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Category Archives: Technology in fieldwork

15Jul/13

Digitally Ready, a retrospective

July 15, 2013Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resourcesAlastair 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)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 publishRead More…

01Jul/13

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

July 1, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Digital community, Employability, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldworkAlastair 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 coRead More…

11Jan/13

Enhancing Fieldwork Learning

January 11, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Technology in fieldworkAlice Mauchline, Enhancing Fieldwork Learning, Geography Earth Environmental and Biosciences (GEES), Geotagging, iPad, Julian Park, School of Agriculture Policy and Development

The University of Reading is part of a three-year Higher Education Academy (HEA)-funded project considering the use of technology in fieldwork to enhance student learning: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning. The project team, whichRead More…

08Nov/12

Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs

November 8, 2012Digital Heroes, Employability, Research, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placementsAmanda Clarke, Berkshire Primary Care Trust, Department of Archaeology, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Kindle, Michelle Brooks, Paragon Community Housing, Rachel Glover, Real Jobs scheme, Richard Johnson, Sam Winslet, Silchester

The second part of my research into digital literacies for student employability has focussed on in-curricular placements here at Reading. Every undergraduate programme now has an embedded placement option. The ‘Skirts’ modelRead More…

31Jan/12

What should we be teaching our students?

January 31, 2012Employability, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placementsAmanda Clarke, Silchester

Archaeology and Digital Technology: The Old and the New Archaeology then … In 2006 Oxford Archaeology, one of the largest independent archaeology practices in Europe, was the 2nd biggest employer of ALL UniversityRead More…

18Jan/12

A digitally prepared project

January 18, 2012Employability, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham, Justin Groves, UROP, Whiteknights BiodiversityAlastair Culham

The UROP placement to further develop the Whiteknights Biodiversity web presence has been funded. This project falls well within the bounds of our Digitally Ready project and I am hoping Pat willRead More…

06Nov/11

Digital literacy in the Wilderness

November 6, 2011Digital community, Dissemination, Employability, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham, Blogging, Whiteknights BiodiversityAlastair Culham

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with my colleague, Jonathan Mitchley, to guide an MSc group of 24 students thorugh the writing of their first blog on the Whiteknights biodiversityRead More…

The first blog from the new crop of MSc Plant Diversity students appeared today in Whiteknights biodiversity. It’s a short blog on a gall seen on a creeping thistle. What is interesting to me is that I haven’t yet trained the students in how to use the blogging system – that’s incorporated into Monday’s teaching. I have one student at least with some innate digital literacy.

October 15, 2011

14Oct/11

Whiteknights Biodiversity, a young blog for an old green space

October 14, 2011Digital community, Dissemination, Social media, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham, Blogging, Blogs, Ruth Harris, Whiteknights BiodiversityAlastair Culham

Whiteknights campus includes some outstanding green spaces that attract students to make Reading their university of choice. Scattered on shelves, in filing cabinets on computer disks, and sitting in brains, are piecesRead More…

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