Category Archives: Research Skills

Jan 31 2012

CLT launch short series for researchers

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Later this term CLT will be collaborating with LSE Library and the Legal and Compliance Team to deliver a series of three short workshops for PhD students and researchers focusing on the legal issues you need to consider when undertaking … Continue reading

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Jul 28 2011

Form an orderly queue for your copyright queries

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I just wanted to report that I am now back at LSE, in my role as Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor in the Centre for Learning Technology. My new job title more accurately reflects the support I offer to staff … Continue reading

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Jun 13 2011

Blogging & Twitter Workshops

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Due to popular demand we have scheduled two additional workshops next week. A handful of spaces remain for each. Introduction to Twitter – Wednesday 22nd June @ 12:00 – Uses of Twitter in education, including a hands-on session to get … Continue reading

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Mar 2 2011

Review of social citation tools

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I have recently reviewed a number of social citation tools to see how they might support the work of a large research team. I thought my notes on these tools might be of interest. Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com / Mendeley is both … Continue reading

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May 25 2010

LSE Teaching Day

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Last week was LSE Teaching Day, which was the second time we ran an event focusing on good practice in teaching for LSE staff. The day was opened by Dr Jonathan Leape who is the Course Director for LSE100, the … Continue reading

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Dec 10 2009

Coming soon-ish

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The annual Horizon reports track emerging technologies that are likely to have an impact on teaching and learning in the future.  The predictions of earlier reports are available elsewhere on this blog: 2009 2008 2007 and if you want to … Continue reading

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Oct 6 2009

on reading

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Last night on Radio4′s Front Row novelist Susan Hill, talking to Mark Lawson about her new book (which charts a year in which she resisted buying new books, instead finally reading or re-reading those from her own  collection), revealed that … Continue reading

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Jul 9 2009

making it personal – 7th annual @greenwich conference

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Yesterday I attended the 7th annual eLearning @greenwich conference “Making IT Personal“, which focused on the practical and theoretical, technical and pedagogical issues surrounding the notion of “self-regulated learning”, summarised by the key notion of “personalisation”. How can optimal (pedagogically … Continue reading

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Oct 10 2008

Brush up your digital literacy skills with CLT

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We’ve just re-branded our E-literacy for E-learning classes aimed at LSE staff and PhD students as the Digital Literacy Programme and added a few new classes to the schedule for later in November. Classes such as ‘Going Beyond Google’ and … Continue reading

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Sep 6 2007

Web 2.0 is evil?

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Yesterday evening at the “Towards a social science of web 2.0″ conference we witnessed an extremely interesting ‘debate’ between Charles Leadbetter and Andrew Keen; the former advancing a number of arguments that web 2.0, user generated content and open source … Continue reading

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