{"id":1424,"date":"2017-02-08T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/engage-in-teaching-and-learning\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:32:04","slug":"how-would-you-describe-our-students-by-ellie-highwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/2017\/02\/08\/how-would-you-describe-our-students-by-ellie-highwood\/","title":{"rendered":"How would you describe our students? By Ellie Highwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>At the Curriculum framework conference on 25th January 2017, it was a delight to present with Sed Joshi, Diversity and Inclusion Sabbatical officer from RUSU on the topic of \u201cHow well do we know our students?\u201d We gave staff a quiz, presented facts and figures about our students from the Annual Diversity and Inclusion Report, and discussed what we are doing to try to make our staff body look more like our student body. Video testimonies from students told us why this was important and also what made them feel included.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s always good to try new technology, and we decided to adopt something I learnt from the Association of Science Educations conference \u2013 an evolving word cloud. So, we asked 73 participants for 3 words they would use to descri<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-112 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/diversereading\/files\/2017\/01\/wordcloud-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/>be our students, and via Mentimeter, got this (Size of words indicates how many times that response was made):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps given that we were primed by being in a session about diversity it is not a surprise that the largest word is diverse! What would you add?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was originally posted on the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/diversereading\/\">Diversity and Inclusion blog<\/a> created by the Deans for Diversity and Inclusion, Ellie Highwood and Simon Chandler-Wilde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Curriculum framework conference on 25th January 2017, it was a delight to present with Sed Joshi, Diversity and Inclusion Sabbatical officer from RUSU on the topic of \u201cHow well do we know our students?\u201d We gave staff a quiz, presented facts and figures about our students from the Annual Diversity and Inclusion Report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,24,204],"tags":[557,550],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/t-and-l-exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}