• New skills for a new year – January Staff Development

    The Learning Services staff development programme – Developing Digital Excellence begins again in January.

    We have got a wide range of sessions covering all 4 strands of the programme which will support staff across the university in their use of technology and hopefully enhance their knowledge and skills – and maybe learn something brand new.

    Here’s the detail of what we have got coming up in January

     

    • Digital Classroom

    HD TV Studio – have a tour and overview of the TV Studio and HD technology (top floor Learning Innovation Centre)
    16th January 1.00pm – 2.00pm

    Introduction to classroom and lecture theatre technology
    W/B 21st January and W/B 29th January.

    Please contact Glenn Allan direct to discuss suitable rooms and dates – ex 7227

    • Digital Practitioner

    When is it and what did you say? – using the VLE to improve communication and organisation
    18th January 12.00pm – 1.00pm

    Help my mobile is smarter than me! – we all know how this feels!
    28th January 1.00pm – 2.00pm

    Technology road show and clinic – this is both for staff and students.  Please spread the word to your students about this road show
    31st Jan The Hub 11.00am – 2.00pm.

    No need to book, just come and see us in the Hub

    • Digital Researcher

    Effective information search strategies – getting the best results when you search
    15th January 12.00pm – 1.00pm

    Research information feeds – make life easier by getting automatic feeds of all the things you are interested in
    21st January 1.00pm – 2.00pm

    Introduction to Refworks – a great training session to start your research project with
    29th January 10.00am – 12.00pm

    • Digital Office

    Folders and File management
    15th January 10.00am – 11.00am

    Powerpoint an introduction
    17th January 9.30am – 11.30am

    Advanced features of Word
    28th January 2.00pm – 4.30pm

    You can find out more about these sessions and also what we have coming up throughout the year via the Learning Services wiki

    https://go.edgehill.ac.uk/wiki/display/ls/Staff+Development

    You can see at a glance the sessions we are delivering across all these areas and by using the link on the page, link through to book direct on the HR wiki.

    All sessions, unless mentioned otherwise, take place in the Learning Innovation Centre (LINC) development room which is located on the top floor of the building. Teams across Learning Services can also deliver bespoke sessions to teams if there is something you would like to develop your skills in.  Please get in touch if you would like to know more.

    Rachel Bury
    ext. 7757

     

     

    Rachel

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  • A new trial – Cinahl+ Full Text

    Learning Services have been offered an exciting new trial until August 2013. We already have access to the Cinahl database, for our Nursing and Social Care students, but we have recently been upgraded to Cinahl+ with full text.

    This essentially means a larger database with more coverage, more full text and archives dating back to the 1930s. It indexes over 5000 journals, with full text for 770.

    CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains:

    • Research Instruments

    • Evidence-Based Care Sheets

    • Quick Lessons & Search Strategies

    • Continuing Education Modules

    • Clinical Innovations

    • Critical Paths

    • Drug Records

    • Clinical Trials

    • Nursing Dissertations

    However, to fully assess the worth of this database, we really need student input. So if you think this is a valuable resource, please get in touch and let us know! We’ll be assessing usage figures throughout the year, with a view to making a decision in the summer.

    Contact: [email protected] , call 7759 or leave me a comment here.

    Lisa

  • Reading Promotions

    The Learning Services’ EHU Loves Reading campaign came to a close just before Christmas with over 100 people telling us why they love reading. Lindsey Blackhurst won an e-reader and runner-up Amanda Tarbox won a £20 book token. Congratulations to both of them.

    For those who love reading please note that the Costa Book Awards 2012 category winners were announced on 2nd January 2013. Copies of all the winning books, plus all books on the short lists, are now available to borrow from the University Library. The successful authors, who will now compete for the 2012 Costa Book of the Year (to be announced on 29th January 2013), are:

    • Husband and wife team Mary and Bryan Talbot, who jointly win the Costa Biography
    Award for Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, an interweaving of two father-daughter
    relationships (that of James Joyce with his daughter Lucia, and that of the author
    with her father, a James Joyce scholar) and the first graphic work ever to win a Costa
    Award
    • Hilary Mantel, who takes the Costa Novel Award for Bring up the Bodies, which won
    the 2012 Man Booker Prize
    • Journalist, critic and writer Francesca Segal, whose debut novel The Innocents, set in
    a tightly-knit Jewish community in north-west London, is modelled on Edith
    Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, wins the Costa First Novel Award
    • Poet Kathleen Jamie whose book The Overhaul, is described by the judges as ‘the
    collection that will convert you to poetry’
    • Writer-illustrator and dyslexia campaigner, Sally Gardner, who as a child was once
    branded ‘unteachable’, and now takes the Costa Children’s Book Award for Maggot
    Moon.

    So pop into the University Library and browse the Costa books displayed on the ground floor to see if any of them take your fancy as a new year read.

    Zoe Clarke, Academic Liaison Manager (ext 4829)

     

    Zoe

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