Notes from Centre for eLearning (C4eL) Meeting of 30 November 2006

These notes go some way towards an interim report for Thursday 7 December. present: Stuart Brown, Jan Haines, Richard Francis, Greg Benfield, George Roberts apols: Rhona Sharpe, John Lidgey Agenda: 1 Pathfinder Progress 2 Planning Meetings of 7 December 3 Other discussion 1.0 Pathfinder progress Discussion focussed on the Plan, submitted on 27 October paper … Continue reading Notes from Centre for eLearning (C4eL) Meeting of 30 November 2006

e-Learning Co-ordinators

Oxford Brookes e-Learning Co-ordinators for the Schools are Arts and Humanities: Virginia Crossman and Suzuko Anai (Languages) Built Environment: Gina Ennis-Reynolds Business: Berry O'Donovan Health and Social Care: Peter Bradley Life Sciences: Andrew Rosenthal Social Sciences and Law: vacant Technology: Douglas Higgison, Sharon Curtis Westminster Institute of Education: Jonathan Allen 01/12/2006

Draft agendas for 7 December

There are two related meetings on 7 December: Pathfinding project team 1000 - 1230 School e-Learning Co-ordinators Forum: 1230 - 1530 The visit of Terry Mayes links these events. Pathfinding project team 1000 - 1230 Draft Agenda Project Plan (241K Word doc) Infrastructures: Identification of appropriate softwares and platforms including the repository architecture for research … Continue reading Draft agendas for 7 December

Testing ecto settings

I use Ecto, an off-line blogging editor and archiving tool. Very handy for mobile and nomadic blogging at conferences, on the train, anywhere cannot connect to the Internet or do not want to be burning up the battery maintaining a wireless connection. It also keeps an archive of my posts on my machine, which I … Continue reading Testing ecto settings

Draft project plan

I have uploaded our draft plan here. This was the topic of a discussion with Terry Mayes, about which more shortly.

Why WordPress?

I have been using TypePad for blogs and will continue to do so. The Brookes Benchmarking blog is TypePad-driven. So is myWORLD. TypePad is owned by 6 Apart, who also have LiveJournal. LJ was the first of the "friends" networks and developed a lot of social software, which is open source, as well as a … Continue reading Why WordPress?

First internal outputs

We are beginning to get the word out across the University that something is happening. Presentations have been made to the Learning and Teaching Committee (53K Word .doc uploaded here) and pieces have appeared in Teaching News and OnStream (OnStream is intranet only, so clipped 117K .pdf post is here).

Brookes e-Learning Pathfinding

Finally, setting up a blog for Pathfinding. I have uploaded our Pathfinder proposal to a JISCmail filestore here.