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November 07, 2008
Mechanical Turk
November 07, 2008
UKAN-SKILLS is using Amazon Mechanical Turk as a way of crowdsourcing a specialised software task. We would be interested to hear from any other project or Emerge person that has used Mechanical Turk or other 'human intelligence task' services.Paul M ( paul.mayes@tees.ac.uk ...
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November 06, 2008
Blatant promotion for some of our helpers
November 06, 2008
This is a picture of a pizza-supported team meeting for some of the excellent young entrepreneurs who have helped with our various projects. They are available (through smartvalley@tees.ac.uk ) at a reasonable rate if you ever quickly need someone to garner user-input for people aged 14-20 (they have access to previously unsurveyed people from all youth 'tribes', genders, educational ...
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October 15, 2008
HEA / JISC project announcement
October 15, 2008
This news of future funding looks to be interesting to a lot of us. It also seems a very good idea in itself ...
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October 14, 2008
Crowdsourced help needed
October 14, 2008
We would like to make it easier for students and staff to mark up different styles of writing with colour highlighting in Word 2007. Users find it slow to select, pull down etc each time to get to and choose from the highlight colour palette. We can offer a £200 crowdsourcing prize to anyone who can keep the colour ...
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UKAN-SKILLS - good progress
October 14, 2008
Our Project web site describes the many user-driven strands that have emerged for UKAN-SKILLS. Dave Cormier's demonstration repository (at ) now has its first batch of permission-cleared learning material. These objects will be linked to the online curriculum maps being developed by Janet A. Hale of curriculummapping101.com. Janet has written for us a very useful background paper for us ...
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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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