Opportunities for Achieving Competence in Personal Attributes for Personal & Professional Developments

This document lists descriptions of generic skills / personal attributes that are useful to consider in personal and professional development. It also describes some general competencies and offers some thoughts on how to create opportunities to achieve competence with a bias towards computer science & IT students. It is based on advice given by Career Destinations at the University of Southampton and other universities

Materials for generic student support

This is a group of items which can provide additional support to students with special requirements.

Tutor's guide to Study Skills Toolkit 2007

Tutor's guide for using the Study Skill's Toolkit learning objects - these are currently available to all 1st year undergraduates in the University via Blackboard. Produced by Julie Watson in elanguages.

Postgraduate Demonstration Skills

A PowerPoint presentation used to support a skills development session for postgraduate students who wish to act as demonstrators in lab and workshop sessions.

Study Skills Toolkit: Reference list for tutors

A complete reference list for tutors of all learning resources in the Study Skills Toolkit (as of Oct. 2008) available through Blackboard VLE

Oral Presentation Skills

This PowerPoint is used to support a workshop for University staff and students who are preparing a conference presentation. It highlights the major issues that they will need to consider when planning, practising and delivering their talk.

PowerPoint - basic skills training

This step-by-step guided worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint file introduce some key skills: - reorganising slides and bullets - creating speaker notes - printing slide handouts - including hyperlinks - adding images Simple stuff, but many find it useful - it uses Office 2004 (XP)

Research and Communication Skills

A Collection of Material for Research and Communication Skills

Study Skills: Precis and Argumentation

Society is catching up with the implications of the Web; its use is not straightforward and well-understood. Web Scientists will need to be able to handle arguments about equivocal perspectives on the Web's impact.

Sound Recording Skills presentation by Matt Grover

Covers defining a sound in terms of amplitude, frequency, time, timbre and space. How sound behaves within a space. Digital recording settings. Winchester School of Art loan equipment. Winchester School of Art editing software overview.

Academic study skills guides for students with dyslexia

Six downloadable guides produced by Dyslexia Services covering: academic writing; dissertations; memory, revision and exam techniques; note taking and note making; organisation and time management; reading and research skills

Towards a Skills Audit: identifying your experience

A workshop session which looks at skills from an employers perspective. Slides plus link to Graduate Recruiters Association. Used in first small group class of info1010 - covers ground rules, career destinations, typical earnings,types of jobs and skills evaluation. Slides are reference for interactive discussions

Reading and research skills

University of Southampton, Dyslexia Services have developed a range of academic study skills resources available to download. This resource supports reading and research skills.