Monthly Archives: December 2011

Living transcripts

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Chris Follows

Credential for informal learning, learning experiences stories, badge system. This episode’s guest is Erin Knight, Learning Director for the Mozilla Foundation. Erin walks us through all the ins and outs of Mozilla’s new education initiative Badges for Lifelong Learning, a … Continue reading →

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Open Education at the UAL Meeting

Posted on December 20, 2011 by John Casey

Open Education at the UAL a focus and discussion group meeting Wednesday 11th Jan at 3-5 pm at Central St. Martins in room KX B101 – All Welcome. This will be a focus and discussion group meeting around the theme … Continue reading →

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How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Chris Follows

A great set of slides from Doug Belshaw http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/how-to-develop-digital-literacies-in-yourself-and-others?from=ss_embed

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#UALbestpractice and/or #UALgaps

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Chris Follows

Baselining for DIAL at UAL is basically a snapshot of the current digital ‘landscape’ from as many perspectives as possible. DIAL would like to gather as many examples or stories from across UAL of student and staff best practice and/or … Continue reading →

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Practice based accreditation tool

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Chris Follows

Some early thoughts ideas how best to make sense/ best use of the gap analysis process of practice based digital literacies as part of the DIAL project, as part of its ongoing baselining process. There are no tools or processes … Continue reading →

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Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Chris Follows

For those who didn’t get a chance to see the engaging presentation by David White (University of Oxford) and Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC) on Digital Visitors and Residents last Friday can now do so via the links from a … Continue reading →

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Project blog tips

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Chris Follows

Sheila MacNeill wrote: There are a growing set of resources on the support wiki around communication and dissemination<https://programmesupport.pbworks.com/w/page/44982469/Communication> , including a great post from Steve Boneham (Netskills) on why projects should blog. http://sboneham.com/blog/2011/02/why-jisc-projects-should-blog/

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DIAL recording technologies

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Chris Follows

Notes from Skype meeting 12/11/2011 with Sheila MacNeill at JISC CETIS: Sheila is part of the support team that’s primarily interested in finding out what technologies projects are going to be – or at this stage thinking about using. Please see … Continue reading →

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Baselining UAL for DIAL

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Chris Follows

Notes from Friday’s baselining session with JISC and the other Digital Literacies (DL) projects, the session was led by Helen Beetham. We were asked to present a quick summary of our early thoughts regarding baselining for the DL projects, see … Continue reading →

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Meetings WCA tech staff & E-Learning Strategy Group

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Chris Follows

Had two good productive meetings today with some Wimbledon technical staff and the UAL E-Learning Strategy Group, I find it really beneficial to physically meet up and have ‘real’ conversations. This could be a basic requirement of DIAL project approach … Continue reading →

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