I’ve set up a twapperkeeper archive for the #jiscel10 hash tag (http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/jiscel10) so we can use the eduserv summarizr tool.
I’ll post a link when their pipes clear.
Rob
November, 2010
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November 17, 2010 by Robin Englebright
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#jiscel10 – Have a Go- MyShowcase Moodle Plugin
November 17, 2010 by Robin Englebright
I’ve been itching to get my hands on the MyShowcase code, and today I managed to download the moodle block and install it.
The process is a doddle, although in the end I set up a windows XP vm as windows 7 was getting silly about permissions. I really should get round to getting an ubuntu dual boot going… but I digress.
All you have to do is drop the unzipped package into the moodle blocks folder, spark up moodle as admin and set the key.
The Core Application alpha code was released today, and I’m downloading this now with the aim of having an instance running tomorrow. I also hope to spend a bit more time adding stuff to the demo account.
For those of you attending the JISC online conference please join the discussion about the tool in the “Take control of your working life (David Sowden)” Have a Go area.
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#jiscel10 Have a Go – Xpert attribution- in the Xpert labs
November 17, 2010 by Robin Englebright
The JISC online pre-conference reading week is open. Having reviewed all of the offerings in the Have a Go area, I’m looking at some in a little more detail.
The Xpert media search and attribution service is a cracking tool, which has indexed over 120,000 learning objects from over 8000 providers, has a very simple interface and does all the tedious and tricky licence attribution stuff for you.
Underpinning Xpert are a wealth of techie treasures that made my eyes shine, and my heart skip a beat, they can all be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/labs/
There’s a code block to embed Xpert in your website, as I’ve done here:
<img src=”http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/images/logoresults.gif” /><form action=”http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php” method=”get” enctype=”multipart/form-data” target=”_blank”> <input type=”text” size=”70″ name=”keywords” style=”margin-bottom:15px” /><input type=”image” name=”search_all” value=”all” src=”http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/images/search.gif” /><input type=”hidden” name=”ukoer” value=”on” /></form>
There’s an API for Xpert which allows it to be queried and return CC licenced OER, no key required, in multiple formats, xml, rss, json, etc
So if you are developing a tool, system or webpage, you can directly integrate with the Xpert.
In php you’d add your search term to http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/cc_api_search_php/
and then use the results programmatically.
You may for instance build a VLE block that looked at your users course, checked it with an index of keywords and pulled up potentially useful youtube videos on their homepage.
For those unsure about the API there’s an SDK.
Of course all these capabilities are available as fantastically easy to use templates in the Xerte online Toolkits, no nerdiness needed. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.htm You can download and run on your own server, or have a go in the Techdis sandpit.
For those attending the JISC Online conference there is an elluminate tour of on Thursday, 18th, 13:00 – 14:00 which will be recorded.
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#jiscel10 Have a Go area is open for business
November 16, 2010 by Robin Englebright
Whilst the main conference sessions are not yet open, there are 18 sessions, both live and asynchronous in the Have a Go area, and the discussions for these are now open.
The Virtual World tours and orientations are all held in Second Life, and times are listed in the live events programme..
Other live events taking place in the pre-conference week are listed in the live events programme below – these are to do with the conference,
e.g. advice on using Elluminate, advice on getting the most out of the conference.
The social area coffee shop and resource sharing area are now open.
Letters from the Edge is the conference blog, which is now open.
On Wednesday the 17th from 9.30am to 10.30am in the JISC presentation room there is a drop in Elluminate session offering informal help and advice for delegates on using Elluminate. Well worth stopping in and making sure you have the required plugins.
Similarly in the afternoon from 2.30-3.30 there is a Second Life orientation session, and you need to pre-book this.
On Thursday 18th James Clay is running a “making the most of the conference” session in the JISC presentation Room from 9 to 10 am.
The second life orientation repeats itself from 10.30 to 11.30, and again booking in advance is required.
From 1-2pm The Xpert Media Search and Attribution Service will be running their Elluminate session.
Following on at 2- Lisa Vincent will be doing the first of her “Elluminate to communicate” whistle-stop tours of the moderation , please book in advance.
From 3-4pm there’s a Second life session on integrating virtual worlds with virtual learning environments.
From 4-5pm there’s a repeat of the drop in Elluminate orientation session.
Friday 19th starts at 9.30 to 10.30 am with an Elluminate session on Instructional design for e-learning.
10.30 to 11.30 there’s a second life event talking about the experiences of learning and teaching Art and Design in Second Life.
