Car Parking

Hi!

Just to let you know that the Forum has booked 20 parking spaces, for the day but we have only had a half dozen participants requesting a space.

The University Parking Policy has a parking charge of £1.00 per day. Please ensure you have paid and displayed if you are parking in the Car Park. If you are driving to the Forum, remember it is in Park Campus. Driving directions are available and this page has links to Multimap as well as PDFs of maps of Cheltenham and the campus. There is also a link to ‘Traveling to Cheltenham and Gloucester’ where you will find information if you are using public transport. The station is about 20 minutes walk or taxi ride from Park Campus.

If anyone requires any further information such as availability of disabled spaces, please contact prsi@glos.ac.uk

Kenny

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Teaching with Twitter?

University of Texas Dallas Professor of Emerging Technology, David Parry, discusses in this two and a half minute video how he is using Twitter to teach his class. This video is provide by the Chronicle of Higher Education. He explains that about half of his class used Twitter already and half didn’t.

Is this the future of technology enhanced learning? Do we have relevant complementary experience or expertise?  Are there some issues here which are worth collaborating on?

Here’s a short video called ‘Twitter in Plain English’

Kenny

Educause Horizons Report 2008

Our VC, Professor Patricia Broadfoot recently sent around to a few colleagues the details of this report which had been drawn to her attention.  The Educause Horizons 2008 report is the latest of a series of annual reports Educause produce focusing on emergent technologies and assessing their likely impact on the Higher Education sector.  The latest issue – like the previous ones – considers several emerging technologies and the main research and pilot testing issues for higher education.  So it is a really useful place to find out about upcoming technologies and is authoritative on the likely issues for the HE sector.  So possibly some useful material for justifying research or development proposals?  It may also provide some useful ground from which to discuss future collaborations. Their report is divided inot a consideration of the following technologies:

• Grassroots Video
• Collaboration Webs
• Mobile Broadband
• Data Mashups
• Collective Intelligence
• Social Operating Systems

Previous year reports have predicted the lead times to adoption of emergent technologies and it is worth looking through the back catalogue.  JISC have just put out a call for institutional innovation with a deadline of the 17th July. this is likely to be too tight a lead-time for any collaborations that emerge from the Forum discussions, but there is a link on this page to the future calls coming up. this may be worth a look? Do we have relevant institutional strengths that are complementary? How might our institutions collaborate?