Monthly Archives: June 2013

Rendez vous with my digital skills

Posted on June 29, 2013 by

When I started on the small project funded by the DR team, little did I know what I would learn in the process. From a digital angle, the aim was to highlight digital skills and needs in an internationalisation/employability related … Continue reading →

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Digital Literacy: Engaging the Public with Science

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Top Cat

My third year research project involved the utilisation of blogs as a platform for science communication. I studied ground spider assemblages on campus with the aim to engage the public with a sometimes misunderstood or mistreated group of organisms. After … Continue reading →

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Digital Literacy: A Tool For Professional Development

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Thomas Whitlock

During the course of my undergraduate research project, I undertook in the writing and development of many online blog entries, which were aimed at engaging readers with bird species and other scientific information (Blog entries found here:http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/whiteknightsbiodiversity/author/thomaswhitlock/). Over the course … Continue reading →

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Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Alastair Culham

Blogging has become one of the major means of communicating just about anything.  It allows more development of thought than a tweet or Facebook post and is a logical development of the traditional form of published essays.  I’ve been experimenting … Continue reading →

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Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Conor Haugh

Over the 2012/13 academic year I undertook a dissertation project titled “Biodiversity on the Web: Developing tools and data delivery for campus biodiversity knowledge”. As a part of the project I worked closely with Alastair Culham and several other students … Continue reading →

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Student placement abroad – A case study in Hong Kong

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

Thanks to the small project funded by the Digitally Ready project, I have been able to conduct my first interview with a student earlier this year. And Tee has very kindly taught me how to use Adobe Premiere Elements and … Continue reading →

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Digital recording of lectures in a first year Classics course

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

I was recently awarded a Digitally Ready grant to experiment with digital audio recording of lectures in Classics. This is a topic of some interest within the University as a whole, with thought being given to audio and video capture, … Continue reading →

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Student Researchers from the department of Art to present at RAISE 2013 (by Christine Ellison)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

As we continue to develop OSCAR the online student community in Art our students are becoming more involved and more integral to the development of the project. Together we are researching innovative ways to integrate the social network, designed to … Continue reading →

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