Alastair Mitchell CEO Huddle.
The reality is there is amassive range of tools to use,old school like Sharepoint (:-))
& new like google.
Even though, free services theremay be hidden costs.
Collaboration:
Confusing
Complicated
Crowded
Costly
Collaboration is not just email,intranet,wikis or forums
Collaboration is every tool, plus people, we must not forget about people, you can provide a social tool, but you have to get people to use it.
In reality everyone likes technology outside the institution but hates institutional technology.
Should it be one thing.....
Web 2.0 is great if you are a user but difficult to administer & manage as an educational community.( Will we be individuals or members of a collaborative community)
We need to bring together enterprise & social eg sharepoint & google
Huddle is a set of workspaces
One for staff, one for students
Has a dashboard with work spaces, can be private college ones set up by college and will link into your personal ones.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Creativity & Media Production
Tom Abbott - Communication Office - University of Warwick
Steve Bowbrick on the BBC - says its going into its 2nd era, this could be said of education.
We are at a moment of explosive creativity, every week we can go to work & see something new, not all brilliant..... but some extraordinary.
we need to take the extra ordinary and make them ordinary, ie,part of normal life /business/ core
Its not about love of technology but organisational behaviour, to be able to adapt & change & respond
To get staff on board, it has to be ordinary, easy not complicated by technology or the language of the new. ( Online diary not blog)
Warwick do Podcasts & icasts, part of the norm ( as in our In a Nutshell project at College)Although used outside expertise to look slick, a bit like sky news reporting, sonow a switch.....
Now taken on by eLearning / IT Services leading projects ....... not the most slick , but of warwick by warwick, a need to support staff & students to be creative ( such as the proposal for e-solutions at EHWLC)
Need a creative environment. Google gives all its staff 20% of their time to innovate
At Warwick is the learning grid space, can video etc, student owned space supported by students
A flatpack video booth (like our EHWLC video diary box, but lighter) with an eeepc in it& web cam)
Warwick has its own blogging system can upload live video capture straight into their blog. Can record lessons, evidence live upload.
Students can come & learn how to use video it is ordinary to use it....becomes part of the core rather than peripheral
Steve Bowbrick on the BBC - says its going into its 2nd era, this could be said of education.
We are at a moment of explosive creativity, every week we can go to work & see something new, not all brilliant..... but some extraordinary.
we need to take the extra ordinary and make them ordinary, ie,part of normal life /business/ core
Its not about love of technology but organisational behaviour, to be able to adapt & change & respond
To get staff on board, it has to be ordinary, easy not complicated by technology or the language of the new. ( Online diary not blog)
Warwick do Podcasts & icasts, part of the norm ( as in our In a Nutshell project at College)Although used outside expertise to look slick, a bit like sky news reporting, sonow a switch.....
Now taken on by eLearning / IT Services leading projects ....... not the most slick , but of warwick by warwick, a need to support staff & students to be creative ( such as the proposal for e-solutions at EHWLC)
Need a creative environment. Google gives all its staff 20% of their time to innovate
At Warwick is the learning grid space, can video etc, student owned space supported by students
A flatpack video booth (like our EHWLC video diary box, but lighter) with an eeepc in it& web cam)
Warwick has its own blogging system can upload live video capture straight into their blog. Can record lessons, evidence live upload.
Students can come & learn how to use video it is ordinary to use it....becomes part of the core rather than peripheral
Building 21st Century Learning Environments
John Hickey - Apple
Where we need to go..........
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Teachers are moving from information experts to coaches & guides to information and learning how to learn.
What engages this learner is v. different, they live in media rich environment, they are producers as well as consumers
In classes like being on a flight,have to turn off all their electronics
Student expectations, technology encourages collaboration & interaction, they are not taught like this.
The real world is advanced, academia, is not......
Technology can advance learning, engage learners and reach out to the community.
Academia invented this type of computing.....shift inn power in IT now
Consumerisation of IT
Before, walls were built around IT, only allow certain things in
If we don't offer enough quota for email,they just use google
Students bring this into campus & support each other
There is a race to catch up with consumer technologies, we don't have the resources to compete with this
Previously people got their first email account from a uni or college,not the case now
Devices are dictating IT, mobile phones etc
There is a move from context to core we need to reverse the support for these, what is our core, our delivery, our faculties & alumni, the context is email, software etc, IT spends most of its time keeping email going not supporting teaching & learning.
