Google Scholar for searching
There are many databases available for academic searching, and there is a list of those available to University of Reading users. Google Scholar is a good overarching tool for searching through aRead More…
Online professionalism and Facebook – Falling through the generation gap
Via a tweet I found this recently published article: Osman, A., Wardle, A. & Caesar, R. (2012) Online professionalism and Facebook – Falling through the generation gap. Medical teacher. Available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.668624Read More…
Facebook: Social integration and informal learning experiences
Continuing the theme of using social media, I thought I would give a plug to a project on ‘Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development’ here at the University of Reading. Amongst otherRead More…
… and now for a blog about blogs
Blogs providing a solution for a variety of academic projects. Blogs have been employed for some time within the University by a number of colleagues and more recently these have used asRead More…
Digital scholarship
Interesting page from Martin Weller on digital scholarship which was the subject of an LSE seminar yesterday also delivered online. Description of the seminar taken from a promotional email – “The adventRead More…
Digital literacy vs Information Literacy?
Does an information literate person need to be digitally literate and vice versa? This is me hopefully playing a bit of devil’s advocate here and shamelessly promoting work by Librarians in theRead More…
Working with partners
JISC invited 11 sector bodies and professional associations to work in collaboration on supporting activities to realise the benefits from the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme for staff and students in furtherRead More…
My Favourite Apps
In my job, I often find that sometimes work gets in the way of life, and sometimes life gets in the way of work. What I mean by this is, sometimes IRead More…
Diary Management using Outlook
As his Executive Assistant, I am responsible for ensuring my Director’s time is used in the most effective way possible. This ranges from trying to plan meetings in the same location onRead More…
Building a social network for scientists
www.afclix.org is the web-portal of the African Climate Exchange project at the UoR Meteorology Department. Afclix is a social networking site, where each member has a profile, can create collaborative projects withRead More…