Tag Archives: Pat Parslow

Are we ‘Digitally Ready’ yet?

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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Letters to Santa: Wishes can come true

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Letters to Santa: Communication and information

Thank you for your lovely letter.  I am sorry to hear that you find it hard to find out what support is available.  Santa has asked me to say that he thinks there are two approaches which we need to … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Context aware systems, and info-overload management tools

Hi – Santa says thank you so much for using his more formal mode of address! Something the elves here have thought about occasionally is a system like a spam filter, but used for sorting incoming missives in to the … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Reputation, resources and branding

Dear Kirsti, Thank you so much for your letter, which has some great requests in it.  More time to use online resources (or indeed, more time for any number of priorities) is something I am not sure Santa has available … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: IT training & top down encouragement of social media

Thank you for your interesting letter.  I know that training colleagues can be a time consuming and reward-free task sometimes.  If it isn’t part of your actual role, you need to be careful not to let it interfere with your … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Compatibility and consideration

Thanks for your letter. Yours, Communications Elf.   PS Only kidding, but I thought I should be keeping it brief! I think it is important that people act with consideration.  There is a theory that the ‘keyboard divide’ can help … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Risk taking and innovation

Thank you for your marvellous letter.  Santa says that he would love to help, and help improve the approach to risk taking and innovation.  It is particularly lovely that you combines this wish with one to help reduce risk by … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Innovative e-learning practices

Thank you for your lovely letter.  Santa says we should all be trying to share knowledge of good practice more, so others can benefit.  There certainly are people experimenting with new teaching methods around the University, but it is not … Continue reading

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Letters to Santa: Local initiatives

Thank you for your lovely letter.  Santa is obviously very busy at this time of year, but he has asked me to reply, in my role as Communications Elf,  on his behalf.  I think your wish is a very sensible … Continue reading

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