November 17, 2008
The JISC-funded project on formative e-assessment () is being carried out by the Institute of Education, University of London. Using the Planet methodology (), the project is building a series of case studies, design patterns and scenarios of formative assessment involving a variety of electronic tools and software. These aim to describe the processes involved in formative assessment in ...
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November 11, 2008
Yesterday we ran several workshops designed to introduce the Leeds Met Repository (comprising PERSoNA and Streamline) as an integrated system-in-development and to have colleagues engage with some of the tools that will eventually (soon!) be incorporated into a complementary infrastructure surrounding the repository and facilitating easy and intuitive deposit, discovery and sharing of a myriad of different scholarly ...
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November 11, 2008
We have now implemented an early version of a Blog supporting access to various repository tools for Leeds Met: The intent is to include key information and tools including: a link to the Leeds Met Repository web based search for the repository web based one click deposit to the repository (via SWORD) SHERPA/RoMEO widget making visible RSS feeds for internal collections access to social bookmarking ...
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November 10, 2008
The Edspace projec at Southampton asking similar questions to us about who will have access to RLOs: ...
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November 02, 2008
At T-2hrs, I put in my own little bid for the Knight News Challenge. Have a look, have your say, and if you fancy - vote: this project will connect existing open-source tools and web2.0 sites to create a platform that will allow users to broadcast and subscribe to news by location, time, and topic. Users ...
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November 02, 2008
At T-2hrs, I put in my own little bid for the Knight News Challenge. Have a look, have your say, and if you fancy - vote: this project will connect existing open-source tools and web2.0 sites to create a platform that will allow users to broadcast and subscribe to news by location, time, and topic. Users ...
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November 02, 2008
I thought I might as well. At T-2hrs, I put in my own little bid for the Knight News Challenge: this project will connect existing open-source tools and web2.0 sites to create a platform that will allow users to broadcast and subscribe to news by location, time, and topic. Users will be able to send and receive items by ...
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October 31, 2008
Eric Lee has applied for $80,000 from Knight News Challenge to upgrade LabourStart. LabourStart is An online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers which aims to serve the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information — and by assisting unions in campaigning and other ways. Its features include daily labour news links in more ...
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October 24, 2008
Beth is making real progress with her dissertation and her outputs are looking really good. There is the small matter of copyright however - Beth is quite happy for me to use her material/IPR but a lot of her data is from a questionnaire and in depth interviews with research staff who have given only verbal consent for ...
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October 24, 2008
Yesterday I spoke to colleagues at the monthly TEL network meeting which, technical problems notwithstanding, was an opportunity to engage, in particular, with learning technologists who should prove invaluable as intermediaries back to their respective faculties. I wasn’t actually able to show them intraLibrary itself as the network seemed to have developed bahavioural problems but I did show the ...
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