Monthly Archives: September 2011

A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities

The London School of Economics and Political Science’ s e Impact of Social Sciences Project have just produced a Twitter Guide for Academics: Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities It’s available under a Creative Commons license. Quoting … Continue reading

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What is digital literacy?

As work progresses, I thought it would be useful to post a defintion of digital literacy. The new JISC guide “Emerging Practice in a Digital Age” defines digital literacy “as those capabilities which equip an individual for living, learning and working … Continue reading

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JISC Visiting the Digitally Ready

Lots of ideas and enthusiasm were shared between the project team at Reading and Sarah Knight and Paul Bailey from JISC yesterday. After the project overview (Digitally Ready Overview) by Shirley and myself, the introductions revealed the breadth of experience and interest in Digital Literacies among … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities at Reading

The grouping Digital Humanities at Reading are a group of people who are working in areas where humanities and computing meet. People in this group have different sets of skills they need to be Digitally Ready to many others round … Continue reading

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Digital Communities

We are trying to identify different Digital Communities around the University of Reading (look for our blog category Digital Community). If you know of a community here at University of Reading that has some interest in things digital let us … Continue reading

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Mobile resources

A couple of mobile sites that are handy for University of Reading people: The library has gone mobile friendly. Read all about it on their website or visit their mobile friendly site. UniApp is an app made by Reading students for Reading … Continue reading

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Digital Heroes?

It was suggested today that as part of the Digitally Ready project we should have an occasional series on University of Reading people who are using digital technologies in interesting ways. This will allow us to share best practice. So … Continue reading

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Emerging Practice in a Digital Age: new JISC guide launched at ALT-C

We’re very excited by the publication of a new guide in the well-received JISC Effective Practice series, Emerging Practice in a Digital Age, launched at ALT-C in Leeds last week. The guide explores ways institutions can respond to the opportunities … Continue reading

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Digitally Connected Colleges

There is an interesting article on Mashable entitled “How Digitally Connected Are the U.S. News Top 20 Colleges?”. They have taken a list of top colleges produced in the normal ranking manner (costs, class size, retention etc) and given their … Continue reading

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RUMobile

A group of our students are setting out to create the Reading University Mobile Development Society (RUMobile). They have a FaceBook page that you can like to show your support.  

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