Monthly Archives: July 2011

Researchers summer school

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Hello to all the researchers I met at the NE Universities researcher summer school at Beamish Hall yesterday.

Pippin helping with paperwork

 We talked about profile raising, esteem and impact. One resource I forgot to mention is MyRI, a useful open access online resource which helps you to learn more about bibliometrics – ways to track and measure your research output.

Now you know the name of my cat and you have boosted my blog stats too!

Information for Learning workshop for academic staff

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I’m looking forward to a workshop my colleague Julia and I are facilitating next week. It’s called Information for Learning and is based in part on some work I did in Cardiff last year and with some visiting Nigerian lecturers here in Newcastle earlier this year. The idea behind it is to encourage academic staff to think about how and where IL fits into their teaching. Julia, another colleague, Jenny, and I are working on a small project to create an online resource for our staff and students based in Singapore, so the workshop will enable us to test what we’ve already created and draw on the experiences of teaching staff who are already working with international partners. The workshop is just for staff here at Newcastle, but I thought readers of the blog might be interested in what we’re doing, so details are below. If there is anyone else who is doing something similar, we’d be delighted to swap experiences with you.
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E-learning IL resources

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Mark Hepworth asked recently on the IL mailing list for examples of IL e-resources. For folks who didn’t see Ruth’s reply, there are some e-learning resources on the Information literacy wesbite  and  here too. 
Ruth’s keen to have more examples, so if your materials are not already linked to on the IL website, send  the details to r.e.stubbings@lboro.ac.uk and Kanwal.Virdee@uwl.ac.uk.