November 09

Hardware requirements agreed and orders placed, evaluation plan circulated to project team, PDP amended to take into account feedback from the curriculum teams. It has been agreed that the Learning Centre will support curriculum team in the following areas: Work Readiness, CV writing, Communications (with mentor), academic writing and through the use of the diary room for PLTS (March-June).

We had a few issues with the new Flip cameras as the file format was not compatible with Windows Movie Maker meaning that students cannot directly edit any footage they record. To alleviate this it was agreed that a piece of free software (Free Studio Manager) would be deployed to the student network to facilitate file conversion.

Feedback from JISC on the interim report was fed back to the team and it was agreed that the curriculum team will post at least once a month and consider setting up a blog for students. Student blogging was also discussed and it was agreed that would be encouraged to contribute on a monthly basis during tutorials and other staff teaching on the course could also prompt students to add to the blog after any sessions that seemed appropriate.

We also participated in the JISC Innovating e-Learning 2009 conference and a copy of our simulation can be seen here.