Building up Blackboard – showing what our VLE can do
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 withRead More…
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 publishRead More…
Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments
Blogging has become one of the major means of communicating just about anything. It allows more development of thought than a tweet or Facebook post and is a logical development of theRead More…
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, withRead More…
The Digital Department (Digital literacy project at UCL)
At lunchtime today the SELC group and other interested staff met to hear a presentation on The Digital Department (Digital literacy project at UCL), a sister project to Digitally Ready. It aimsRead More…
I-TUTOR: Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning
The University of Reading is a project partner in a prestigious project to develop a multi-agent based intelligent tutoring system to support online teachers, trainers, tutors and learners: I-TUTOR. I-TUTOR, which stands for Intelligent TutoringRead More…
Put it on my tab
For the New Year, we’ve re-launched the e-Learning Support area on Blackboard. We, in the e-Learning Team, have been trying to address the way we provide support for a while.
Digitally Ready for 2013
In attempting to write this blog post to sum up what 2012 has meant for Digitally Ready, the JISC-funded project here at the University of Reading to support staff and students inRead More…
Using colour coding on Outlook to organise emails, appointments and task lists
Managing emails, to-do lists and calendar appointments is an office skill which more and more people are finding they need to develop as an increasing amount of our working lives is spentRead More…