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Twitter in Higher Education

Teachingcommons: Teaching 2.0 Circle & Blogging Twitter and Microblogging: The general theme of last week’s teaching commons was the discussion of blogging – what it is and how it can be used. It...

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Social Bookmarking in Higher Education

Last week I attended my second Teaching Commons 2.0 entitled ‘Social Bookmarking: What is it and how can it be used in Higher Education?’ The commons is quite an informal discussion for both staff and...

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QR Codes in Libraries and Higher Education

In the space of a day I’ve gone from being super skeptical of quick response (QR) codes to super enthusiastic – which is a weird predicament for me anyhow. I’m usually pretty quick on embracing new...

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Twitter as a classroom/study aid

Read Write Web has a really interesting post about a Twitter experiment in which a University of Texas History Professor, Monica Rankin, uses Twitter in a classroom environment to discuss the class...

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Introducing the Library

The first couple of weeks of term are always the busiest for an academic librarian, mainly because it’s the god awful induction time of year. To be fair I got off quite lightly by only seeing about 300...

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The Future is Electronic – or is it?

I’m a fan of technology… always have been. From my Dad’s first home-made ‘beeb’ computer I used to play what I consider to be some of the best computer games of all time on, to my first film-loading...

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National Science and Engineering Week

Hurray it’s almost time for the National Science and Engineering Week again. From March 12th until March 21st the University of Sheffield has once again teamed up with Sheffield Hallam University,...

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New Professionals and Career Development

I submitted a proposal for this year’s New Professionals Conference. It wasn’t accepted but I thought the process was worth saying something about. I’ve never really written a proposal for anything...

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There’s a sucker born every minute

The world’s greatest showman Phineas Taylor Barnum has come to Sheffield! Well considering he died in 1891 this isn’t exactly true but almost. Humbug is the first exhibition to make use of the new...

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Hiatus

I know there hasn’t been much activity here to get excited about lately but I just wanted to confirm that my blog is taking a hiatus. From August 24th I’ll no longer be working for the University of...

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