Can look at developing institutional learning applications / resources
Look at iTunes U for academic content
(An open on-line library)
Where we need to go..........
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Teachers are moving from information experts to coaches & guides to information and learning how to learn.
What engages this learner is v. different, they live in media rich environment, they are producers as well as consumers
In classes like being on a flight,have to turn off all their electronics
Student expectations, technology encourages collaboration & interaction, they are not taught like this.
The real world is advanced, academia, is not......
Technology can advance learning, engage learners and reach out to the community.
Academia invented this type of computing.....shift inn power in IT now
Consumerisation of IT
Before, walls were built around IT, only allow certain things in
If we don't offer enough quota for email,they just use google
Students bring this into campus & support each other
There is a race to catch up with consumer technologies, we don't have the resources to compete with this
Previously people got their first email account from a uni or college,not the case now
Devices are dictating IT, mobile phones etc
There is a move from context to core we need to reverse the support for these, what is our core, our delivery, our faculties & alumni, the context is email, software etc, IT spends most of its time keeping email going not supporting teaching & learning.
Can look at developing institutional learning applications / resources
Look at iTunes U for academic content
(An open on-line library)
Campus of the Future
Miles Metcalfe from Ravensbourne College talks about the campus of the future.
Ravensbourne have 1500 students and are a mainly A&D & Communication univ. They are moving to Greenwich next door to Millenium dome (o2 arena).New campus designed by FOA(?),opens in 2010.
None of us really know about the future, but has all buzzwords: community engaged, peer supported,inclusive etc etc.
How does IT support this?
User-owned technology.
software as a service, eg google, software loan
Instead of providing inadequate it service, provide good connectivity
IT dept:
Instead of a defender of a scarce resource and arbiter of fair use ,a model of control
Should never block access to Youtube or facebook
A coherent pedagogy, where learners become practitioners and negotiate public id & need to integrate their extra institutional practice into their institution bound learning.
A PLE, access their personal environment through institutional services
Mobile phones have blown away a time driven/ synchronised society
Think about things, a friendship used to be strong , it now could be some idiot on facebook
A VLE system, can be the portal to all you need to learn whether run through rss,institutional data, cloud etc. (the things we at College are thinking about, creating an institutional front end which provides an entry to the things we need.)
Openid is a users id, not institutional identity like shibboleth
Updating patches is a nightmare
Ravensbourne have 1500 students and are a mainly A&D & Communication univ. They are moving to Greenwich next door to Millenium dome (o2 arena).New campus designed by FOA(?),opens in 2010.
None of us really know about the future, but has all buzzwords: community engaged, peer supported,inclusive etc etc.
How does IT support this?
User-owned technology.
software as a service, eg google, software loan
Instead of providing inadequate it service, provide good connectivity
IT dept:
Instead of a defender of a scarce resource and arbiter of fair use ,a model of control
Should never block access to Youtube or facebook
A coherent pedagogy, where learners become practitioners and negotiate public id & need to integrate their extra institutional practice into their institution bound learning.
A PLE, access their personal environment through institutional services
Mobile phones have blown away a time driven/ synchronised society
Think about things, a friendship used to be strong , it now could be some idiot on facebook
A VLE system, can be the portal to all you need to learn whether run through rss,institutional data, cloud etc. (the things we at College are thinking about, creating an institutional front end which provides an entry to the things we need.)
Openid is a users id, not institutional identity like shibboleth
Updating patches is a nightmare
Shared Services
Maria Illia talks about the London Metropolitan Network.
Run shared podcasting service, on-line collaboration,using huddle, it is a link between the public sector & out source suppliers.
Run shared podcasting service, on-line collaboration,using huddle, it is a link between the public sector & out source suppliers.
Visions of the Future #2
Tim showed some HD over wireless coming down at 1098kps. How can we use this?
Loughborough Univ SU, filmed HD Rugby, (rest of this post lost because of wireless network...humph) they used the rugby footage as a marketing tool to attract sports students.
In China a university filming operations in HD, Timsaw it, it was a bit too realistic!
Some barriers
Money : share resources
Old Farts: don't let people stop innovation
Production resources, Loughborough students wanted a crane, are looking at engineering students to build one for them
Resources maybe there is a place for a students tv network
There is a JANET briefing on iptv on 9th NOV in Cambridge
Loughborough Univ SU, filmed HD Rugby, (rest of this post lost because of wireless network...humph) they used the rugby footage as a marketing tool to attract sports students.
