Tag Archives: Matthew Nicholls

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…

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…

19Feb/13

Learning on Screen Awards

February 19, 2013Dissemination, VideoBritish Universities Film & Video Council (BUVFC), Department of Classics, Digital Heroes, Digital modelling, Digital Modelling of Ancient Rome and the Roman World, Matthew Nicholls, Nadja Guggi

Congratulations to our Digital Hero Matthew Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, who has been shortlisted for a prestigious Learning on Screen Award by the British Universities Film & Video CouncilRead More…

15Feb/13

Closing the feedback loop

February 15, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & EventsClosing the feedback loop, Henley Business School, Inclusive practices in teaching learning and assessment, Kara Swift, Matthew Nicholls, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Redrup, Reading University Students' Union (RUSU), Stuart Morris, Teaching & Learning Showcase events

A couple of weeks ago, I foolishly promised readers of this blog a catch-up on the latest session in our Teaching & Learning Showcase series – ‘Closing the feedback loop’, which tookRead More…

06Feb/13

Making sense: digital modelling and flipped classroom

February 6, 2013Dissemination, Meetings & EventsAugmented Reality (AR), Building Information Modelling (BIM), Closing the feedback loop, David Nutt, Digital modelling, Flipped classroom, Matthew Nicholls, Milan Radosavljevic, Nadja Guggi, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning

‘Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning’ proved a hot topic for over 40 staff here at Reading who joined us for another session in our popular Teaching & Learning Showcase series,Read 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…

16Jan/13

New Teaching & Learning Showcase series

January 16, 2013Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Small project funding schemeAugmented Reality (AR), Closing the feedback loop, David Nutt, Department of Chemistry, Department of Classics, Digital modelling, Flipped classroom, Inclusive practices in teaching learning and assessment, Matthew Nicholls, Milan Radosavljevic, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning

We are kicking off the new year with another round of Teaching & Learning Showcase events here at Reading, starting next week with a session on the ‘Use of technologies in TeachingRead 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…