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Category Archives: Technology in fieldwork
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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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
Enhancing Fieldwork Learning
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, which includes Alice Mauchline and Julian Park from the School … Continue reading
Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs
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’ model includes maxi, mini and micro placements. A maxi … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Employability, Research, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Amanda 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
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What should we be teaching our students?
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 University of Reading students – and a sizeable percentage … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Amanda Clarke, Silchester
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A digitally prepared project
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 will be able to conduct a before and after … Continue reading
Digital literacy in the Wilderness
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 biodiversity site. The rather ambitious setting of an assessed … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Whiteknights Biodiversity, a young blog for an old green space
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 pieces of research by staff and students recording the … Continue reading