February 2009 - Posts
The first of the school's mini lectures is now available via the Lecture Theatre webpage as well as within the Lecture Theatre itself on the School's Second Life Island.
This means you are able to listen to the content without having to login to Second Life if you so wish.
We’ve added a postgraduate course showcase on the first floor of the Visitors Centre on the school's Second Life Island.
To visit it, enter the visitors centre and then go upstairs.
Here you can learn more about our post graduate courses by clicking on each of the signs, as shown in the image below:
Just a quick message to let you know that we have added a “Landmark” giver at the TELLS Teaching zone on the school's Second Life island.
By clicking on the large red push pin, you will receive a folder with a note card inside that lists places of interest that you may wish to visit to learn more about Teaching & Learning within Second Life.
We will be adding more places to the list as time goes by – if you know of a place which you think should be added to our list then please let us know.
Phillip Cole, the Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the school has published a mini lecture on on research ethics for undergraduate students.
It’s 8 minutes long and is now playing in the Lecture Theatre on our Second Life island.
To listen to the lecture, just walk into the lecture theatre and ensure that streaming audio is turned on.
A new teaching zone has been added to the school's Second Life visitors centre, called the TELLS teaching zone it showcases 3 of the E-learning websites created by the School’s Academic Leader and lets users pick up free teaching objects & structures for use in world.
To visit it, just teleport to our island* and then go to the 1st floor of the visitors centre.
You can learn more about the TELLS teaching zone by clicking here.
* Please note you need to contact Paul Andrews with the name of your Second Life avatar so that we can add you to the islands guest list before you can enter.
To accompany the forthcoming launch of the school's Second life island, we've built an "orientation" website that you can visit to learn more about the island and how it's being used.
Here you will find guides to getting started with Second Life, plus full details of what's on, and going on, on the schools island.
You can also signup for RSS or e-mail updates if you so wish.
Click on the link below to visit the website & learn more about what we have planned:
http://sites.google.com/site/secondlifeuwnshss/
We have been informed that many of you have registered for the 2009 UWN Yearbook and uploaded a lot of photos. Thanks for being proactive on responding to the last couple of emails. If you have not yet completed your entry please do so by visiting: www.gradfinale.co.uk
If you have not yet taken any action, it is time for you to visit: www.gradfinale.co.uk/students/register it costs nothing to be included – start sending in your entries and photos! We do not want you to be the one that missed out on being in this prestigious publication.
If you want to have a copy of the Yearbook, you can order it now at the early discount price of £20 - offer ends 28th Feb. (Normal price £25) you do not need to complete your entry to be able to order. You are more than welcome to take advantage of the discount now and take time to complete your entry until you are happy with it.
A sample Yearbook is also available on the website for you to look at please visit: www.gradfinale.co.uk
If you have any enquiries please contact admin@gradfinale.co.uk
Best wishes,
UWN Alumni Association working with the Yearbook team
Just a quick message to let you know that the school now has a photostream on Flickr.
>> Click here to view the school's photostream <<
Created with
flickr slideshow.
Hi All, Please find attached the exams timetable for this summer.
We're regularly asking you to give us feedback on particular modules but this one is different, it about your whole experience - your course, assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, personal development and your overall satisfaction. If you're a final year student - part time or full time -we're asking you to take part in the National Students Survey.
It'll take you about 5 minutes to complete and this year we are offering an incentive of the chance to win one of five £100 cash prizes for those students who complete the survey. (Winners will be randomly selected by the NSS.)
You can find the survey at www.thestudentsurvey.com and you can find out more about the survey at National Student Survey FAQ's
With this posting you'll find the minutes of the School's learning and teaching group - as always, any feedback or comment is welcomed.
Please find attached the minutes from last weeks Department Board meeting.
The school is in the process of building a virtual campus for its staff and students on Second Life and we are now at the stage where we’d like some people inside the school to try it out.
So if you are working in a group or a team and you’d like a free virtual home to collaborate and communicate with your colleagues in, then please send an email to Paul.Andrews@newport.ac.uk and he will get back to you with further details.
Thanks for reading.
The SHSS Virtual Lecture Theatre
'Basic Income and Paternalism'
Dr Tony Fitzpatrick
University of Nottingham
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/people/atoz.php?id=NjA0NTYx&page_var=personal
The policy of a Basic Income - where all citizens are provided with sufficient resources to live on - is to many a powerful solution to problems around creating equality of opportunity, and fairness in distributing resources. But does that the fact that Basic Income is an unconditional scheme also make it a non-paternalistic one - i.e., one which avoids being overly directive about how citizens should live their lives? The answer to this depends upon the social, political and moral ends that we see as desirable. This presentation discusses paternalism in relation to theories of distributive justice - particularly luck egalitarianism - and draws out the potential implications for Basic Income debates on that basis.
Venue: MB A24, Caerleon Campus
Time: 2pm
Though all are very much welcome, places are limited. For further details, and/or to confirm that you would like to attend, please contact Gideon Calder.
Just a quick message to say that you can now get the latest news from the school via Twitter:
http://twitter.com/UWN_SHSS
If you aren’t sure what Twitter is, here’s a little clip from last week’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross where he discusses the online service with Stephen Fry...
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Click here to watch the above clip in high quality
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