Author: ishbel

Short UG internship: Athena Swan repository

A required project for the SICSA Athena SWAN initiative is to create a repository (website, resource centre, database of statistics) for the SICSA universities ASWAN submissions. The Athena SWAN awards are to do with encouraging more women into the CS area from schools up to senior staff. This work will help CS Schools gather statistics on student numbers and staff numbers as well as good practice events, talks or resources. A notional £500 is associated with the work, 60 hours work.

Please contact Ishbel if you are interested.

Virtual Worlds for Immersive Learning

Alan Miller and Ishbel Duncan are running a special session at CSEDU 2013 (in May in Aachen) on using Virtual Worlds for learning. Levels of learning, applicable learning theories, student interaction, avatar interaction, learning contexts and evaluation are all open for discussion.
The due date for papers is February 27 2013 and more information can be found on
http://www.csedu.org/SpecialSessions.aspx#VWIL

UKCISA grant

Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.

MacMillan Coffee Morning (Friday)

From 10.30am onwards on Friday morning in the JCB coffee area, we will be hosting a MacMillan coffee morning. All proceeds from the sales of cakes, biscuits or produce will go to support the MacMillan Cancer Support service. This is a service that allows terminal patients to remain in their own homes for their last days, supported by a MacMillan nurse.

Donations of goods are welcome, otherwise come along and buy some home baking.  A raffle will be held with prizes including sloe gin, champagne and chocolates.

Event details

  • When: 30th September 2011 10:30 - 12:00
  • Where: Cole Coffee Area