• Have you noticed anything different?…..

    Have you taken a look at the new Learning Services web pages.?

    We launched our new pages on Friday 7th March using the new WordPress template, which is now used by many areas and departments across the University.

    The new templates and widgets, which have been developed by our colleagues in the Web Team, offer us a much more flexible approach to both management and content.  We have worked collaboratively with colleagues across Learning Services and IT Services to bring these changes and new styles to our site and we hope you like them.

    Exciting new features include:

    • Integration of our social media channels
    • Bold news feature to highlight new developments and events
    • Easier ways to get in touch and access to our online Ask Us service
    • All new content and help & support for subject resources
    • Access to our media equipment Youtube videos 
    • Easy navigation from our newly designed homepage

    We have already had some great feedback about these new streamlined pages but welcome any comments or ideas for improvement, please get in touch.

    Rachel Bury

    Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Marketing and Communication

     

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  • Read all about it …….

    …… check out the newly acquired phonics collection at Edge Hill’s library at the Woodlands Centre, Chorley.

    The government is keen to promote high quality teaching of systematic, synthetic phonics in primary schools so the library at Woodlands, a centre for education resources, has invested in a whole range of phonics materials.

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    Education trainees can evaluate these new phonic resources at Woodlands or borrow them for 1 week.

    The collection includes:-

    • Phonics Bug – Pearson
    • Jolly Phonics – Jolly Learning Ltd
    • Project X – Oxford University Press
    • Floppy’s Phonics Sounds and Letters – Oxford University |Press

    Don’t forget Woodlands Library has books, journals and DVDs related to teaching. Students can also use study spaces, PCs and laptops

    The library at Woodlands is open to all. Please get in touch if you would like more information about our phonics collections or Woodlands Library

    Rita Mar 14Rita McWilliam

    Deputy Site Librarian, Woodlands Library

     

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  • Don’t leave your seat!

    Routemaster2

    Are you getting ready to start your dissertation?

    Here’s an opportunity to learn some new information searching skills at a time and a place that suits you.

    Not finding the results you require when searching online, on the library catalogue or journal databases?

    Grab a cuppa and find yourself a nice comfy chair and watch this online session to gain some new skills which will improve your search strategy. You can even watch and listen while travelling on the bus or train to and from university.

    The session is called “Finding information for your dissertation” session and ran online using Blackboard Collaborate, on 19 February 2014.

    Finding information for your dissertation – next live webinar:

    If you would like to attend the next live webinar, view the calendar which details all the sessions coming up in Routemaster – Steps to Success – Semester 2. Click on a date to make a booking. You can book any session up to 2 weeks in advance.

    We will look at why information skills are important, systematic planning for conducting a search and managing the search process and results. This will be demonstrated via application sharing and web tours.

    Do you have feedback or suggestions about delivering skills in this way?

    Are there any other sessions you would like to see delivered as an online webinar?

    Helen Miller  Helen Miller

     

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