Monday, December 18, 2006
Day 2 - First Session
My first session was Andy Ramsden from Bristol, giving reflections on the use of web 2.0 in developing lecturer Blackboard skills.
Has an RSS feed from blog which feeds to staff portal view, support blackboard site, and other places automatically.
Open workshops were not working: staff weren't coming anymore. So he wanted to embrace web 2.0 principles.
Only has the learning system, different portal.
140 system administrators for Blackboard - all full sys admins.
-Very devolved system administration, but seems dangerous (no big problems yet though).
-Allows a fast response time to problems.
Does a podcast for staff (Andy's Fireside Chat). Helps make staff aware of the issues. Lets the academics see the potential of podcasting as a learning tool.
Has done quick polls about what do staff want to learn about.
Set up a knowledge base in a wiki format. Not a single staff member took the time to edit the knowledge base. Are going to relaunch it with a more pedagogical slant. I think time will limit participation again though.
Said the blog/podcast was more of a success, but I would like to see how many people actually listened to the podcast and read the blog, as I got the impression last year from him that it wasn't many back then.
Has an RSS feed from blog which feeds to staff portal view, support blackboard site, and other places automatically.
Open workshops were not working: staff weren't coming anymore. So he wanted to embrace web 2.0 principles.
Only has the learning system, different portal.
140 system administrators for Blackboard - all full sys admins.
-Very devolved system administration, but seems dangerous (no big problems yet though).
-Allows a fast response time to problems.
Does a podcast for staff (Andy's Fireside Chat). Helps make staff aware of the issues. Lets the academics see the potential of podcasting as a learning tool.
Has done quick polls about what do staff want to learn about.
Set up a knowledge base in a wiki format. Not a single staff member took the time to edit the knowledge base. Are going to relaunch it with a more pedagogical slant. I think time will limit participation again though.
Said the blog/podcast was more of a success, but I would like to see how many people actually listened to the podcast and read the blog, as I got the impression last year from him that it wasn't many back then.
// posted by Brian @ 4:41 PM 
