Monthly Archives: July 2012

Research update: Digital literacies for student employability

This summer, the Digitally Ready project team are carrying out a research study to find out how effective our work placements are at helping students become digitally ready for the future. Our fabulous work placement student Rachel Glover has been … Continue reading

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Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice

This one-day event took place on 19 July and brought together staff with an interest in using digital technologies in innovative ways, to share good practice and encourage discussion around digital issues (full programme). Organised by the Digitally Ready project team, the … Continue reading

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‘Sharing Good Practice’ event: conversations and observations

The ‘Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice’ day celebrated some of the great work that is being done and the culture of innovation which enables it, in various areas across the University. There was so much to get … Continue reading

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Digitally Ready: celebrating the project’s achievements

We are all looking forward to our celebration event today – ‘Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice’. The programme is packed with three parallel ‘show & tell’ sessions, networking, and discussions. Our experts including our Digital Heroes will be there … Continue reading

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Digital Heroes: Building a digital community

The Digitally Ready team at Reading is proud to celebrate the University’s Digital Heroes – those who have put themselves at the forefront of digital developments, embracing the new possibilities that technology offers, to achieve more in our work here at … Continue reading

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Undergraduate student Rachel joins the Digitally Ready team

Hello everyone! My name is Rachel Glover. I am happy to have now started my long-awaited placement working in the Centre for the Development of Teaching and Learning on the project, Digitally Ready. I will be looking into how work placements … Continue reading

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Digitally Ready at the JISC Teaching and Learning Experts Meeting 11/07/12

We had the opportunity to present our project to the JISC Experts meeting yeserday along with the other project in our cluster. Following on form a short pitch, Pat and I talked about the project and the various interventions at … Continue reading

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RU Digitally Ready, at HEA conference 2012

This week was the HEA conference in Manchester.  I was presenting a Digital Literacies workshop, called RU Digitally Ready? The theme for the conference was Great Expectations, something which I believe sums up the potential mindset of our incoming students … Continue reading

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