These notes go some way towards an interim report for Thursday 7 December.
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Tag: Project management
e-Learning Co-ordinators
Oxford Brookes e-Learning Co-ordinators for the Schools are
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.
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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 can then back up to removable storage.
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 lot of the ideas that have become web2 staples.
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.
