JISC Services Communications Group

JISC Services would like your feedback on yesterday’s Skills day. There’s a formal survey on JISCMail through which you can rate each speaker and you can also leave more informal feedback by commenting on the feedback page on the wiki.

Leave feedback by either method by the end of today and you will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win a digital photoframe!

Penny Windebank is the JISCmail’s Director working in the e-Science Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Read the rest of this entry »

Will Allen explains how Netskills looks under the bonnet of websites Read the rest of this entry »

My task is to introduce an ancient concept - news - and discuss why it is still important and why it is important in a JISC context and what it can do for our services and organisations. Read the rest of this entry »

You can download the slides from Stuart’s presentation on the wiki. The blog which is the focus of this talk is here: http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/oss-watch Read the rest of this entry »

Learning Technologies Manager, West Suffolk College - 21,000 learners, post-16, rural college, credited as an outstanding quality provider, also a beacon college since November 2006 Read the rest of this entry »

OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on open source software. Ross has a background in OSS, is an active open source developer, and conducts 80% of his discussions via email. Read the rest of this entry »

Sarah: Brian has set the context. After listening to him I remembered that been involved in IT and education since the 80s and was teaching hypertext and for people involved in hypertext the web offered incredible possibilities but then it seemed to become constraining but now with web 2.0 all those possibilities seem to be opening up again… Read the rest of this entry »

Brian Kelly describes how he uses web 2.0 technologies to do his job at UKOLN Read the rest of this entry »

Matt Jukes describes the tools he’s been working on, from blogs to wikis.

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Aim is to explore new and old communication channels - wikis, blogs, web 2.0 technologies but also web 1.0 tech and also paper and all the different roles they can play supporting comms and marketing activities

Brainchild of Services working group: voluntary group run by JISC and Services - co-chaired by Dicky and Russell - if interested in joining or attending meetings, it’s a good chance to meet others, exchange ideas…

Event supported by range of commuication channels which we encourage you to use: wiki, blog, Facebook…

Two different types of feedback - survey on JISCMail and also informal feedback on the wiki.

Fill out your form by the end of tomorrow for the chance to win a digital camera in a prize draw.

The JISC Services Communications Group wiki has full details of the Skills day, including the programme, an annotated delegate list, venue and travel details. It now also hosts a plan of the venue and wireless internet access log on details.

If you are attending or presenting at the day then you should have already received an invite to join the wiki. If you have not received your invite then please get in touch with Michelle.

This event will be held at the Oxford Said Business School on September 5 2007. It will bring together JISC Services, the JISC development programme and JISC staff to actively explore web 2.0 technologies. The aim of the day is to stimulate ideas, share successes and to forge new ideas for the benefit of the academic community.

It will be an inventive, participative event which will put the technologies under discussion into practice before, during and after the day. The day’s discussions will be live blogged right here and the presentations will also be podcasted and made available on this blog. A Facebook group has been set up for the event and a wiki hosts further details of the event and will be a repository for further information on web 2.0 technology and its uses afterwards.