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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Building up Blackboard – showing what our VLE can do
After a year abroad in Austria I’m now back in Reading and involved with the Digitally Ready project once again! I wrote a blog post before about the work I did with Cindy Becker on online placement support – Digitally … Continue reading
UROP – Investigating Student Communications and the Transition into Higher Education
Hello, I’m Jodie, a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Placement) intern evaluating how effectively the University of Reading communicates with new students during the ‘transition period’ into Higher Education. Working alongside Sophie Harrison, who is undertaking a Reading Internship Scheme Project, … Continue reading
Videos with philosophy students
Molly Knight, Alex Gregory and I have been making videos with some students in the Philosophy Department, supported by the Digitally Ready Small Projects fund. One video is designed to tell prospective students a little about what it’s like to … Continue reading
The HEA Humanities Conference, 2013
MCN HEA conference T&L presentation I was recently invited to give a paper at the national HEA humanities conference in Brighton, entitled ‘Storyville’. I spoke on my use of digital modelling in the Classics curriculum – a pdf of … Continue reading
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Digitally Ready, a retrospective
In October 2011 I drafted a brief description of my digital education interests for this blog (when it was just starting) but didn’t get to the point where I wanted to publish it. Looking back over the two years of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resources
Tagged Alastair Culham, Claudia Bernardini, Climate change and Gardening, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, Double Coconut, Facebook, Justin Groves, Matthew Nicholls, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Biological Sciences, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
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Construction Chat
A reflection by Conor O’Connor, Reading graduate The Construction Chat summer school here at Reading is the first project of its kind. Set up by myself and Ashley Davidson, our goal at Construction Chat is to inspire more school children … Continue reading
Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool
I’ve been at Reading University for quite a long time now. Arriving at Reading fresh from my PhD, during which I managed my research data and wrote my thesis using a Sinclair QL (with optional disk drive), I told my … Continue reading
Digitally ready – a report into digital literacy in the Part 1 Classics course
I have used Digitally Ready funds to experiment with capturing lecture audio (https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready/2013/06/11/2685/). I also commissioned a report into Digital Paedagogy in Classics. It seems to me that we expect fairly high levels of digital literacy without systematically equipping our … Continue reading
UROP Placement: How much is too much for Social Media?
Almost every student has a Facebook or Twitter account that is usually used to maintain and organise their personal and social lives but we want to know just how important digital literacy is. Digital Literacy can be defined as the … Continue reading
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Pharmacy students and e-books: conclusions
Regular readers of this blog may remember previous posts on my Digitally Ready funded project that looked into the use of e-books by Pharmacy students. This project has now been completed. Faiza AbRahman, a PhD student from the Education department … Continue reading