Tag Archives: Alastair Culham

15Jul/13

Digitally Ready, a retrospective

July 15, 2013Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resourcesAlastair 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)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 publishRead More…

11Jul/13

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

July 11, 2013Digital community, Dissemination, Employability, Internationalisation, Social media, Staff-student partnershipsAlastair Culham, alumni, BSc projects, Conor Haugh, Facebook, Group Communication, induction, MSc communication, outreachAlastair 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 SinclairRead More…

03Jul/13

Are we ‘Digitally Ready’ yet?

July 3, 2013Digital community, Meetings & Events, Small project funding schemeAlastair Culham, Digital Community, Helen Setchell, Julian Park, Maria Papaefthimiou, Matthew Nicholls, Pat Parslow, Peter ChattertonAlastair 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 futureRead More…

24Jun/13

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

June 24, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Digital community, Employability, Internationalisation, Social media, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, Student engagementAlastair 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 theRead More…

24Jun/13

Digital Literacy: What I’ve Learned

June 24, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Digital community, Employability, Social media, Staff-student partnershipsAlastair Culham, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, School of Biological Sciences, Student employability, Student engagementConor 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 workedRead More…

05Jan/13

Blogging to the world

January 5, 2013Assessment & Feedback, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Jetpack, readershipAlastair 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 WordRead More…

28Nov/12

Hatchpath revisited

November 28, 2012Digital community, DisseminationAlastair CulhamAlastair 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 modulesRead More…

27Oct/12

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

October 27, 2012Digital community, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE), Collaborative platform, Facebook, Hatchpath, iPad, Spark, WikisAlastair 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 quiteRead More…

11Sep/12

Digital deception

September 11, 2012Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Open Access blogAlastair 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.Read More…

20Jul/12

Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice

July 20, 2012Dissemination, Meetings & Events'Sharing Good Practice' event, Alastair Culham, Andi Nygaard, Blackboard Mobile, Gerry Leonidas, Guy Pursey, InStEPP, Julian Park, Karsten Lundqvist, Matthew Nicholls, Pete Castle, Rebecca Reynolds, Richard Frazier, Shirley Williams, Sir David Bell KCB

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 (fullRead More…