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Now….did I lock the front door?

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 2 December, 2009

Fiona Grindey attended a lecture by Prof Andy Stanford-Clark, Master Inventor at IBM UK today.  It was an absolutely fascinating talk about pervasive innovation and its uses within IBM’s Smarter Planet agenda.   Andy talked about and showed us how his house has been wired up to detect power and water usuage and how he [...]

JISC Online Conference ‘Thriving not Surviving’

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 1 December, 2009

Fiona Grindey attended this event last week – all online and very interactive.   The conference was based on two themes – Theme 1 was ‘Finding the Way’ and Theme 2 was  ’ Meeting the Challenge’.   Each of these themes had a series of resources relating to them.  There are resources relating to the [...]

National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 12 November, 2009

I have just presented at the National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds yesterday at Coventry University with Julie Watson in Modern Languages.  I presented the model of the coordination and management of the University island and talked about how the communication between the five projects in the Schools and disciplines (Medicine, Modern Languages, Archaeology, [...]

E-Learning is now Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009

The E-Learning Implementation Group (Chaired by Rosalynd Jowett) and The E-Learning Strategy Group (Chaired by Hugh Davis) have now merged to form the Technology Enhanced Learning Steering and Implementation Group (TELSIG).  this new group will be able to contribute and respond to the new University strategies for education as they are put in place.  The [...]