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Helping University of Reading to be Digitally Ready…

The Digital Development team have been running our Drop in and Learn (DI@L) sessions for some time now and over the last few months, coinciding with the Digitally Ready project we have meet and discussed a number of interesting topics … Continue reading

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Introducing Leigh

Leigh is currently Digital Development Manager at The University of Reading and part of the Digitally Ready team. My role at the University is focused around managing the digital presence of the diverse and varied University projects. Investigating new technologies and … Continue reading

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Paul’s involvement in IT Training courses

I’m currently involved in giving training through IT Services training courses as mentioned in a previous post from Shirley. This training is: for both students and staff at the University mostly on the Office products, i.e. Word, Excel PowerPoint and … Continue reading

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Introducing myself – Paul Janota

I work at the University of Reading in the department of Information Technology (IT) Services as an IT trainer. I believe my main role on the project will come in at a later stage when we start running workshops and … Continue reading

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ITS training courses

There are a whole host of training courses offered by ITS available for all members of the University see their web page for details. As well as training courses they offer individual help: Drop-In-And-Learn (Di&L) sessions are held throughout the year … Continue reading

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Different Operating Systems

Last week I heard a student talking about the difficulties she had experienced in using Powerpoint on a Mac when she was used to using it on a Windows PC. Later that day I talked to a non-technical colleague about … Continue reading

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Introducing myself – Helen Hathaway

  I am a University of Reading Teaching Fellow, the Information Skills Co-ordinator within the Library and a member of the HEA. I was a founder member (1998) of the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) Advisory Committee … Continue reading

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Reflections on the JISC Programme meeting, 4 Oct 2011

An interesting and very stimulating meeting yesterday, thank you JISC. A room full of ideas, posters, and plans for digital literacies. The projects have a lot of common areas of work, especially within the clusters. It was great to meet … Continue reading

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Enhancing Fieldwork Learning

I thought it would be useful to note cross-over between the digital literacy project and a current HEA project I am involved with, run out of the University of Chester. The Enhancing Fieldwork Learning project is a three year project … Continue reading

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Introducing myself, Alison Black

Technology change over the centuries: the top picture shows Stephen Fry filming the reproduction of Gutenberg’s printing press, with staff of the Typography Department; underneath, an iPhone app developed as coursework by one of our MA Information Design students I … Continue reading

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