Second edition of the printed Hoot for Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) goes LIVE!

<div class&equals;"fr-view"><p>In May this year we <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;weve-launched-a-print-magazine-for-students-in-secure-environments&sol;">published our first ever print edition of the Hoot for our Students in Secure Environments &lpar;SiSE&rpar;<&sol;a>&period; As these students do not ordinarily have access to the internet&comma; they had not been able to read or contribute to The Hoot before receiving the printed edition in the post&period; The plan was to publish a new printed edition every 6 months&comma; aiming to keep our SiSE colleagues in the loop of what’s going on and to make them feel more connected to their wider student community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We are happy to announce that the second edition has now been finalised and posted out to each secure facility who have OU students in their care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the first edition was a collection of past Hoot articles previously published online&comma; we wanted to build on this for the second edition by including some new&comma; bespoke content of particular relevance to the SiSE audience&period; So this edition includes a newly written article by one of our Library Study Volunteers about their work helping SiSE with their research needs&comma; a page focusing on findings from the recent Students Association SiSE survey&comma; and a specially penned version of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;world-suicide-prevention-day-and-the-samaritans&sol;">recent Samaritans article<&sol;a> that featured in the online Hoot&comma; focusing more in depth on Samaritans in prisons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In May’s edition we also invited students to contribute to the November edition and we’re happy to report that we were taken up on this by one student&period; In their article &OpenCurlyQuote;A Splash of Colour’&comma; they lament the use of monotone in printed OU materials and the printed SiSE newsletter they had received&period; It’s a brilliant insight into one of the challenges these students face in undertaking their studies&semi; a challenge that perhaps many of us don’t fully consider when we read from a screen in pleasing colour&period; You can read about the reasons for monotone materials and a solution that we hope will help&comma; in our response to the student included alongside their article in the newsletter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this latest edition we again invite students to contribute to the next publication&comma; planned for around May 2023&period; As we did last time&comma; we have included pre-paid envelopes with the newsletters so that students can post their writing to us free of charge&comma; and we have also suggested a way they may be able to arrange for their contribution to be emailed to us on their behalf&period; We would love to receive some more contributions from SiSE for our next edition&comma; as the one we have published this time really helps to bring the newsletter to life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We hope that the latest print edition of the Hoot helps our Students in Secure Environments to feel included&comma; part of their OU student community&comma; and up to date with what’s been going on here on The Hoot&period; And we hope that in reading this article and the newsletter&comma; you in turn feel more connected to your SiSE colleagues as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;oustudents&period;com&sol;assets&sol;site&lowbar;resources&sol;SiSE&percnt;20Magazine&percnt;20Issue&percnt;202&percnt;20November&percnt;202022&percnt;20PRINT&period;pdf">download a pdf of the full newsletter<&sol;a> from the Students Association website&comma; and we have also now made the bespoke articles written especially for this printed SiSE edition available on The Hoot online as well&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;sise-survey-highlights&sol;">SiSE survey highlights<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;a-splash-of-colour&sol;">A splash of colour<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;world-suicide-prevention-day-samaritans&sol;">World Suicide Prevention Day &amp&semi; Samaritans – SiSE edition<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;being-a-library-study-volunteer&sol;">Being a Library Study Volunteer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"zfWrap">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<h3 class&equals;"zfTitle"><&sol;h3>&NewLine; <figure class&equals;"zfMedia zfimage">&NewLine; <img width&equals;"1414" height&equals;"2000" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;SiSE-Magazine-Issue-2-OctNov-2022-FINAL&period;jpg&quest;fit&equals;1414&percnt;2C2000&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" class&equals;"" alt&equals;"" style&equals;"" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;SiSE-Magazine-Issue-2-OctNov-2022-FINAL&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;1414&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1 1414w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;SiSE-Magazine-Issue-2-OctNov-2022-FINAL&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;212&percnt;2C300&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1 212w&comma; 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Tom Mitchell
Tom is a member of the Students Association staff team.