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Gathering Support Requirements

Sheila MacNeill CETIS, University of Strathclyde

Lisa Corley CETIS, University of Bolton

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Main aspects of support:

• Events (8 over two years)• Project visits• Website

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Event ideas

• Technical - focusing on development & implementation issues

• Pedagogical - focusing on wider pedagogical implications

• Wider community - sharing outcomes/experiences outside this project -e.g. LAMS, 10 Competence etc.

• Mix of f2f and online meetings

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blogs and wikisBlog:

“A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order…Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Wiki:“a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit

all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

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wiki

• Example of a programme support wiki:

www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/JISC_Digital_Repository_Wiki

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Ideas for web support

• group blog - to share resources• Project / programme wikis? • Repository of learning designs• Ideas for how it would work?

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Your support requirements?

• Events• Project visits• Website

Question 3 & 4 on ‘Project Support needs Analysis’ sheet in pack:

• What kinds of external advisory support will you need to complete the project successfully?

• What form would you like this advice and support to take?

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feedback• Overview of jisc & jisc programmes• Outside view• List of everyone – contact page, email, photos• Final dissemination event – for all projects to

present – JISC organised• Portal – one place to go, portal to other

projects. Coordinated central place• Contract – ¾ of staff on one project contracts

finish before end of year- sustainability? Institutional issues – embedding project & staff

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• Ped planner projects to meet with other projects to discuss interface issues – integration of outputs

• More money• Guide to JISC • Keyword search• Making sense of complexity• Ped planner link up• Newsletter/updating mechanism• Search for info, research info etc

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• Support for evaluation and evaluation toolsets• Keywords and cross ref with people involved in

similar projects• Contact with developers and tools• Technical issues: may want advice• Distribution and sourceforce• Accessibility• Feed in to IMS – issues & where do they go?• IPR – open designs – what are the issues re sharing

etc• Ways of working – not too many meetings, places

to put things, plethora of websites