Category Archives: Technology in fieldwork

Digitally Ready, a retrospective

In October 2011 I drafted a brief description of my digital education interests for this blog (when it was just starting) but didn’t get to the point where I wanted to publish it.  Looking back over the two years of … Continue reading

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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

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Enhancing Fieldwork Learning

The University of Reading is part of a three-year Higher Education Academy (HEA)-funded project considering the use of technology in fieldwork to enhance student learning: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning. The project team, which includes Alice Mauchline and Julian Park from the School … Continue reading

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Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs

The second part of my research into digital literacies for student employability has focussed on in-curricular placements here at Reading. Every undergraduate programme now has an embedded placement option. The ‘Skirts’ model includes maxi, mini and micro placements. A maxi … Continue reading

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What should we be teaching our students?

Archaeology and Digital Technology: The Old and the New Archaeology then … In 2006 Oxford Archaeology, one of the largest independent archaeology practices in Europe, was the 2nd biggest employer of ALL University of Reading students – and a sizeable percentage … Continue reading

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A digitally prepared project

The UROP placement to further develop the Whiteknights Biodiversity web presence has been funded.  This project falls well within the bounds of our Digitally Ready project and I am hoping Pat will be able to conduct a before and after … Continue reading

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Digital literacy in the Wilderness

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with my colleague, Jonathan Mitchley, to guide an MSc group of 24 students thorugh the writing of their first blog on the Whiteknights biodiversity site.  The rather ambitious setting of an assessed … Continue reading

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The first blog from the new crop of MSc Plant Diversity students appeared today in Whiteknights biodiversity.  It’s a short blog on a gall seen on a creeping thistle.  What is interesting to me is that I haven’t yet trained … Continue reading

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Whiteknights Biodiversity, a young blog for an old green space

Whiteknights campus includes some outstanding green spaces that attract students to make Reading their university of choice.  Scattered on shelves, in filing cabinets on computer disks, and sitting in brains,  are pieces of research by staff and students recording the … Continue reading

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