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Category Archives: Staff-student partnerships
Digital Literacy: Engaging the Public with Science
My third year research project involved the utilisation of blogs as a platform for science communication. I studied ground spider assemblages on campus with the aim to engage the public with a sometimes misunderstood or mistreated group of organisms. After … Continue reading
Digital Literacy: A Tool For Professional Development
During the course of my undergraduate research project, I undertook in the writing and development of many online blog entries, which were aimed at engaging readers with bird species and other scientific information (Blog entries found here:http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/whiteknightsbiodiversity/author/thomaswhitlock/). Over the course … Continue reading
Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned
Over the 2012/13 academic year I undertook a dissertation project titled “Biodiversity on the Web: Developing tools and data delivery for campus biodiversity knowledge”. As a part of the project I worked closely with Alastair Culham and several other students … Continue reading
Digital recording of lectures in a first year Classics course
I was recently awarded a Digitally Ready grant to experiment with digital audio recording of lectures in Classics. This is a topic of some interest within the University as a whole, with thought being given to audio and video capture, … Continue reading
Student Researchers from the department of Art to present at RAISE 2013 (by Christine Ellison)
As we continue to develop OSCAR the online student community in Art our students are becoming more involved and more integral to the development of the project. Together we are researching innovative ways to integrate the social network, designed to … Continue reading
Digitally Ready for employability: online placement support
I have been involved in the Digitally Ready project here at Reading since June 2012, working with Dr. Lucinda (Cindy) Becker, Placement Tutor in the Department of English Language and Literature, to improve the information available to English Literature students about academic … Continue reading
Posted in Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Blackboard (VLE), CampusPack, Centre for the Development of Teaching & Learning (CDoTL), Cindy Becker, Content Management System, Content Management System (CMS), Dropbox, GIMP, Nadja Guggi, School of Literature and Languages, Simon Hyslop, Wikis
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My success at the Digitally Ready showcase
As you have picked up from the title, the recent Show & TEL event on ‘Progress with Digitally Ready’ was a success for me! I was excited to find out more about other projects here at the University of Reading that … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Blackboard (VLE), British American Tobacco, Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework, Nadja Guggi, Sam Holton, School of Biological Sciences, Show & TEL: Progress with Digitally Ready, Tee Nadan
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From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal with professional work in a staged and supervised way, … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Gerry Leonidas, Jake Giltsoff, Real Jobs scheme, Rob Banham, Robbie Sterlini, WordPress
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