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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Digital Community: Art at Reading launches OSCAR
Art at Reading has a new digital platform to connect staff and students. OSCAR, the Online Studio Community at Reading, has been developed to support the vast range of teaching and learning activities that happen across studio modules in Art, within the … Continue reading
Hatchpath revisited
An email this week from Hatchpath telling me that around 10% of our UG stduents had signed up for it led me to look at some of the large part 1 modules in Biological Sciences to check the usage.
Show & TEL: Making technology-enhanced learning work in HE
Neil Morris, author of Study Skills Connected, a new book on using technology to support Teaching & Learning, visited Reading last week to speak about ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education’ as part of our … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research
Tagged Audio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Discussion boards, Independent study, Interactive chat, iPad, Julian Park, Lecture capture, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, NMC Horizon Report, Open Educational Resources (OERs), Plymouth University, Social media, Steve Wheeler, Student engagement, Student response systems, Study Skills Connected, Tablet devices, Teaching & Learning Seminar, University of Leeds, Video, VLE
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Using colour coding on Outlook to organise emails, appointments and task lists
Managing emails, to-do lists and calendar appointments is an office skill which more and more people are finding they need to develop as an increasing amount of our working lives is spent fielding queries and chasing up tasks from behind … Continue reading
The sincerest form of flattery
http://youtu.be/6OjCAq5u-TQ 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Training & resources
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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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
Posted in Digital Heroes, Employability, Research, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Amanda Clarke, Berkshire Primary Care Trust, Department of Archaeology, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Kindle, Michelle Brooks, Paragon Community Housing, Rachel Glover, Real Jobs scheme, Richard Johnson, Sam Winslet, Silchester
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