Tag Archives: Julian Park

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…

04Feb/13

Moving forward through video feedback

February 4, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & Events, VideoASSET, Audio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Clare Furneaux, Department of Classics, Feed forward, JISC, Julian Park, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Matthew Nicholls, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Video, Video feedback, VLE

Ever since Neil Morris’ research seminar in November on ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education’, his name has been cropping up again and again in my conversationsRead More…

11Jan/13

Enhancing Fieldwork Learning

January 11, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Technology in fieldworkAlice Mauchline, Enhancing Fieldwork Learning, Geography Earth Environmental and Biosciences (GEES), Geotagging, iPad, Julian Park, School of Agriculture Policy and Development

The University of Reading is part of a three-year Higher Education Academy (HEA)-funded project considering the use of technology in fieldwork to enhance student learning: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning. The project team, whichRead More…

11Dec/12

Digitally Ready for 2013

December 11, 2012Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Training & resources, Work/Academic placements'Sharing Good Practice' event, Academic Practice Programme (APP), Centre for Staff Training and Development (CSTD), Digital Development Forum (DDF), Digital Development Team, Julian Park, Letters to Santa, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Rachel Glover, Sir David Bell KCB, Teaching & Learning Showcase events

In attempting to write this blog post to sum up what 2012 has meant for Digitally Ready, the JISC-funded project here at the University of Reading to support staff and students inRead More…

27Nov/12

Show & TEL: Making technology-enhanced learning work in HE

November 27, 2012Dissemination, Meetings & Events, ResearchAudio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Discussion boards, Independent study, Interactive chat, iPad, Julian Park, Lecture capture, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, NMC Horizon Report, Open Educational Resources (OERs), Plymouth University, Social media, Steve Wheeler, Student engagement, Student response systems, Study Skills Connected, Tablet devices, Teaching & Learning Seminar, University of Leeds, Video, VLE

Neil Morris, author of Study Skills Connected, a new book on using technology to support Teaching & Learning, visited Reading last week to speak about ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff andRead 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…