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Author Archives: Shirley Williams
Digital Communities
We are trying to identify different Digital Communities around the University of Reading (look for our blog category Digital Community). If you know of a community here at University of Reading that has some interest in things digital let us … Continue reading
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Mobile resources
A couple of mobile sites that are handy for University of Reading people: The library has gone mobile friendly. Read all about it on their website or visit their mobile friendly site. UniApp is an app made by Reading students for Reading … Continue reading
Digital Heroes?
It was suggested today that as part of the Digitally Ready project we should have an occasional series on University of Reading people who are using digital technologies in interesting ways. This will allow us to share best practice. So … Continue reading
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Digitally Connected Colleges
There is an interesting article on Mashable entitled “How Digitally Connected Are the U.S. News Top 20 Colleges?”. They have taken a list of top colleges produced in the normal ranking manner (costs, class size, retention etc) and given their … Continue reading
RUMobile
A group of our students are setting out to create the Reading University Mobile Development Society (RUMobile). They have a FaceBook page that you can like to show your support.
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Digital Development Forum Programme Autumn Term (2011-2012)
We are delighted to announce the Digital Development Forum Programme Autumn Term (2011-2012) Please book your sessions via CSTD (these are primarily aimed at staff) Workshop CMS Audio Workshop for publishing audio files onto CMS pages : Paul Janota, ITS … Continue reading
The Growth of Social Media
The Search Engine Journal has an interesting Infographic about the use of social media. It shows a very steep rise in the use of social networking across all age groups from the middle of last decade (the 2000s) to the … Continue reading
The myth of ‘digital native’
Gerald Haigh recently authored a blog post entitled: Open University research explodes myth of ‘digital native’ in which he reviews some ongoing work at the OU on use of digital technologies in distance education. The term ‘digital natives’ comes from … Continue reading
Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy
There is an interesting post on the University of Glamorgan’s Learning Zone blog entitled: “Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy”. It starts as follows: “We often assume that 18-21 year-old students are digital whiz-kids, brilliant at anything to do with computers, … Continue reading
Learn to discern
There is an interesting article in the THES by Frank Webster entitled “Learn to discern” In the article he addresses the idea of computer literacy, and suggests we “lay off the ‘literacy’ metaphor” which in the case of “computer literate” … Continue reading