Digitally Ready, a retrospective
In October 2011 I drafted a brief description of my digital education interests for this blog (when it was just starting) but didn’t get to the point where I wanted to publishRead 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…
Rendez vous with my digital skills
When I started on the small project funded by the DR team, little did I know what I would learn in the process. From a digital angle, the aim was to highlightRead More…
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments
Blogging has become one of the major means of communicating just about anything. It allows more development of thought than a tweet or Facebook post and is a logical development of theRead More…
Student placement abroad – A case study in Hong Kong
Thanks to the small project funded by the Digitally Ready project, I have been able to conduct my first interview with a student earlier this year. And Tee has very kindly taughtRead More…
(Video) Lessons learnt the hard way last forever
Hello, I am Katerina Lazidou, a research student working on a small project funded by the Digitally Ready team. This small project is being conducted for the School of Biological Sciences hereRead More…
Academic publishing and interviewing: first steps
I took my first steps into the world of academic writing and publishing last week when my supervisor informed me that we are going to submit my work on the Modular TrainingRead More…
Me on the digital battlefield
To introduce myself, I am Sam Holton, a second- year student in the School of Biological Sciences here at Reading. Christmas and New Year are over and being the ambitious student IRead More…
Internationalisation: where to for HE institutions?
Who says internationalisation in HE inevitably refers to resources and technologies. In this new digital era, to be competitive as a HE institution we have to keep up to date with educationalRead More…