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 withRead More…
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 2: BSc Honors Projects
One of the challenges with undergraduate projects is to give the student experience of publishing their work. Sometimes a project fits part of a larger research area and the student gets coRead 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…
Celebrating ‘digital’ at Reading
We still have a few places available for our showcase event ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’ which will take place next Monday, 15 April 11.00 am to 2.30 pm. As the DigitallyRead More…
From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal withRead More…
Making assessment count
The Digitally Ready team are delighted to welcome Gunter Saunders, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Westminster, and Peter Chatterton, Visiting Professor in the Learning and Teaching Institute at theRead More…
Blogging to the world
Blogging is about communication. Some time ago I used the Word Press Jetpack statistics to check that one of the blogs I was writing had readers (Tropical Biodiversity) but recently the WordRead More…
The sincerest form of flattery
Our Teaching & Learning Showcase Series continued yesterday with a session on ‘Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin’. Turnitin is an online service which allows educators to check students’ work forRead More…