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Category Archives: Assessment & Feedback
Building up Blackboard – showing what our VLE can do
After a year abroad in Austria I’m now back in Reading and involved with the Digitally Ready project once again! I wrote a blog post before about the work I did with Cindy Becker on online placement support – Digitally … Continue reading
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 2: BSc Honors Projects
One of the challenges with undergraduate projects is to give the student experience of publishing their work. Sometimes a project fits part of a larger research area and the student gets co authorship of a paper. Three years ago one … Continue reading
Digital Literacy: A Tool For Professional Development
During the course of my undergraduate research project, I undertook in the writing and development of many online blog entries, which were aimed at engaging readers with bird species and other scientific information (Blog entries found here:http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/whiteknightsbiodiversity/author/thomaswhitlock/). Over the course … Continue reading
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments
Blogging has become one of the major means of communicating just about anything. It allows more development of thought than a tweet or Facebook post and is a logical development of the traditional form of published essays. I’ve been experimenting … Continue reading
Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned
Over the 2012/13 academic year I undertook a dissertation project titled “Biodiversity on the Web: Developing tools and data delivery for campus biodiversity knowledge”. As a part of the project I worked closely with Alastair Culham and several other students … Continue reading
From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal with professional work in a staged and supervised way, … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Gerry Leonidas, Jake Giltsoff, Real Jobs scheme, Rob Banham, Robbie Sterlini, WordPress
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Making assessment count
The Digitally Ready team are delighted to welcome Gunter Saunders, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Westminster, and Peter Chatterton, Visiting Professor in the Learning and Teaching Institute at the University of Hertfordshire who will be leading a … Continue reading
Blogging to the world
Blogging is about communication. Some time ago I used the Word Press Jetpack statistics to check that one of the blogs I was writing had readers (Tropical Biodiversity) but recently the Word Press stats tools for blogs have gone through … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination
Tagged Alastair Culham, Jetpack, readership
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The sincerest form of flattery
Our Teaching & Learning Showcase Series continued yesterday with a session on ‘Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin’. Turnitin is an online service which allows educators to check students’ work for similarity with other sources as a tool for … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Misconduct, Academic Writing, Blackboard (VLE), Department of English Literature, Helen Hathaway, Institute of Education, Julia Waters, Kim Shahabudin, Mary Morrissey, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, Plagiarism, Sara Broad, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Systems Engineering, Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin, Sparknotes, Study Advice, Sub-Committee on Academic Misconduct (SCAM), Teaching & Learning Showcase events, The use of Turnitin in Teaching & Learning, Turnitin, University of Reading Library, Virginie Ruiz, What did I do wrong?, Wikipedia
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