1. Bite Size Technology Sessions to 1
Support Research, Teaching and
Collaboration
Andy Tattersall
University of Sheffield
a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk
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2. The importance of managing your references
and other information sources for your
research bid and project

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ScHARR
• The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
specialises in health services and public health research
• ScHARR concentrates on postgraduate teaching and delivers a
teaching and learning portfolio based on research-based,
international, multi-disciplinary and world-class curricula
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A growing problem
• Too much choice – which one is best?
• Too little time – too much time wasted
• Lack of awareness – lack of application
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Time is the key
A Solution?
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“Insanity is doing
the same thing
over and over
again and
expecting
different results”.
Albert Einstein
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The Ingredients
Informal promotion via email,
blogs and in house posters
Informal interactive
presentations from a mixture of
academics, technical, clerical
and professional staff
Staff, PGR and PGT students
welcome
and…
cakes
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Copyright Go!Animate.com
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Planting seeds
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Structure
20 minute session 10
Minutes for questions
Guest speakers from across
The University
Slides made available and
recordings uploaded to
Intranet, YouTube and
Vimeo
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The story so far
• Started in Autumn 2010
• 29 previous Bite Size sessions - including
Google Docs, Prezi, PowerPoint tools, professional social
networks, uSpace, Echo360, Pubget, Research Net
Contribution, Assessment Methods, Screencasting,
Wikis, Electronic Voting Systems, Senate teaching
awards, Google Scholar, Mendeley, rss, social media,
Google Apps, voice works, data copyright and the
Cloud, MOLE 2, mobile phone apps, video capture.
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To come
The Research Excellence Framework, supervising
PhD students, what the Teaching Support Unit
can do for you, Scirus scientific search engine,
Google Maps for Research, Plagiarism, Medline,
Cinahl, what ScHARR Library can do for you,
Interactive whiteboards, creating effective
posters, how to give a memorable presentation,
research costing
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Feedback
The evaluation
54 Respondents, including a few PGT and PGR students (25% staff approx)
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Do you think attending short sessions such as Bite
Size is an effective way of learning new ways of
working?
Yes: 50
Not Sure: 4
No: 0
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Has attending a Bite Size session helped you
with your work, research or teaching?
Yes: 35
Not Sure: 14
No: 5
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What do you think of the duration of the
sessions?
Too Short: 7
Just right: 47
Too long: 0
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How important is it for you to learn about new
developments, tools and websites for your job or
study?
Not Important: 0
Partially important: 17
Very important: 37
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Short, focused,
interactive,
They are good, quick intro to a new entertaining
tool. Because they're given in person
you have the chance to ask questions.
I like the social (cake and tea) aspect
of it. meeting other colleagues you I really like dipping
might not know into a topic I would
otherwise not have
learnt about.
Great idea, like the cakes,
It's short, there is cake, wish I'd thought of it,
and if the topic isn't of but reassured to see
immediate use to you that it is genuinely not
then you don't feel easy to get researchers
like you have wasted to take time out.
time learning about it.
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