Videos with philosophy students
Molly Knight, Alex Gregory and I have been making videos with some students in the Philosophy Department, supported by the Digitally Ready Small Projects fund. One video is designed to tell prospectiveRead More…
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…
Construction Chat
A reflection by Conor O’Connor, Reading graduate The Construction Chat summer school here at Reading is the first project of its kind. Set up by myself and Ashley Davidson, our goal atRead More…
Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool
I’ve been at Reading University for quite a long time now. Arriving at Reading fresh from my PhD, during which I managed my research data and wrote my thesis using a SinclairRead More…
Partners in curriculum change: Digitally Ready at the Annual Higher Education Academy Conference, 3-4 July 2013
The theme of this year’s conference was Powerful partnerships: defining the learning experience, with three strands: students as partners; employers as partners; and organisations as partners. The conference was packed with very interestingRead More…
Digital Literacy: Engaging the Public with Science
My third year research project involved the utilisation of blogs as a platform for science communication. I studied ground spider assemblages on campus with the aim to engage the public with aRead More…
Student Researchers from the department of Art to present at RAISE 2013 (by Christine Ellison)
As we continue to develop OSCAR the online student community in Art our students are becoming more involved and more integral to the development of the project. Together we are researching innovativeRead More…
Digitally Ready: a launchpad for digital developments at Reading
Sir David Bell KCB, University Vice-Chancellor here at Reading, spoke at last week’s event to mark how far Reading has come in digital terms, ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’. His ‘view fromRead More…
Digitally Ready: Recognising the importance of support networks in developing Teaching & Learning
Digitally Ready is delighted to welcome Stefanie Anyadi and Clive Young of the The Digital Department, our partner project based at University College London (UCL), who will be visiting Reading on 13Read 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…