Author Archives: patparslow

About patparslow

I am a researcher in the School of Systems Engineering, working in the fields of social media, digital identity and learning. I have previously worked in IT training/education, land survey, civil engineering, IT support, and as a software engineer.

Meeting Exeter Cascade’s Interns

Posted on March 28, 2012 by patparslow

Over the last couple of days we have been meeting with the other projects in our ‘cluster’ funded by the JISC’s Developing Digital Literacies programme; Bath’s Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE), Oxford Brookes’ Institutional Student ePioneer Partnerships (InStePP) and Exeter’s … Continue reading →

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Vitae runs Digital Researcher event, makes parts available online

Posted on February 16, 2012 by patparslow

Vitae, the UK organisation championing the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff in higher education institutions and research institutes, is running Digital Researcher 2012: an innovative, thought-provoking one day event to help researchers make the most … Continue reading →

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BBC Computer Literacy 2012 – one to keep an eye on

Posted on February 15, 2012 by patparslow

The BBC are, once again, championing greater computer literacy (http://www.bbchelloworld.co.uk/index.html). This is not quite the same as digital literacy, of course, but it does form one (advanced) part of it. If you want to learn to write computer programs, this … Continue reading →

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IT Support as bite-sized learning opportunities

Posted on January 16, 2012 by patparslow

In the dim and distant past, I used to work for a large utility company as Information Systems Support Coordinator for their Engineering department.  My job functions included 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support, IT training, a bit of development … Continue reading →

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Try something new today…

Posted on January 12, 2012 by patparslow

Yesterday I was at a SNOW meeting.  That’s Social Networking and Other Web2.0 Technologies group, for those who haven’t run across the (semi) acronym before.  It is a good opportunity to find out more about the range of engagement with … Continue reading →

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Digital Literacies, schools and the Guardian

Posted on January 11, 2012 by patparslow

This week the Guardian has launched a campaign to promote improved digital literacies (link). This was evidently timed to coincide with Michael Gove’s announcement that the Government are overhauling the provision of ICT teaching in schools. A number of people … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa: Communication and information

Posted on December 31, 2011 by patparslow

Thank you for your lovely letter.  I am sorry to hear that you find it hard to find out what support is available.  Santa has asked me to say that he thinks there are two approaches which we need to … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa: Context aware systems, and info-overload management tools

Posted on December 28, 2011 by patparslow

Hi – Santa says thank you so much for using his more formal mode of address! Something the elves here have thought about occasionally is a system like a spam filter, but used for sorting incoming missives in to the … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa: Reputation, resources and branding

Posted on December 27, 2011 by patparslow

Dear Kirsti, Thank you so much for your letter, which has some great requests in it.  More time to use online resources (or indeed, more time for any number of priorities) is something I am not sure Santa has available … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa: IT training & top down encouragement of social media

Posted on December 26, 2011 by patparslow

Thank you for your interesting letter.  I know that training colleagues can be a time consuming and reward-free task sometimes.  If it isn’t part of your actual role, you need to be careful not to let it interfere with your … Continue reading →

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