In China a university filming operations in HD, Timsaw it, it was a bit too realistic!
Some barriers
Money : share resources
Old Farts: don't let people stop innovation
Production resources, Loughborough students wanted a crane, are looking at engineering students to build one for them
Resources maybe there is a place for a students tv network
There is a JANET briefing on iptv on 9th NOV in Cambridge
Visions of the Future
Tim Marshall, CEO JANET(UK), aknowledges that we live ina world of fast change. We in education need to be ahead of the game as we are educating the workforce of tomorrow.
A few years ago in broadcasting, being able to spin a picture around was cutting edge, it cost £300an hour to create. Now all that can be done in PowerPoint.
Tim was in Beijing looking at quality control, all was filmed in HD, this challenges the way we cover things like sport, it can change which way we film, from the side or head on etc.
May not need a commentator formost things if picture is so good.
With HD you have to shoot a dramalike a feature films as it picks up rubbish sets.
(Interestingly audiences are getting used to viewing content from mobiles etc on Youtube)
Tim is talking about this now, his son now can produce something that is high quality.
Moving image on the internet is an anarchic exciting thing.
A few years ago in broadcasting, being able to spin a picture around was cutting edge, it cost £300an hour to create. Now all that can be done in PowerPoint.
Tim was in Beijing looking at quality control, all was filmed in HD, this challenges the way we cover things like sport, it can change which way we film, from the side or head on etc.
May not need a commentator formost things if picture is so good.
With HD you have to shoot a dramalike a feature films as it picks up rubbish sets.
(Interestingly audiences are getting used to viewing content from mobiles etc on Youtube)
Tim is talking about this now, his son now can produce something that is high quality.
Moving image on the internet is an anarchic exciting thing.
Blogging vrs Twitting
I have found that blogging this conference has been better than twittering, the english may be a bit scatty, but I think it is a better record.
Networking over lunch
Chatted to guys from Redbridge College over lunch , who know the Second Lifers from Preston.
Personalisation
Philip Butler from ULCC doesn't like technology, but is a user of it, he only thinks about technology when it doesn't work.
Technology works best when it is invisable.
Stephen Crowne cheif executive of BECTA talks about when technology is used innovatively it can make a difference to t & L in his Harnessing Technology report.
Learning will become personalised.
If a surgeon was transported from 100 yrs ago into a modern operating theatre they wouldn't know what to do, but transport a teacher, & it wouldn't look much different.
We are trying to look at this at College, technology could free a teacher from teaching AT students from the front of a class room en masse.
At EHWLC we are supporting models where group work is mananged & supported through the cloud, away from the classroom. This frees a teacher up to have time for face to face personalised support for students.
Phil agrees with us,that the learner should be at the centre, the technology, resources, systems, infrastructure supports this.
Phil is looking at systems where the learner's Personal Learning Plan is at the centre, & the recommended model is that the VLE, PLPand e-portfolio ASSESSMENT is institutional, but the e-portfolio of work is personal to the student.
We at College either have or are working towards having all these elements.
Lewisham college have this in Moodle.
Technology works best when it is invisable.
Stephen Crowne cheif executive of BECTA talks about when technology is used innovatively it can make a difference to t & L in his Harnessing Technology report.
Learning will become personalised.
If a surgeon was transported from 100 yrs ago into a modern operating theatre they wouldn't know what to do, but transport a teacher, & it wouldn't look much different.
We are trying to look at this at College, technology could free a teacher from teaching AT students from the front of a class room en masse.
At EHWLC we are supporting models where group work is mananged & supported through the cloud, away from the classroom. This frees a teacher up to have time for face to face personalised support for students.
Phil agrees with us,that the learner should be at the centre, the technology, resources, systems, infrastructure supports this.
Phil is looking at systems where the learner's Personal Learning Plan is at the centre, & the recommended model is that the VLE, PLPand e-portfolio ASSESSMENT is institutional, but the e-portfolio of work is personal to the student.
We at College either have or are working towards having all these elements.
Lewisham college have this in Moodle.
Open up the web
James Broad from Yahoo!, is going to talk about "The cloud in a nutshell", we can give him the jingle!
James's Blog is at www.carbonsilk.com
The good thing about technology now is that we can share things & communicate instantly,or choose to look later, because the content is there & open.
James's Blog is at www.carbonsilk.com
The good thing about technology now is that we can share things & communicate instantly,or choose to look later, because the content is there & open.
