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Student Communications Internship – Remember to speak to your students!
So here I am, coming towards the end of my fourth week of my Student Communications Internship. Last time I blogged I spoke about having a lot of questions to answer and, if anything, I now have even more! Alongside … Continue reading
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 publish it. Looking back over the two years of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resources
Tagged Alastair 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)
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Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool
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
Enterprise social networking: Caring, climbing, campaigning
Here at Reading we have been trialling enterprise social networking service Yammer since the start of the new year. Head of Web and New Media Helen Setchell who is a member of the Digitally Ready Steering Group, is leading the … Continue reading
University and Facebook
Student communication channels was one of the areas investigated by the ‘Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development’ project undertaken here at Reading. The initiative, funded by the University’s Teaching & Learning Development Fund (TLDF), was directed by Matthew Almond, Director … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination
Tagged Blackboard (VLE), Email, Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development, Facebook, Gemma Allen, Joy Collier, Matthew Almond, Nadja Guggi, Peter Kruschwitz, Philip Smither, School of Chemistry Food and Pharmacy, Social media for student engagement, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, VLE
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Digital Community: Art at Reading launches OSCAR
Art at Reading has a new digital platform to connect staff and students. OSCAR, the Online Studio Community at Reading, has been developed to support the vast range of teaching and learning activities that happen across studio modules in Art, within the … Continue reading
Hatchpath: University of Reading is launch site for new collaborative software
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
Posted in Digital community, Dissemination
Tagged Alastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE), Collaborative platform, Facebook, Hatchpath, iPad, Spark, Wikis
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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 other things, the project explores the use of Facebook … Continue reading
Saint or sinner?
We’ ve been hearing a lot recently about the need for a code of practice to guide our students in their use of web 2.0 and social media when part of their learning programme. This was a recurrent theme at last … Continue reading
Using social media for employability
Recent studies have shown that students are comfortable using sites such as Facebook and Twitter in their social lives but feel less confident about applying those skills for learning. Our own small-scale study, carried out in conjunction with our careers … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Training & resources
Tagged Em Sowden, Facebook, LinkedIn, Nadja Guggi, Social media for employability, Twitter, YouTube
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