Digital dissent
I follow several electronic newsgroups to ensure I stay at the front of my research interests. The ever challenging issue of science on Wikipedia cropped up today with an unusually heated debateRead More…
Peer learning – Google Scholar Citations
This afternoon one of those serendipitous conversations happened that allowed me to add another online profile to my digital presence; Google Scholar now offer individual academic profiles that update automatically, can beRead More…
Saint or sinner?
We’ ve been hearing a lot recently about the need for a code of practice to guide our students in their use of web 2.0 and social media when part of their learningRead More…
Digital Literacy elements of PELeCON ’12
Last week, I attended the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference, or PELeCON for short. I want to summarise the bits I felt most relevant to ‘digital literacy’ here, on the Digitally Ready blog.Read More…
Evaluation, adaptability and meta-evaluation
(Adapted from the Agile software development poster) As part of the Digitally Ready project, we have recognised that the digital landscape (i.e. the tools, software and systems available and in use) isRead More…
Meeting Exeter Cascade’s Interns
Over the last couple of days we have been meeting with the other projects in our ‘cluster’ funded by the JISC’s Developing Digital Literacies programme; Bath’s Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE),Read More…
‘Digitally Ready for the Future’ workshop: Time to develop digitally?
The Digitally Ready team recently invited staff and students to a workshop to explore and reflect on their own digital literacies, using a pyramid model developed by Beetham and Sharpe (2008). WeRead More…
Digital Navigation
While shopping on the internet for resources to develop or tropical teaching glasshouse over the past few weeks I began to realise how much a matter of personal taste the website design forRead More…
Letters to Santa: Communication and information
Thank you for your lovely letter. I am sorry to hear that you find it hard to find out what support is available. Santa has asked me to say that he thinksRead More…
Letters to Santa: Context aware systems, and info-overload management tools
Hi – Santa says thank you so much for using his more formal mode of address! Something the elves here have thought about occasionally is a system like a spam filter, butRead More…