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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 d.r.stanbury@rdg.ac.uk

• 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

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Foundation degree topic