Tag Archives: Alastair Culham

Digitally Ready, a retrospective

Posted on July 15, 2013 by 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 publish it.  Looking back over the two years of … Continue reading →

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Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Alastair Culham

I’ve been at Reading University for quite a long time now.  Arriving at Reading fresh from my PhD, during which I managed my research data and wrote my thesis using a Sinclair QL (with optional disk drive), I told my … Continue reading →

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Are we ‘Digitally Ready’ yet?

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Alastair Culham

At 10am on Monday the JISC funded Digitally Ready project group, which broadcasts its progress via a blog and Twitter, met for an evaluation of project progress. A new emphasis for future JISC funding is likely to be student engagement … Continue reading →

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Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Alastair Culham

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 the traditional form of published essays.  I’ve been experimenting … Continue reading →

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Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Conor Haugh

Over the 2012/13 academic year I undertook a dissertation project titled “Biodiversity on the Web: Developing tools and data delivery for campus biodiversity knowledge”. As a part of the project I worked closely with Alastair Culham and several other students … Continue reading →

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Blogging to the world

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Alastair Culham

Blogging is about communication.  Some time ago I used the Word Press Jetpack statistics to check that one of the blogs I was writing had readers (Tropical Biodiversity) but recently the Word Press stats tools for blogs have gone through … Continue reading →

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Hatchpath revisited

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Alastair Culham

An email this week from Hatchpath telling me that around 10% of our UG stduents had signed up for it led me to look at some of the large part 1 modules in Biological Sciences to check the usage.

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Hatchpath: University of Reading is launch site for new collaborative software

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Alastair Culham

I’ve just stumbled across http://hatchpath.com, a site for student exchange of information on their modules.  It seems to have very smooth and intuitive tools for information sharing and strikes me as quite Facebook-like in its approach to making things easy. … Continue reading →

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Digital deception

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Alastair Culham

We all receive spam email from time to time and have probably all been asked to send our bank account details so that millions of dollars/pounds/euros can be deposited in our accounts. If you have a spam filter that gets … Continue reading →

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Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

This one-day event took place on 19 July and brought together staff with an interest in using digital technologies in innovative ways, to share good practice and encourage discussion around digital issues (full programme). Organised by the Digitally Ready project team, the … Continue reading →

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