JISC online

We are at the beginning of the 2008 JISC online conference & I would like to share some nuggets that have come my way:

• The first is a shameless promotion of how we at RSC WM use the Virtual Learning environment Moodle to run online events:
  

http://www.viddix.com/watch.php?v=48f45ff45ee7c and download the PPT from my slideshare account

• A related collaboration with Staffordshire University models of best practice resulted in a set of online models;
  

Webinars,
Workshops, Conferences, Courses,

• A fantastic webfolio presentation by Julie Hughes on her 5 year experiences of using eportfolios as a teacher trainer.
  
  
• A blended learning design hand book http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/study/computing/weblearn/enticepathfinderproject/
  
  
  
• A moodle block called Marginalia and standalone application, which is an open source Javascript web annotation system that allows users of web applications to highlight text and write margin notes.
  

NEW BUILDS

• Have a look at the IntelligentBuilders (NB all one word) channel on Youtube http://uk.youtube.com/user/intelligentbuilders - many videos can be found on the eLearning experience at Oaklands College including on New build, eLearning generally and the award winning eMentors scheme. Or try :

• • http://learnergeneratedcontexts.ning.com/
    
    
  • http://learnergeneratedcontexts.pbwiki.com/
    
    
  • http://www.learnergeneratedcontexts.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

  
  

• The Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups.
  

  
  

• Professor Gilly Salmon gave a live presentation using Elluminate on the subject of forecasting trends in education. Her team @ Leicester will research this and post results in the CALF website. Seven meta trends are:
  

  
  

1. Users as content producers (web 2.0 principle)
   
2. Games as pedagogical tools (hurrah, I loved Halo 3)
   
3. Communications between humans and machines
   
4. Ubiquitous platforms
   
5. 3 dimensions of computing
   
6. Collective knowledge generation (another web 2.0 principle)
   
7. People connecting via the network
   

When asked about engaging senior managers at FE colleges, Gilly responded by promoting the use of research based evidence to persuade SMT to change practice. So all of those posts about new research centres should be worthwhile?