Safer Internet Day

E-safety

Tuesday 5th February is Safer Internet Day - a day which focuses on being safe online. This year the Safer Internet Centre's theme is "together for a better internet". The idea behind this year's theme is that we can all choose to make a difference when we use the internet and communicate on the web just as we can as we interact with people in our physical environment.

The Centre offers 5 tips for how we can choose to behave and make the internet a better place:

• Choose to ask for consent
• Choose to be supportive and positive
• Choose to be in control
• Choose to find out more
• Choose to talk about it

To find out more about what these mean follow the 5 tips link above. You'll also find lots more relevant information about e-safety and this year's campaign.

SID TV 2019 has also launched a YouTube video presented by young people about Consent Online.

The video is also available with subtitles and British Sign Language here.

Diversity Day & Geospatial mapping

Diversity Day

It's that time of year again and the LRC were manning a stand at the College's Diversity Day event last week.

We asked students to mark on a map where they come from.

Diversity Day map on LRC stand
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

One of our LRC assistants created a Tagxedo image of the places students mentioned.

Tagxedo showing where students come from

Geospatial Mapping Resource

If you want to find out some of the areas of the UK where students were born, remember that you have access to digital maps of different kinds through the  Geospatial Data resource. You can add symbols and labels to the maps, plot routes, add layers and print off A4 maps. Access is available from the LRC electronic resources page on Moodle. There are also video demonstrations linked within the resource.

Online access to Vogue magazines, photos and articles

Vogue Archive

Did you know that as a student or member of staff at PRC or UCP you have free access to the full archive of American Vogue from it's first issue in 1892 until the latest edition. The link to this is found on the Electronic Resources page on Moodle.

This includes photography, fashion, articles, adverts - in fact whole (in most cases) digitised copies of the original magazines which you can use as part of your course or for your own interest.

We advise you to use the Advanced search as then you can search specifically - for a particular accessory or fashion item , for example, or look for images by a particular photographer/ fashion designer. Alternatively if you want to look through whole magazines, you can browse individual issues.

For a comprehensive guide to using this resource click here. Alternatively ask a member of LRC staff to show you if you are unsure.

Fashion Show photo by AhmadArdity (CC0 Creative Commons)
from  https://pixabay.com/en/fashion-show-fashion-catwalk-model-1746581/
(Not from the Vogue Archive)

Who may find this useful?

Art students - Look at textile design or use the resources to inspire your own designs. Look at fashion or textiles as an art form and see it in it's context so you can understand what influences certain designs at certain times.

Photography students - Look at techniques used for fashion photography and photographing people. Study the lighting used perhaps or look for examples of effects you would like to create.

Media and Journalism students - Look at journalism styles and content through time or currently. Study and soak up techniques used in one of the leading fashion journals.

Hair and Beauty students - You can view hairstyle and make-up trends at a particular time in history and read the techniques used to create the various styles at the time. The more recent issues will show more up to date trends.

Performing Arts students - Like hair and beauty students you can see how actors should dress and look in something set in the past or in the fashion industry and try to recreate these authentically for a production.

Marketing students - Look at advertising and brand creation either currently or through time and within one industry (i.e. fashion).

Sociology students who for example want to look at how gender and class are portrayed over time or within or through fashion or advertising might find this useful. Images give an idea of popular culture at a particular time.

Anyone interested in fashion who has an interest in fashion (historical or present day).

Welcome back and LRC new drop-in sessions

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to College and we hope you enjoyed the festive break and are all set to work hard in 2019. Last week LRC staff manned a stand at the College's Staff Development Day event - Carousel of Learning - and spoke to a number of staff about the sessions and resources we offer. If you are a member of staff and missed this, feel free to come and talk to us if you want more information.

New for 2019 - LRC Lunchtime Drop-Ins 

This term the LRC librarians will be running short workshops/ drop-ins at lunchtime on Thursdays and Fridays in the LRC (Pod C). Thursday slots are 12.15-12.45pm and Friday slots are 1.15-1.45pm

Pod in the LRC
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

The themes of these will be:

Beyond Google - using Google Scholar and searching Google more effectively.

Using LRC Online Resources - introduction to e-books, online journal articles, newspapers and other interactive learning materials.

Referencing and Plagiarism - find out what plagiarism is and how to reference.

Box of Broadcasts - find out how to record, view and search for TV and radio programmes, create playlists and clips.

Information searching skills - how to search effectively and how to know good websites from bad.

Each session will run twice - once each half of the term. Please see posters in the LRC and around the college. The first one is next week - 17th January 2019.

We can only take a maximum of 5-6 students at a time (but if more of you want to attend it may be better that we come to your tutorial/ class if your lecturer is happy).

Drop-ins will have a planned structure but we don't need to keep strictly to this and we can use the time to address questions students have. If you have your own laptop you may wish to bring this with you but this isn't essential. (The LRC has laptops for use but these are in high demand so don't rely on this).

We look forward to meeting you at these sessions over the coming weeks. Any queries, please ask at the LRC desk.

Christmas quiz in the LRC

LRC Christmas Quiz

Can you identify the films/ books/ productions portrayed around the different areas in the LRC? Well done to the LRC staff who put in a lot of time (often their own) and thought to creating these.

Last day for entries are early Friday (14th) so do come in and take part for the chance to win a prize.

As a taster, have a look at the following selection to see if you can guess what they portray. 

 

All photos by Peterborough Regional College.

Time Management

Introducing Time management

At the latest Staff Student Liaison Committee some of the student reps requested some help with time management. This is a life skill relevant to everyone whatever their role. We all seem so busy and have trouble fitting everything in to our week. We've put together some tips and resources you might find useful.


First of all how about finding out how good you are at managing your time using this short quiz? This will help you reflect on how/ whether you manage your time.

Tips and online resources

Plan your week - work out how you typically use your time in a standard week using ARU's weekly time tracker. You can then also use their weekly and termly planners (go to the bottom of the webpage) to plan ahead. See also their time management guide on the Getting Organised page of their Study Skills Plus section.


List your activities - there can be a satisfaction in listing jobs and ticking them off. In an ideal world you do your thinking and planning now and then next week you just do what you've scheduled (or at least you don't spend so much time thinking about what you should be doing). In your time tracker you will have identified how much time is needed for which activity so you can spread your activities out over a week realistically in your planner.


Prioritise your activities/ tasks -Identify which tasks are urgent, which are important, which are optional and which aren't important. If something is difficult (perhaps you just don't want to do it) or needs more attention, allocate time when you are freshest or have the most energy not when you are likely to be tired. See Skills you Need's Priority Matrix.


Don't procrastinate or get distracted - go to the labels on the right and choose study skills and you should find a post we did on procrastination in June 2017. Turn your phone off, work somewhere where there aren't things around to distract you (you may find working in the LRC may be a suitable environment for you to work in with less distractions).

Other resources

The Learn Higher website has various short activities you can do to help with time management.


If you prefer watching videos to learn see the BBC Skillswise video on time management.

Alternatively, you may find this video useful:

There are various TED talks you can watch too of course (but do you have the time?).

Fantastic Beasts event

Fantastic Beasts

See below for photos from our Fantastic Beasts event last week.




Fantastic Beasts craft stall provided by Youth Centre
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

Photograph your Pet competition
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

Animal Care stall (with stick insects etc.)
Photo: Peterborough Regional College

Owl from the Raptor Foundation
Photo:Peterborough Regional College



Thanks to Hair and Beauty students for their face painting creations of fantastic beasts and to catering students for making and selling refreshments. The LRC tombola raised £75 for Wood Green Animal Shelter. Thank you everyone and to the LRC assistants who planned and organised it.