“@gsiemens: “I can’t teach at Stanford again.” wow. Open courses really do mess you up. http://t.co/643HUgh2” #mscidel
RT @guardiantech Facebook and Twitter's 'non-natives' learn dangers of social media territory bit.ly/wecD8S #mscidel
A_L_T: ALT-C 2012 template for proceedings papers: Slater, John (2012) ALT-C 2012 template for proceedings papers. In: ... http://t.co/sizaglOk
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Slater, John (2012) ALT-C 2012 template for proceedings papers. In: ALT-C 2012 - a confrontation with reality.
A_L_T: RT @Lessig Research in Learning Technology goes OpenAccess (meaning freely licensed). BRAVO! http://t.co/Mh2Mwk1O http://t.co/ViLudeHz
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A_L_T: RT @lessig: Research in Learning Technology goes OpenAccess (meaning freely licensed). BRAVO! http://t.co/JEXGBcdz
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A new website designed to help students make the transition between school, university and employment is launched today, by Queen Mary, University of London's Thinking Writing team.
The 'Writing in Schools, Higher Education and Employment Settings' (WISHEES) project is funded by JISC, and aims to help raise aspiration and attainment in schools and universities.
Working in collaboration with local schools and employers, Teresa McConlogue and Debra Hills of the Thinking Writing team have developed an online collection of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) writing texts and podcasts. The site features examples of real student texts, with tutor commentaries on those texts and interactive tutorials to help students think about quality in STEM writing.
The team hope school teachers and academics will find the website useful when designing STEM writing tasks that better prepare students for the demands of university and employment.
Sally Mitchell, Thinking Writing Co-ordinator at Queen Mary, commented: "This resource provides fascinating insights into what teachers and lecturers value in their students’ writing. It’s a great addition to the Thinking Writing website which supports academics to develop their thinking and practice in relation to writing."
Resources like WISHEES help to celebrate the good work that goes on in schools and universities around writing, and help students explore the trajectory of student writing from school to employment.
Academics from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, USA and employers such as Transport for London and Astrium Ltd (space transportation and satellite systems) have also contributed to the WISHEES collection.
Osman Bawa from Astrium Ltd commented: “Technical writing is an essential skill on which industry and business as a whole depend. To our thousands of engineers and managers it is their main means of communication. Students and young engineers need to actively develop and practice their technical writing, not only to speed up the process or reduce the time it takes, but to guarantee a project's success.
“Astrium is pleased to be a part of the STEM WISHEES project as it is an excellent way of helping students and academics to understand just what industry expects.”
JISC Digitisation Programme Manager Paola Marchionni added: "This resource is an excellent example of how the higher education sector, schools and employers can work in partnership to tackle the need for innovative resources which are engaging and at the same time develop students' digital literacy skills to prepare them for the demands of tertiary education as well as for the job market."
This project is funded by the JISC eContent programme 2011.
Click here to find out more about the project and view the resources or contact Teresa McConlogue (WISHEES Project Director).
For more information, please contact:
Siân Halkyard
Communications Manager
Queen Mary, University of London
020 7882 7454
07970 096 175
s.halkyard@qmul.ac.uk
@Cathb22 Congratulations on first tweet. Lots more to come! #mscidel
A_L_T: Apple's NY Education Event: http://t.co/HqG7nlWF #appled has the Verge's live coverage with pictures
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A_L_T: Live coverage (text-based) of Apple Education announcement/event in New York http://t.co/XlqxBQLN
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A_L_T: A quick question from ALT. It's been said that "prescribed text books play a much smaller part in UK HE than in the US". Evidence?
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A_L_T: President approved minutes of the 2011 Association for Learning Technology AGM: ALT, ALT (2011) President approv... http://t.co/V6Hzq4Qq
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ALT, ALT (2011) President approved minutes of the 2011 Association for Learning Technology AGM. Association for Learning Technology.
RT @jar: Visitors & Residents as alternative to the native/immigrant metaphor. #mscidel http://t.co/sSeygUkS
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A_L_T: Kindles and eReaders for learning. An @A_L_T supported @niace seminar in Leicester on 15 February - http://t.co/lmdN29rd
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A_L_T: Kindles and eReaders for learning. An @A_L_T supported @niace seminar in Leicester on 15 February - http://t.co/lmdN29rd
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A_L_T: Insight Report: Contexts of use of Learning Design Support Tools: Harris, Rachel A and Schmoller, Seb (2011) Ins... http://t.co/GKPNgWEy
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Harris, Rachel A and Schmoller, Seb (2011) Insight Report: Contexts of use of Learning Design Support Tools. Inspire Research & ALT.
First tweet to complete the orientation activities for #mscidel. It must be time to read the stories from the darkside ; )
A_L_T: Minutes of ALT's Operational Committees now available online: In November 2011 the Central Executive Committee... http://t.co/bKfd0g5R
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A_L_T: Research in Learning Technology - Letter to ALT Members: Schmoller, Seb and Sutton, Caroline (2012) Research in ... http://t.co/zQGtDkRE
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A_L_T: @agentjohnson Yes, we know about the DOI. There is (human) latency at the DOI resolver end. We are told. What is your email address? Seb S
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A_L_T: Shutdown or restart? The Royal Society's long-awaited report on computing in schools http://t.co/dcs0ORhI #schoolstech
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Schmoller, Seb and Sutton, Caroline (2012) Research in Learning Technology - Letter to ALT Members. Other. ALT.