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JISC Innovation Forum 08
July 16, 2008 |
As I was only able to make one of the two days of this event mine can only be a partial (as in ‘part’ not ‘biased’) view. No doubt there will be a few grumbles about Keele (some of the buildings did seem a bit shabby, apparently the accommodation was a little ‘retro’) but then again it doesn’t pretend to be the Mandarin Oriental. However the Forum (aka Programme Meeting if anyone can remember previous events) does genuinely seem an opportunity to bring together those people beavering away ion projects around the country
The thing which struck me was the richness of the particular examples contained within projects, and how directly they can speak before we ‘JISCify’ them and squeeze the humanity out of them. The short video clips of students and their technology experiences were excellence and should help ground us in an area that gets a little too grand for itself at times.
For me, a range of recent experiences are strengthening the view that we at JISC need to be better at telling stories in order to get our point across - sometime when we do this such as in the eFramework and Access Management animations, it can be revelatory. How good would it be to have more of this sort of approach (though hopefully not too many bandwagon-jumping animations) to shed light on the arcane world of Business and Community Engagement, say, or other area of work like the Information Environment and so forth
