Mullett's Corner

David Mullett After a relaxing 2 hour day dream fest on the train to the VLE Forum's destination, Letchworth Garden City, I arrived to a pleasant short walk to The Goldsmith Centre where todays event was taking place. Glancing down the agenda, I have to say I wasn't particularly sanguine about taking too much away from the event, not because I was dis-interested, far from it, mainly because I've sat through one of the updates four times now and I've never really taken anything from larger companies coming in to sell solutions that no-one needs rather than discuss and identify source of problems.  I wont detail all of the days events but I'd like to say that my assumptions were to take quite a swift one-eighty. Coffee and catching up with known faces was nice, right before being ushered into one of the conference rooms to settle in to Bedford College's update on their Moodle Grade Tracker.

David Mullett "The guys were great. Really knowledgeable and open to ideas. I really appreciated them taking the time to share their work with us." - Feedback from JISC RSC Eastern Workshop we presented.

Forest Wander -  http://flic.kr/p/avDP2c A small journey took place yesterday.. I normally check out Campus Technology on a regular basis, just to see what's floating around the state side of learning technology. US universities are massive in comparison to our local network ones so it's nice to see what emerging technologies are being used in well funded unis straight from the ole valley of silicon, to give maybe an insight as to what's to come or to keep a watchful eye out for. I did however want to find a nice UK based LT news site, after some random googling I came across the JISC CETIS Assistant Director's work blog, within a few minutes I had Diigo'd a couple of links. What technologies have been used to transform curriculum delivery? - I found this a particularly easy read, I didn't have to read through pages and pages of overhyped buzzwords to find out what the point of the article was. The use of IBM's ManyEyes widgets to display the data...