Why portability matters #2
Be careful of down time, some american companies put down time when the US is asleep & we are awake. There is a site dedicated to Twitter called "Is twitter down?"
You need to license content, be clear about what you can do, use creative commons license where you can.
Education is the key, show people good practice in using the cloud.
Permanency......
Blip.tv says that if you creative comons your license, then if blip.tv goes, it will save stuff to archive.org and link from the original url.
You should be able to delete all of yourself from any service, atone point you couldnt do that on facebook.
Need to get net-savvy.
You need to license content, be clear about what you can do, use creative commons license where you can.
Education is the key, show people good practice in using the cloud.
Permanency......
Blip.tv says that if you creative comons your license, then if blip.tv goes, it will save stuff to archive.org and link from the original url.
You should be able to delete all of yourself from any service, atone point you couldnt do that on facebook.
Need to get net-savvy.
Why Portability Matters
Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage says a user has rights on-line. Be careful, when you sign up to social networks, don't import your contacts from other services.
Open ids etc means identity is difficult.
Look at cloud computing through google Microsoft Mesh, with UMPCs like eeepcs.
There are some services which lock you in in the cloud, be careful.
BBC did a concert in SL, but couldn't get it out to broadcast on TV.
Richard Stillman says the cloud is a trap.
Having access to the cloudatany time means the death of pub quizzes! :-)
A good model is how we are doing things at College a pick & mix idea.
BBC is using Yammer, but there areissues about ownership of content etc.
BBC uses different solutions. Have to ensure you can export your data fromthe cloud.
Open ids etc means identity is difficult.
Look at cloud computing through google Microsoft Mesh, with UMPCs like eeepcs.
There are some services which lock you in in the cloud, be careful.
BBC did a concert in SL, but couldn't get it out to broadcast on TV.
Richard Stillman says the cloud is a trap.
Having access to the cloudatany time means the death of pub quizzes! :-)
A good model is how we are doing things at College a pick & mix idea.
BBC is using Yammer, but there areissues about ownership of content etc.
BBC uses different solutions. Have to ensure you can export your data fromthe cloud.
Pan London cloud
Sue & I are thinking of a way that the cloud could support our partners in the new diploma projects, our problem is that we cross many boroughs, each school has its own vle, the cloud could sit on top of this.
Second Life
Pauline Randell from Virtual - E spoke about her experience with second life.
She felt that many education establishments were doing something in SL because "everyone else is". She advised thatyou should look at what you could do in SL that you can't do in Real Life, not get students sitting doen watching a powerpoint presentation.
She is experimenting with creatig avirtual business like a coffee shop with objects attached to thing such as muffins showing cost per unit and asking students to evaluate the business.
Her space is Virtual-e island.
She felt that many education establishments were doing something in SL because "everyone else is". She advised thatyou should look at what you could do in SL that you can't do in Real Life, not get students sitting doen watching a powerpoint presentation.
She is experimenting with creatig avirtual business like a coffee shop with objects attached to thing such as muffins showing cost per unit and asking students to evaluate the business.
Her space is Virtual-e island.
Cloud computing
Sam Peters from Google spoke about cloud computing.
The type of things we have been experimenting with at College. She spoke about the fact that most people will have mobile access on their phones soon, more people than will have broadband at home.
The cloud can free IT Services from maintaining systems, it is estimated that 8 out of 10 dollars in US businesses is spent on IT maintanence rather than new or innovative solutions. IT Services is also not usually core to the business, & the cloudcan free them from this maintanence.
What's in it for Google?
Giving things free to education is getting the businessmodel in to the future leaders of business, with the hope that they will use Google apps & services in the future.
They were advocating the Google apps for education, but debate here at College has been more radical, to look at (for the student side of things) total personal clouds rather than institutional ones.
The type of things we have been experimenting with at College. She spoke about the fact that most people will have mobile access on their phones soon, more people than will have broadband at home.
The cloud can free IT Services from maintaining systems, it is estimated that 8 out of 10 dollars in US businesses is spent on IT maintanence rather than new or innovative solutions. IT Services is also not usually core to the business, & the cloudcan free them from this maintanence.
What's in it for Google?
Giving things free to education is getting the businessmodel in to the future leaders of business, with the hope that they will use Google apps & services in the future.
They were advocating the Google apps for education, but debate here at College has been more radical, to look at (for the student side of things) total personal clouds rather than institutional ones.
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