31Jan/13

Do you want to be in my movie?

January 31, 2013VideoTee Nadan, Video

My sheer amount of challenges with regards to recording started last year when I had the opportunity to take up a two-day video course delivered by Be Inspired Films here at theRead More…

27Jan/13

Enterprise social networking: Caring, climbing, campaigning

January 27, 2013Digital communityBeehive, Beth Brownholtz, Casey Dugan, David R. Millen, Enterprise Social Networking (ESN), Facebook, Helen Setchell, IBM, Joan DiMicco, Michael Muller, Nadja Guggi, Werner Geyer, Yammer

Here at Reading we have been trialling enterprise social networking service Yammer since the start of the new year. Head of Web and New Media Helen Setchell who is a member ofRead More…

16Jan/13

New Teaching & Learning Showcase series

January 16, 2013Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Small project funding schemeAugmented Reality (AR), Closing the feedback loop, David Nutt, Department of Chemistry, Department of Classics, Digital modelling, Flipped classroom, Inclusive practices in teaching learning and assessment, Matthew Nicholls, Milan Radosavljevic, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning

We are kicking off the new year with another round of Teaching & Learning Showcase events here at Reading, starting next week with a session on the ‘Use of technologies in TeachingRead More…

14Jan/13

OPEN Project at Aberdeen

January 14, 2013Employability, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placementsHigher Education Academy (HEA), Online Presence Employability Network (OPEN), Shirley Williams, University of Aberdeen

There is a very interesting project starting up at Aberdeen, below is a bit from their introduction: ‘Online Presence, Employability, Network (OPEN) is a novel project supported by the Higher Education AcademyRead More…

11Jan/13

Enhancing Fieldwork Learning

January 11, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Technology in fieldworkAlice Mauchline, Enhancing Fieldwork Learning, Geography Earth Environmental and Biosciences (GEES), Geotagging, iPad, Julian Park, School of Agriculture Policy and Development

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, whichRead More…

10Jan/13

Me on the digital battlefield

January 10, 2013Internationalisation, Small project funding schemeArticulate Engage, Articulate Storyline, Flexible Learning, Internationalisation Change Programme (ICP), Kimberley Watson, Modular Training for Industry, PyMOL, Sam Holton, School of Biological Sciences, Simon Sweeney, Students’ experiences with placements and opportunities for developing their digital literacies at the University, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Tee Nadan, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)

To introduce myself, I am Sam Holton, a second- year student in the School of Biological Sciences here at Reading. Christmas and New Year are over and being the ambitious student IRead More…

10Jan/13

Making assessment count

January 10, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Eventse-Reflect, Gunter Saunders, Making Assessment Count (MAC), Nadja Guggi, Peter Chatterton

The Digitally Ready team are delighted to welcome Gunter Saunders, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Westminster, and Peter Chatterton, Visiting Professor in the Learning and Teaching Institute at theRead More…

07Jan/13

Internationalisation: where to for HE institutions?

January 7, 2013Dissemination, Employability, Internationalisation, Meetings & Events, Small project funding schemeBologna Process, Higher Education Academy (HEA), Internationalisation Change Programme (ICP), Kimberley Watson, Simon Sweeney, Tee Nadan

Who says internationalisation in HE inevitably refers to resources and technologies. In this new digital era, to be competitive as a HE institution we have to keep up to date with educationalRead More…

05Jan/13

Blogging to the world

January 5, 2013Assessment & Feedback, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Jetpack, readershipAlastair Culham

Blogging is about communication. Some time ago I used the Word Press Jetpack statistics to check that one of the blogs I was writing had readers (Tropical Biodiversity) but recently the WordRead More…

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