Apr
17
Adieu Birmingham, Salut Edinburgh!
April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Well the JISC Conference 2008 seemed to go pretty well all told - the huge amounts of work put in by lots of people over months and months all over in a few hours… Well thats no longer quite true. The effort put into the online side has already extended both the reach and span […]
Apr
11
JISC Conference 2008
April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here we go - just entering the mild panic stage prior to next weeks JISC conference on 15 April at the International Conferennce Centre in Birmingham. This year we had to close the books quite early as we filled all the sessions quickly - now have over 850 people coming which sounds a bit like […]
Feb
22
Renater to Host Events in Paris
February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TF-PR Meeting – 21 February 2008
France will be hosting the European Research and Innovation Exhibition between 5 and 7 June 2008 at Porte de Versailles in Paris www.European-research-exhibition.com and the ‘European City of Science’ again in Paris in the Grand Palais between 14-16 November 2008. The European City of Science is being held to […]
Jan
11
We Are All Twits
January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
I am having one of my’ do I believe it or don’t I ‘ moments … the team has been churning over what we plan to do in terms of ‘new technology’ around the JISC Conference 2008 . Amongst other things it seems as if Twitter will play a part probably as a micro-blogging tool […]
Dec
7
The Latest HEA/JISC Event
December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Organising a joint event between two organisations is not an enviable task, and this third (?) gathering of disparate JISC and HEA staff only confirmed how hard this is. I will keep my (copious) comments and views about the half of this event that I experienced between me and the appropriate people, but it was […]
Nov
30
Reflections on Online Educa Berlin 2007
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In some respects this is always a quite difficult conference to judge - a large event (2200 delegates), multinational flavour despite its European heart, a session programme that tries hard to be even handed and cover a wide range of topics - but from a JISC and SURF perspective our objectives are longer term and […]
Nov
30
Radio Web Europe
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Online Educa 2007 - Session 2c - November 29
Speaker – Gonzalez Santamaria
Radio Web Europe is a Commission funded project to try and engage young people from across the EU about the future of Europe by using new technology. There are about 250 podcasts available posted on the project site
Nov
30
Learning with Closed Eyes
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Online Educa 2007 - Session 2b - November 29
Speakers; Harold Sturmer, Dr Okke Schluter – Studiengemeinshaft Darmstadt (SGD)
SGD are a private distance learning institute for further education and part of Klett publishers group. They deal with approximately 35-40,000 learners per year with their primary target group being adult learners
Their approach was based on […]
Nov
30
Use of Podcasts as a Learning Tool
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Online Educa 2007 - Session 2a November 29
Speaker Dr Ming Nie, Dr Palitha Edirisingha – Uni of Leicester
The project here looked at how podcasts could be used for geography, earth science, and environmental science (GEES subjects). The IMPALA project covered a range of projects of which 5 were related to geography implying that podcasts […]
Nov
30
Wikis in Education : Pubic, Semi-Public or Private – Which is Best?
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Online Educa 2007 - Session 1c November 29
Speaker – Sarah Guth, University of Padua
This related to a project to see whether there were advantages to fully public or semi-public wikis over closed ones.
In reviewing why people might use these technologies it was clear that they enable communications between people and organisations […]
