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Social Media Strategies: guest workshop at the BIAD, Birmingham (20th of July, 2010)
On the 20th of July, I was invited to host a workshop at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) Research Summer School about using Social Media to promote research. As promised, I’m sticking the presentation online so that those who were there can get a little bit more information based on the discussions that [...]
The Depth of Digital Participation: Measuring the Unmeasurable, BCU: 19th July, 2010
On the 19th of July, Birmingham City University hosted a seminar on “Measuring the Unmeasurable” – a discussion led event to explore the meaning and the measurement of digital participation, focusing on the areas of reach, breadth and depth set out by the Digital Britain report. The event was targeted towards academics from broad “digital” [...]
Birmingham, UB40 and Music is Culture
So last night we (me and Tom) joined the cast of Interactive Cultures and Amplified to take part in the social meejaising of UB40′s Rainbow Roof fundraiser in Birmingham. The event itself was great fun and we managed to get a real feel for what the Brummie live music “movement” was about – despite having [...]
All Change!
I thought I would write a quick blog post as I’ve had a few people ask me if I’m moving back to Scotland (or given up the PhD) and I think it is about time I clarify what is going on (plus, I lost my voice over the weekend after chatting loads about this stuff [...]
SPSS
Well, I wouldn’t go that far. Although, ironically, today’s research methods seminar that I was teaching on SPSS was probably the smoothest session I’ve held in the last 6 weeks. I have an intrinsic fear of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists) after my near failure of the exam we had during our masters last [...]
Undergraduate Essays Due Next Week..
The one I got: Got sent a copy of an essay in a strange file format, accompanied with, “This essay is due next week. Can you read it, make corrections and have it back to me next week?” When I explained in class today that I wouldn’t be able to do that – but I [...]
An (Honest) Account of TA assessment
Week 8 into Semester one and my 6th week of teaching (ever) and I had my teaching assistant assessment from my boss (aka the course leader). It happened to coinside with one of my busiest weeks of presentations – 3 hours, 3 seperate seminars and 9 presentations between them. From the little experience I [...]
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