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Category Archives: Research
Taking on the role of Student Communications Intern
During the summer of 2013 I have taken on the role of Student Communications Intern. Working for Richard Sandford, Student Communications Officer, and alongside UROP student, Jodie Hitch, I am beginning to find my way around the rather complex world … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged communication, internship, paper, print, project, Social media, Sophie Harrison, student, UROP
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UROP – Investigating Student Communications and the Transition into Higher Education
Hello, I’m Jodie, a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Placement) intern evaluating how effectively the University of Reading communicates with new students during the ‘transition period’ into Higher Education. Working alongside Sophie Harrison, who is undertaking a Reading Internship Scheme Project, … Continue reading
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 modelling in the Classics curriculum – a pdf of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Research
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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 publish it. Looking back over the two years of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resources
Tagged Alastair Culham, Claudia Bernardini, Climate change and Gardening, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, Double Coconut, Facebook, Justin Groves, Matthew Nicholls, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Biological Sciences, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
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Digitally ready – a report into digital literacy in the Part 1 Classics course
I have used Digitally Ready funds to experiment with capturing lecture audio (https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready/2013/06/11/2685/). I also commissioned a report into Digital Paedagogy in Classics. It seems to me that we expect fairly high levels of digital literacy without systematically equipping our … Continue reading
UROP Placement: How much is too much for Social Media?
Almost every student has a Facebook or Twitter account that is usually used to maintain and organise their personal and social lives but we want to know just how important digital literacy is. Digital Literacy can be defined as the … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Research, Social media
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Pharmacy students and e-books: conclusions
Regular readers of this blog may remember previous posts on my Digitally Ready funded project that looked into the use of e-books by Pharmacy students. This project has now been completed. Faiza AbRahman, a PhD student from the Education department … Continue reading
Digitally Ready ‘Sensors, circuits and sculpture’, Kate Allen (Art) and Nic Hollinworth (Systems Engineering)
Interactive sensory objects made for and by people with learning disabilities, www.sensoryobjects.com is a three year AHRC funded research project which explores the potential of newly developed easy-to-use electronics in making the experience of members of the user-group more vital and … Continue reading
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 2: BSc Honors Projects
One of the challenges with undergraduate projects is to give the student experience of publishing their work. Sometimes a project fits part of a larger research area and the student gets co authorship of a paper. Three years ago one … Continue reading
Sneak preview: Digitally Ready at PELeCON
I am writing this en route en to Devon where I will be presenting a paper on ‘Digital literacies and work placements’ at Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) tomorrow morning. As I was getting my thoughts together for the talk … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Careers Placements Experience Centre, Developing Effective E-Learning: The Development Pyramid, Digital literacies and work placements, Helen Beetham, Nadja Guggi, Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON), Rachel Glover, Reading Internship Scheme (RIS), Rhona Sharpe, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
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