JISC Digital Media webinar to the rescue!
I recently undertook a course on creative ways to use and improve my memory skills; very interesting and I hope that it will help me in the future, but obviously the stuff that I’d tried to remember...
View ArticleLearning Opportunities Inside and Out: Workshop Reflections
Esther and I have done five workshops so far this month – or to be more accurate the same workshop five times: at Community Learning Wales (#clw12), and the Wales TUC national conference for Union...
View ArticleInspire Adult Learner Awards: Have You Nominated Yet?
It is now coming to the time of the year when I can reflect on the progress my students have made over the last year, and give myself the very pleasant task of deciding whom to nominate for an...
View ArticleRising to meet the digital literacy challenge
In December 2012 RSC Wales held an online event called One year on – Learning from innovation in digital literacy, a Lunchtime Byte one-hour session on the hot topic of digital literacy. Participants...
View ArticleA New Year and new look Twippets
Here’s a selection of snippets of information that we (as @rscwales) have tweeted (tweet + snippet = twippet) over the last few weeks that might be of interest, even if you are not a Twitter user. A...
View ArticleSame Old, Same Old?
January is a good time to take a look at some ways of working, to see what needs changing. Day to day ‘busy-ness’ seems to prevent a good overhaul of working practices most of the time, but I managed...
View ArticleAcquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning...
This post forms part one of a series of five blog posts on the acquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning resource centre (LRC)/library perspective. These blog posts...
View ArticleAcquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning...
Legal Implications This third post forms part of a series of five blog posts on the acquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning resource centre (LRC)/library...
View ArticleAcquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning...
Promoting ebooks This post forms part four of a series of five blog posts on the acquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning resource centre (LRC)/library perspective....
View ArticleAcquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning...
Creating Ebooks This post forms part one of a series of five blog posts on the acquisition, management, promotion and creation of ebooks from the learning resource centre (LRC)/library perspective....
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Encouraging Innovation 2013
This year, Jisc RSC Wales brings a different approach to our Summer Conference with a 2-day event. Previously Lis Parcell wrote a post about our online day here and in this post I’ll be reflecting on...
View ArticleBring Your Own Device: Are We There Yet?
It was a privilege to take part in the debate at the NIACE Annual Conference in London earlier this week. Having lost the debate, I have been reflecting on what was said, what might have been said, and...
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Merging and migrating email systems
In Wales then we’ve experienced more than our fair share of mergers between education providers. In variably one of the initial projects that IT services has to complete is the merger of email...
View ArticleInnovation in Universities: A Symposium at Glyndwr
I attended a Symposium at Glyndwr University last week, and gave a presentation about MOOCs and OERs (recording here). There was a range of other presentations on various subject from internal and...
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‘Conker Tree’ Citizen Science Paper Published
Citizen Science took a significant step forward last month, with the publication of a paper called ‘The Success of the Horse-Chestnut Leaf-Miner, Cameraria ohridella, in the UK Revealed with...
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Video presentations: sharing your message after F2F events
Have you given a killer presentation and realized that some of the key people you were hoping to reach were not there? Have you ever facilitated a really productive workshop, only to find that some...
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Safer Internet Day: Reflections and Plans
Staff at the Jisc’s Regional Support Centre Wales have been doing the final rounds of our friends and colleagues in the colleges, universities and skills providers across Wales, before we wind up as...
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