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Category Archives: Digital community

08Nov/11

Copyright awareness

November 8, 2011Digital community, Employability, Staff-student partnerships, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Copyright, Copyright Girl, Emily GoodhandAlastair Culham

Working through the unpublished draft student blogs in Whiteknights biodiversity with Jonathan Mitchley this morning we found that 75% of the students used images that were either other people’s copyright, did notRead More…

06Nov/11

Digital literacy in the Wilderness

November 6, 2011Digital community, Dissemination, Employability, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham, Blogging, Whiteknights BiodiversityAlastair Culham

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with my colleague, Jonathan Mitchley, to guide an MSc group of 24 students thorugh the writing of their first blog on the Whiteknights biodiversityRead More…

03Nov/11

Interesting conversations

November 3, 2011Digital community, Employability, Research

I’ve recently been involved in some interesting conversations about digital literacies and how people go about acquiring them. All these have one key element in common, which I will draw out atRead More…

03Nov/11

Provision of new services/Changes in digital services

November 3, 2011Digital communityCommissioning

Maria and I had a useful meeting with Helen and Ruth from the library the other day. The library already provides a lot of literacy and digital literacy training, of course, andRead More…

17Oct/11

Getting a feel …

October 17, 2011Digital community, Research

We have been engaging in some observation and informal semi-structured interviews, which we have been documenting as part of our work towards a strategy for ascertaining a baseline view of digital skillsRead More…

17Oct/11

Looking at NUS charter for tech compared to Digitally Ready view

October 17, 2011Digital community, Researchdigital literacy, Review

In my last post, I reproduced the charter the NUS has produced on Technology in Higher Education. This post will look in a bit more detail at the ways the Digitally ReadyRead More…

17Oct/11

NUS Charter on Technology in HE

October 17, 2011Digital community, Research

The NUS reported that it published a Charter on Technology in Higher Education on 3rd August 2011. This is a timely contribution, especially from the perspective of the Digitally Ready project. I’llRead More…

The first blog from the new crop of MSc Plant Diversity students appeared today in Whiteknights biodiversity. It’s a short blog on a gall seen on a creeping thistle. What is interesting to me is that I haven’t yet trained the students in how to use the blogging system – that’s incorporated into Monday’s teaching. I have one student at least with some innate digital literacy.

14Oct/11

Whiteknights Biodiversity, a young blog for an old green space

October 14, 2011Digital community, Dissemination, Social media, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham, Blogging, Blogs, Ruth Harris, Whiteknights BiodiversityAlastair Culham

Whiteknights campus includes some outstanding green spaces that attract students to make Reading their university of choice. Scattered on shelves, in filing cabinets on computer disks, and sitting in brains, are piecesRead More…

13Oct/11

Digital Literacies and the AAAR model for personalising learning

October 13, 2011Digital community, Dissemination, Employability, Research

There are many aspects to the Digitally Ready project. We have a diverse set of people who the project seeks to help, across a range of different Faculties, Schools and Departments. InRead More…

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Category Archives: Digital community

Copyright awareness

Interesting conversations

Provision of new services/Changes in digital services

Getting a feel …

Looking at NUS charter for tech compared to Digitally Ready view

NUS Charter on Technology in HE

Digital Literacies and the AAAR model for personalising learning