From 2-3pm Lisa is running the second of her “Elluminate to communicate” whistle-stop tours of the moderation , please book in advance.
The last pre-conference day, Monday the 22nd November (my birthday!) sees a Second Life session on Molecules and microbes running from 10-11am, for which you’ll need to pre-register.
1.30 to 2.30 sees another Second life event on “Immersion in Literature”, teaching poetry in Second life.
Finally 3-4pm a Second Life session on Assessing safety protocols on a virtual oil rig.
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#cetis10 – enrolment from $99
November 15, 2010 by Robin Englebright
Having been made redundant recently I’m perhaps more aware than some about the startling changes taking place in EVERY sector of UK education.
I come from FE which views itself as the whipping boy of education, so I’m quite used to being kicked around and surviving by the ancient art of “gleaning” and “hoarding” against the long cold funding winters.
What’s interesting in a ghoulish sort of way is that the present situation provides a very real test-bed for the principles and policies we have espoused regarding the capability of ILT to improve outcomes… because there won’t be cash for alternatives.
The sad thing is that most of real benefits come when ILT is used to support, and reinforce, rather than replace traditional learning.
The opening salvo at the CETIS conference 2010 gave a fast paced review of the state of the education nation from Anya Kamanetz, (@anya1anya ) author of DIY University Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education.
Often talks at conference discuss problems but offer no answers, Anya managed to cover so much ground that perhaps a couple of seeds offering alternative solutions were scattered.
P2PU http://p2pu.org/ The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. I signed up as soon as Anya mentioned it, as I felt it bridged the gap between the itunes U MIT courses I’ve been working through, and some of the informal adult learning networks.
I tried to sign up to a course blending philosophy with app design, but was too late for this cycle of sessions. The good news is that unlike the local Adult ed offerings i won’t have to wait till next year to re-apply.
P2PU is built on open educational resources, so I can freely read ahead in preparation for the next round.
If you already have a programme of study, then perhaps you need to use the power of http://openstudy.com/ which promotes itself as “the world’s largest study group”, applying the tenets of social networking to the world of peer supported study.
Finally if you want to look at what the future may offer, as an alternative to £9,000 a year tuition fees http://www.straighterline.com/ are offering enrolment for $99 plus $39 per course. Discount learning opportunities, at your convenience, and they take paypal.
I spent the afternoon discussing Integrating and Subverting Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes, and gained an insight into how HE systems interoperate, or don’t interoperate.
Tomorrow I’m looking at linked data.
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#JISCEL10 – HAVE A GO – COUNTDOWN 4 DAYS
November 12, 2010 by Robin Englebright
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve looked at each of the exhibits in the Have a Go area.
I can say truthfully I have changed the way I work because of some of these exhibits:
· I now have the Xpert media search as a link in my browser bar, so I don’t have to faff about with attribution of images and checking clearance any more.
· I’m considering how best to use elluminate or other tools to support the work on the SWaNI LTIG (Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland learning and teaching innovation grants), where the projects will be spread across a vast geographical area.
· I’m reflecting on the legal aspects of recording and sharing of audio video and photos, and know where to find guidance if I’m concerned.
All this and the pre-conference hasn’t even begun. I’m looking forward to the discussions and debates which turn a collection of web resources into a conference.
There will be discussion fora in each of the Have a Go areas, and I’ll be joining in.
But don’t forget there’s a whole Conference proper out there too, with keynote speakers.
In light of recent events I think I’m most interested to hear the student voice, and on Tuesday 23rd from 16.00 to 17.00 Usman Ali and Aaron Porter will be speaking on the results of NUS research into student experience.
The Conference runs from the 23rd – 26th November 2010, and the pre-conference activity and reading week opens on 16th November 2010 and offers a chance to become familiar with the conference environment and try out innovative JISC projects in the ‘have-a-go’area.
See you there!Book online – early registration advisable for full participation in the pre-conference week
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference10/booking
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#jiscel10 – Have a Go- learning design – Countdown 5 days
November 11, 2010 by Robin Englebright
“This video presentation showcases the work in progress on the Learning Design Support Environment, LDSE (www.ldse.org.uk). This is a design tool to support teachers in the learning design process, including: visualising, planning, resourcing, adopting, adapting, reusing, and modelling pedagogy. Theoretical underpinnings of this multifaceted support model are derived from the Conversational Framework (Laurillard, 2002).”
Building the learning design support environment.
When I read the abstract for this Have a Go area exhibit I must have had mucky glasses as instead of “derived from the Conversational Framework (Laurillard, 2002).”I read:
“derived from the Controversial Framework Frank(Laurillard, 2002).”
