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Google Scholar for searching

There are many databases available for academic searching, and there is a list of those available to University of Reading users. Google Scholar is a good overarching tool for searching through a number of these, via the preferences you can … Continue reading

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Online professionalism and Facebook – Falling through the generation gap

Via a tweet I found this recently published article: Osman, A., Wardle, A. & Caesar, R. (2012) Online professionalism and Facebook – Falling through the generation gap. Medical teacher. Available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.668624 Although the survey reported is about medical professionals … Continue reading

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Facebook: Social integration and informal learning experiences

Continuing the theme of using social media, I thought I would give a plug to a project on ‘Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development’ here at the University of Reading. Amongst other things, the project explores the use of Facebook … Continue reading

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… and now for a blog about blogs

Blogs providing a solution for a variety of academic projects. Blogs have been employed for some time within the University by a number of colleagues and more recently these have used as a means of feeding news, events and commentary … Continue reading

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Digital scholarship

Interesting page from Martin Weller on digital scholarship which was the subject of an LSE  seminar yesterday  also delivered online. Description of the seminar taken from a promotional email – “The advent of digital, networked and open technologies is impacting … Continue reading

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Digital literacy vs Information Literacy?

Does an information literate person need to be digitally literate and vice versa? This is me hopefully playing a bit of devil’s advocate here and shamelessly promoting work by Librarians in the field of Information Literacy. Much of the discussion … Continue reading

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Working with partners

 JISC invited 11 sector bodies and professional associations to work in collaboration on supporting activities to realise the benefits from the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme for staff and students in further and higher education and as SCONUL (Society of … Continue reading

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My Favourite Apps

In my job, I often find that sometimes work gets in the way of life, and sometimes life gets in the way of work.  What I mean by this is, sometimes I need to do something during the day but … Continue reading

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Diary Management using Outlook

As his Executive Assistant, I am responsible for ensuring my Director’s time is used in the most effective way possible.  This ranges from trying to plan meetings in the same location on the same day to avoid excessive travelling, ensuring … Continue reading

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Building a social network for scientists

www.afclix.org is the web-portal of the African Climate Exchange project at the UoR Meteorology Department.  Afclix is a social networking site, where each member has a profile, can create collaborative projects with other members and interact with those members in … Continue reading

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