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 modellingRead More…
Digital recording of lectures in a first year Classics course
I was recently awarded a Digitally Ready grant to experiment with digital audio recording of lectures in Classics. This is a topic of some interest within the University as a whole, withRead More…
Digital Hero, Dr Matthew Nichols, on BBC 4
One of our Digital Heros, Dr Matthew Nichols, is contributing to a BBC 4 series that looks at the colourful careers of the women behind the throne in ancient Rome, and its subtitle,Read More…
New Teaching & Learning Showcase series
We are kicking off the new year with another round of Teaching & Learning Showcase events here at Reading, starting next week with a session on the ‘Use of technologies in TeachingRead More…
Digitally Ready for 2013
In attempting to write this blog post to sum up what 2012 has meant for Digitally Ready, the JISC-funded project here at the University of Reading to support staff and students inRead More…
Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs
The second part of my research into digital literacies for student employability has focussed on in-curricular placements here at Reading. Every undergraduate programme now has an embedded placement option. The ‘Skirts’ modelRead More…
‘Sharing Good Practice’ event: Rebuilding the ancient world, digitally
One of the speakers at our recent ‘Sharing Good Practice’ event was Dr Matthew Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, who has been combining ancient evidence with 21st-century techniques to create aRead More…
Digital Heroes: Building a digital community
The Digitally Ready team at Reading is proud to celebrate the University’s Digital Heroes – those who have put themselves at the forefront of digital developments, embracing the new possibilities that technology offers,Read More…