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© University of Reading 2006 www.reading.ac.uk/ccms
Free add-ons for Destinations®
David Stanbury, Joint Acting CETL Director
Free to Destinations® users
• Advice pages• Videos • Assignments• Lesson plans • Localised pages• Subject specific content• New topics
– International students– Foundation degrees
• Free material is shared via the Community Google Group
Destinations® Community Group
• http://groups.google.com/group/destinations-community – A place to discuss and share
• To join – your HEI needs to supply an institutional profile – You need to email [email protected]
• Once you have joined please create an individual user profile
• Participation is open to any staff at organisations using Destinations®.
Examples of free extras
1. Subject specific pages (some of these were on the Destinations® 2.0 DVD)
2. Advice pages (10 of these pages will be available at the end of April)
3. Viral marketing game (based on a careers fair)
4. International students Topic – PEP (details of how to obtain this have available from the Google group)
5. Foundation Degree topic
Subject specific material
Subject specific material
Advice pages
http://www.reading.ac.uk/destinations-test/units/explore.shtml
Advice pages
• Each advice page orientates the reader to a situation by breaking it down into several key parts
Advice pages II
• Each ‘click-and-reveal’ section ‘hides’ text
Advice pages III
• And gives deep links to relevant pages in Destinations® and videos
Viral marketing game • Viral marketing works where the message is passed on from
person to person.
• Many viral marketing means use web based games.
• CCMS has developed one around a careers fair.
• Students pick a character. The aim is to collect as many points at the careers fair before you are caught by the porter!
• It is available in two forms– A game that can simply be embedded in your website (to attract
students)– Or a version that allows students to email their score and a link to
the site to a friend.
• Further details and installation instructions are on the Google Group
Viral marketing game – start page
The game itself
© University of Reading 2006 www.reading.ac.uk/ccms
Foundation degree topic
