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Category Archives: Dissemination
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 in their use of digital technologies, I quickly found … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Training & resources, Work/Academic placements
Tagged 'Sharing Good Practice' event, Academic Practice Programme (APP), Centre for Staff Training and Development (CSTD), Digital Development Forum (DDF), Digital Development Team, Julian Park, Letters to Santa, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Rachel Glover, Sir David Bell KCB, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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Hatchpath revisited
An email this week from Hatchpath telling me that around 10% of our UG stduents had signed up for it led me to look at some of the large part 1 modules in Biological Sciences to check the usage.
Show & TEL: Making technology-enhanced learning work in HE
Neil Morris, author of Study Skills Connected, a new book on using technology to support Teaching & Learning, visited Reading last week to speak about ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education’ as part of our … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research
Tagged Audio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Discussion boards, Independent study, Interactive chat, iPad, Julian Park, Lecture capture, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, NMC Horizon Report, Open Educational Resources (OERs), Plymouth University, Social media, Steve Wheeler, Student engagement, Student response systems, Study Skills Connected, Tablet devices, Teaching & Learning Seminar, University of Leeds, Video, VLE
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The sincerest form of flattery
http://youtu.be/6OjCAq5u-TQ 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 for similarity with other sources as a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Training & resources
Tagged Academic Misconduct, Academic Writing, Blackboard (VLE), Department of English Literature, Helen Hathaway, Institute of Education, Julia Waters, Kim Shahabudin, Mary Morrissey, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, Plagiarism, Sara Broad, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Systems Engineering, Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin, Sparknotes, Study Advice, Sub-Committee on Academic Misconduct (SCAM), Teaching & Learning Showcase events, The use of Turnitin in Teaching & Learning, Turnitin, University of Reading Library, Virginie Ruiz, What did I do wrong?, Wikipedia
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Hatchpath: University of Reading is launch site for new collaborative software
I’ve just stumbled across http://hatchpath.com, a site for student exchange of information on their modules. It seems to have very smooth and intuitive tools for information sharing and strikes me as quite Facebook-like in its approach to making things easy. … Continue reading
Posted in Digital community, Dissemination
Tagged Alastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE), Collaborative platform, Facebook, Hatchpath, iPad, Spark, Wikis
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Placement showcase: Rachel Glover
Subscribers of this blog will have followed the adventures of our placement student, the fabulous Rachel Glover, who has been working with us since June on the student employability aspects of the Digitally Ready project. Rachel has now started her … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Assessing work placements, Department of Politics & International Relations, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Experiences with Digital Literacies, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Sir David Bell KCB, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), Video
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Digital literacies for student employability: Spotlight on work placements
Rachel and I were invited to speak at the Teaching & Learning Showcase on ‘Assessing work placements’ here at Reading yesterday. The showcase events are a series of informal lunchtime gatherings which provide an opportunity for colleagues to share T & … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Assessing work placements, Cindy Becker, Department of English Literature, Developing Effective E-Learning: The Development Pyramid, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Hannah Jones, Helen Beetham, Joy Collier, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, Rhona Sharpe, School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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Placement showcase: Carrie Philp
Continuing my placement showcase series, I interviewed Carrie Philp about her experiences during her UROP placement and how she used social media to recruit students for her project. A third year Psychology student, Carrie, who only heard about the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Careers Placements Experience Centre, Carrie Philp, Employability Ambassadors, Newcastle University, Rachel Glover, RAISE, School of Psychology &Clinical Language Sciences, Sir David Bell KCB
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Developing students’ digital skills through placements – Maximising student engagement
I have previously blogged about my trip to ALT-C in Manchester. In the same week I went to the RAISE Conference in Southampton. The Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement day was my first opportunity to speak about some of … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Developing students’ digital skills through placements, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Student employability, Student engagement, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), University of Southampton
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Placement showcase: Chelsea Zahra
Over the summer, we have been in the fortunate position to be able to employ a number of students on Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme placements. You may have seen a number of posts from Rachel Glover, who has been working … Continue reading