http://cltchi.edublogs.org Thoughts, ideas, etc related to Learning & Teaching at the University of Chichester Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:17:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this week, I attended a meeting at City University to look at how UK universities are using Second Life. There were interesting presentations from the Universities of Hertfordshire, Edinburgh and Manchester Metropolitan and demonstrations showing different ways of integrating SL into e-learning. Many of you will be aware of ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/11/23/second-life-chichester/ Emerging from the gloop of e-Learning Benchmarking, I've escaped to London for a couple of interesting meetings - first up, OpenID. Q. What links all these companies & organisations? A. They all use OpenID Most IT systems nowadays use a form of single sign-on (SSO) authentication to remove the need for users ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/11/23/openid-and-higher-education/   Today, after four months of preparation, CLT finally launched Chichester's e-Learning Benchmarking Project. We are one of twenty-five universities taking part in Phase II of this national exercise which is coordinated by HEA and JISC. The aim of the exercise is to look at e-learning while asking three ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/e-learning-benchmarking-launch/ I've been picking up several references pointing to a recent Moodle conference in Graz, Austria. Graz seems to be a hive of industry at the moment, with the Technical Institute being once of the first universities to adopt Elgg. The conference had several interesting presentations, including ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/10/04/moodle-conference/ At last we have a copy of Elgg installed on a trial server. After encountering it at an e-Learning Benchmarking meeting and observing it being enthusiastically adopted by students at Brighton and Leeds, we've set it up to see how useful it might be in supporting learning. As a piece ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/10/04/elgg-is-here/ Back in May I referred to the potential fog that surrounds all things Web 2.0. For those who equate learning software with just a few software applications, perhaps WebCT/Blackboard, QuestionMark Perception, MS Office and a good web browser, it can come as a shock that there are now ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/10/02/the-fog-of-web-20/ I recently came across an illuminating slide show (in 2 parts) that runs through a timeline from an 'early Internet' in 1746 when Abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet zapped 200 swearing monks connected in serial to a large battery (my favourite tale when I taught science in a Catholic School....) up to ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/09/25/from-monks-to-social-networks/ JISC have recently published a survey of 16-18 yr-olds about to enter university on their expectations of ICT. This makes interesting reading and anyone involved in e-Learning will find it useful. According to the survey, the conclusion is that potential university entrants think that technology should: support established methods of teaching ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/09/21/jisc-survey-on-student-expectations-of-ict-in-universities/ Following a quiet period on the blog over the last six weeks or so (useful for Benchmarking preparations), there has been a flurry of meetings over the last week resulting in several interesting items. These include: 1 The decision to make January to May an e-Learning Semester, kicking off with ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/09/20/new-developments/ True Wow! moments - those that trigger a response like a lighted match dropped into a box of fireworks. Such occasions for me include my first program on a ZX81 (it's amazing what you can do with 1K of RAM), seeing Seymour Papert demonstrating Logo, discovering Mosaic (the first web ... http://cltchi.edublogs.org/2007/07/28/sharing-a-wow-moment/