Such are the minor failings of age.
As excited as I was to read the Controversial Framework that “Frank” had put together, I was just as intrigued by the prospect of another useful tool.
The LDSE tool is still being developed, but I was distracted by the pedagogic planner tool, which provides a range of learning templates into which concepts can be dropped, giving a really quick way of generating a learning and teaching session.
When I test content creation tools and lesson planning apps I use a standard lesson I used to teach to Agricultural engineers which introduces Logic gates. The process of using the tool was swift and simple, and I’m quite intrigued at the prospect of the Full LDSE tool.Copies of the LDSE software will be made available for those participants who wish to try it out for themselves (following the example in the screen cast video).
The Pedagogic planner is the subject of another Have a Go area exhibit titled “Can teaching Practice be reused across subject and Institutional boundaries? Yes it can!”
The Conference runs from the 23rd – 26th November 2010, and the pre-conference activity and reading week opens on 16th November 2010 and offers a chance to become familiar with the conference environment and try out innovative JISC projects in the ‘have-a-go’ area.
See you there!Book online – early registration advisable for full participation in the pre-conference week
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference10/booking
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#jiscel10 – Have a Go- Cloudworks Virtual Fieldtrip- Countdown 6 days
November 10, 2010 by Robin Englebright
I first came across Cloudworks at the JISC CETIS conference in 2008. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it, and struggled to engage. I guess I’d probably have described it as a education centric version of NING.
I caught up with Gráinne Conole and Rebecca Galley at a recent JISC Curriculum design event and they explained very succinctly what Cloudworks is. I recorded this as a brief soundbite, complete with Gilly Salmon chortling in the background.To summarize Cloudworks is a social networking site designed for sharing, finding and discussing learning and teaching ideas and experiences.
Cloudworks has been developed in the belief that one of the key challenges in encouraging more innovative learning design is getting teachers to share designs and ideas. Cloudworks aims to support participatory practices (peer critiquing, sharing, user-generated content, aggregation and personalisation) within an educational context, and promote reflective professional practice and development.In the Have a Go area there will be a virtual field trip which will look at the key concepts of the site, emerging patterns of use and suggest strategies for finding your way around.
The Conference runs from the 23rd – 26th November 2010, and the pre-conference activity and reading week opens on 16th November 2010 and offers a chance to become familiar with the conference environment and try out innovative JISC projects in the ‘have-a-go’ area.
See you there!Book online – early registration advisable for full participation in the pre-conference week
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference10/booking
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#jiscel10 – Have a Go- Anytime learning Literacies Environment – Countdown 7 days
November 9, 2010 by Robin Englebright
I’m delighted to be working on the JISC Learning and Teaching innovation Grant (LTIG) Call for FE in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (SWaNI), because I’ve seen the fascinating work that has been made possible through this funding route. The deadline for SWaNI LTIG bids is noon today the 9th November, and I’m excited to see what projects will be submitted.
A previous project funded through the LTIG call ‘Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLE)’ project (http://alle.tvu.ac.uk) is taking part in the Online Conference Have a Go area.
The project created a series of learning objects to help develop student learning and literacy skills (http://hermes.tvu.ac.uk/learnerjourney/index.html).
-the digital tools journey,
– the library journey
– the academic journey.
They are being used by first-year business students in two universities. Thames Valley University are scaffolding the journey within the curriculum, whilst at London Metropolitan University students are being encouraged to use the journey according to their needs.
One of the outcomes of the project is that the learner journey and its component parts (the individual topic-based learning objects) will be made available for other institutions to be able to adapt them to their specific needs. The learning objects have been created using the GLO Maker authoring tool (http://www.glomaker.org) which enables them to be easily edited and adapted.
The Conference runs from the 23rd – 26th November 2010, and the pre-conference activity and reading week opens on 16th November 2010 and offers a chance to become familiar with the conference environment and try out innovative JISC projects in the ‘have-a-go’ area.
See you there!Book online – early registration advisable for full participation in the pre-conference week
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference10/booking
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#SWaNI LTIG last chance for proposals, deadline noon 9th Nov
November 8, 2010 by Robin Englebright
I thought it worth posting a brief reminder that the deadline for initial proposal submission for the Scottish Welsh and Northern Irish Further Education focussed Learning Teaching Innovation Grants is Tuesday 9th at noon… tomorrow lunchtime.
If you’ve been working on a bid, don’t forget to send it…
All the details you need are here:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/09/grant1010.aspx
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