Category Archives: Staff-student partnerships

RAISE Conference 2013 -Student Engagement

Posted on October 24, 2013 by

On the 13th September, representatives from the department of Art’s staff/student research group gave a presentation on OSCAR the Online Studio Community for Art at Reading at the annual RAISE conference for student engagement in Nottingham. The presentation received a … Continue reading →

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Getting it right through the Reading Internship Scheme

Posted on September 9, 2013 by

Along with my colleague Nina Brooke I was really delighted to have the opportunity to work with a student this summer through the Reading Internship Scheme, funded by the Digitally Ready project. Simon Hyslop joined us for five weeks with the … Continue reading →

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Student Communications Internship – Remember to speak to your students!

Posted on August 22, 2013 by

So here I am, coming towards the end of my fourth week of my Student Communications Internship.  Last time I blogged I spoke about having a lot of questions to answer and, if anything, I now have even more! Alongside … Continue reading →

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Taking on the role of Student Communications Intern

Posted on August 12, 2013 by

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 →

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Building up Blackboard – showing what our VLE can do

Posted on July 31, 2013 by

After a year abroad in Austria I’m now back in Reading and involved with the Digitally Ready project once again!  I wrote a blog post before about the work I did with Cindy Becker on online placement support – Digitally … Continue reading →

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Digitally Ready, a retrospective

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Alastair Culham

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 →

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Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Alastair Culham

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 Sinclair QL (with optional disk drive), I told my … Continue reading →

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Digitally ready – a report into digital literacy in the Part 1 Classics course

Posted on July 11, 2013 by

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 →

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Pharmacy students and e-books: conclusions

Posted on July 9, 2013 by

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 →

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Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 2: BSc Honors Projects

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Alastair Culham

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 →

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