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May 07, 2008
Skills development conference
May 07, 2008
A date for your diary possibly. The University of Teesside will be hosting a conference on 15th October 2008 featuring papers from 4 U&I Projects working in the 'student skills' cluster : ARGOSI, AWESOME Dissertation, SkillClouds and UKAN-SKILLS. It will be free but with an admin fee for delegates who cancel late or do not attend. More details will ...
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January 17, 2008
UKAN-SKILLS project
January 17, 2008
Below is a draft version of our poster for the York event next week. Looking forward to seeing everyone thereA team led by University of Teesside Library & Information Services has been successful in a bid for funding of £50,000 from the JISC Next Generation Technologies and Practice Phase 2 Programme. The team includes the University ...
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December 18, 2007
UIDM and our project
December 18, 2007
Well, our UKAN-SKILLS project (University of Teesside Library in collaboration with University of Prince Edward Island) was successful with a 'small' bid. Naturally, like all bidders, we used UIDM in our preparation. We found it to be a really useful approach for broader activities beyond software development and hope to include a 'toolkit' for use locally as one of ...
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September 20, 2007
Student expectations
September 20, 2007
The quote below from the recent JISC-supported Ipsos MORI report on the expectations of potential HE students () has led to some useful discussion here in my department: These young people have grown up with technology as an intrinsic part of their lives, and expect that this will only increase with time. Although ...
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September 19, 2007
Good luck to everyone (non-tech blog entry)
September 19, 2007
As Dave Cormier and I put the final touches to our UKCAN-SKILLS project bid document, I want to wish everyone I've had contact with here on Emerge good luck with their bids. I won't be able to make the Future of Emerge Community session on 9th (ill parent situation) but hope to benefit from and input to Emerge in ...
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July 25, 2007
a UIDM-based toolkit
July 25, 2007
The best by-product of being in Emerge Stage 1 has been contact with the UIDM. Our Stage 2 bid partneship (based round using Web2.0 and CoP to aid the acquisition of 'skills' in FE/HE) has used the draft UIDM Guide at a number of staff development/bonding sessions. UIDM seems to be an adeqaute and scaleable model so far and ...
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July 03, 2007
Anti-social networking sites
July 03, 2007
A couple of months back I was a bit dismayed that one of our groups of short-haired Year 11s explained how they'd used their new MySpace site to organise a fight with fellow chavs from a neighbouring school. I didn't feel somehow I could include this new skill/knowledge in my grant report outcomes.I was relieved therefore to see in ...
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June 22, 2007
Digital divide
June 22, 2007
We looked at the new report by FutureLab (at ) this morning in a staff devlopment session and it provoked a lot of good ...
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June 08, 2007
Getting together
June 08, 2007
Cristina Costa and I invite everyone to a Skype chat at noon on Friday 22nd June. Cristina will give details on advance contact. We see this as part of encouraging a cafe culture amongst teams. There is also (of course) the Emerge Community Showcase Chat facility for informal discussion (although it's mostly deserted at present)Paul ...
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June 07, 2007
Graffiti
June 07, 2007
Attendees at the online sessions over the last couple of days have shown tremendous enthusiasm for and skills at graffiti We use the very simple but effective site as a time-filler between sessions for our younger users. If anyone wants to submit an ArtPad picture or pictures to me (paul.mayes@tees.ac.uk) on a theme of "Emerge success criteria" there ...
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