Rendez vous with my digital skills
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 highlightRead More…
Digital Literacy: Engaging the Public with Science
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 aRead More…
Digital Literacy: A Tool For Professional Development
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 scientificRead More…
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments
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 theRead More…
Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned
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 workedRead More…
Student placement abroad – A case study in Hong Kong
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 taughtRead More…
Digital recording of lectures in a first year Classics course
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, withRead More…
Student Researchers from the department of Art to present at RAISE 2013 (by Christine Ellison)
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 innovativeRead More…