5 March 2015
by Aisha
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I stumbled across a supermarket leaflet on its way to the recycling bin. The leaflet was promoting post-new year ‘healthy’ special offers such as fruit chunks and yogurt-coated flakes. Leaving aside the question of why a leaflet dated early January … Continue reading
6 December 2013
by Aisha
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At a recent conference I asked casually “how can we escape the tyranny of PowerPoint?” and the answer I received was “Well, you tried… with Prezi”. However, the question wasn’t about PowerPoint per se but about the ubiquity of presentation … Continue reading
27 November 2013
by Aisha
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Talk given to students at Vientiane College 25th November 2013
1 October 2013
by Aisha
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Academic staff routinely advise students against citing blogs in their essays. This can be a problem for students as Google and other search engines often return results for blogs and for other ‘grey literature’ above results for peer-reviewed articles unless … Continue reading
29 August 2013
by Aisha
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Academic hygiene (Walker, in press) is particularly important when students are working extensively with digital resources. With paper-based study, students who do not practice good academic hygiene might find themselves searching the library bookshelves on assignment-submission day for the book(s) … Continue reading