7 June 2011

Supporting our students - blogging our journey to enhance the student experience

Take me back even a few years (days more like!)and these words would be composed on a Word Doc; this would be an electronic team newsletter with a splurge of clipart breaking up the narrative. How archaic that all appears now. I am informed that the only way to chart your life in the modern world is by blog. As such and for convenience for you, and indeed I, this site intends to provide a regular update on the activity taking place at Keele to enhance the student experience. It will provide a place and space for the work of the staff and teams across Student Support and Development Services and other service providers to be highlighted.
There is no shortage of excellent initiatives and activity taking place across Keele University at the moment. A commitment to transforming the student experience, the development of the Distinctive Keele Curriculum, the restructure of Student Support which sees the Centre for Learning and Student Support (CLASS) change to Student Support and Development Services (SSDS) present us all with an opportunity to create an environment within which staff and students alike are able to reach their potential through partnership, active engagement and a development of community and belonging.
Your stories and updates for inclusion in what is a blog for all that is Student Support and Development will be greatly appreciated- so an email or a conversation is all it will take for me to get your experiences and great work online so we and all our colleagues can see what is happening across and beyond the Keele campus in relation to the support and development of our students.
Here's to blogging in it's infancy
Ian Munton

2 comments:

  1. So it turns out you're a natural. Why am I not surprised!

    Can't wait to hear more and am adding you to my blog list right now...

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  2. Hi all, Great start! You might like to have a look at the kinds of things we've been doing in the School of Sociology & Criminology too?
    http://socandcrimatkeele.blogspot.com/
    http://www.facebook.com/SocandCrimKeele
    http://twitter.com/socandcrimKeele

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