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Welcome to the first Newsfeed of the new session. This
fortnightly bulletin is brought to you by the two Scottish RSCs and our aim is
to highlight interesting ICT news and developments in a short, snappy format
which should allow you to find the information you need without growing too
much older as you do it. We’ll look at conferences, training events, new
resources and the latest technological developments which will affect how we
deliver education in the future. We aim to please and we hope that at least
some of the information here will be useful to you. Are we getting it right? If
there are areas that you’d like us to cover which we’re currently not, if you
have a resource, a technique or an opinion you’d like to share with the
readership of Newsfeed (2500 and rising at the last count) then please let us have your feedback through our
website at www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscne/contact.html.
So as the blue skies of summer fade away in the memory
and the nights imperceptibly creep in, welcome back to Newsfeed…
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· Virtual Exhibition
· FE Wishlist
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· Science of Football
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Plagiarism – Sorry Ludwig You’ve Just Failed! - June
What
is plagiarism? George Macdonald Ross, of Leeds University distinguishes between
"criminal" efforts by students trying to cheat by pinching other
students' work or even getting a postgraduate to write their essays, and the
large grey area of bad practice where students don't understand the rules of
academic writing and are unsure where paraphrasing ends and plagiarism begins, or
at what point collaboration (encouraged by tutors) becomes collusion (which can
cost you your course)?
This
may help: Anti-plagiarism software developed by the universities' Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) is now being used by over 100 universities
and colleges and more than 250 institutions have registered with the service.
See the full article in the Guardian Education:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/administration/story/0,9860,1244186,00.htm
Or go direct to the JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service:
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Wireless Networking
UKERNA
is the technical member of the JISC family, charged with making sure that the
JANET network delivers levels of performance that Colleges and Universities
expect. Another important function carried out by UKERNA is to monitor emerging
technologies and to train technical staff to use them efficiently. A good
example of this is the collection of information on wireless networks which can
be accessed from the site below. Here you’ll find:
·
An Introduction to Wireless LANs
·
Wireless Case Studies
·
Wireless Security
For
tomorrow’s technology today go to:
http://www.ja.net/development/network_access/wireless/wag/wireless-info.html
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Keep the Heid! : Free 60-day trial offer for
Hairdressing Training.
All
FE Colleges are now able to access an interactive online training resource for
hairdressing courses completely free of charge for 60 days! Designed for
educational purposes, Hairdressing Training provides step-by-step guides,
covering every area of the hairdressing curriculum up to level 2.
This
resource has been made available exclusively to the
You can register for a free 60-day
trial at any time by completing the response form at www.jisc.ac.uk/hairform.
For more information on this resource, please see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_hairdressing.html
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Get if off your CHEST
(1) CHEST - Virtual Exhibition
Colleges
are encouraged to visit CHEST’s 1st Virtual Exhibition. Staged specifically for
FE, it's definitely the quickest and easiest way for colleagues to research CHEST
software agreements. Just follow the link at:
www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/fe/exhibition/index.html.
(2) CHEST -
New FE Wishlist
CHEST
has introduced an FE Wishlist to make it easier for colleges to suggest
products for potential Agreements and view the status of existing wishes.
Contributors can now track progress and participate in the calls for expressions
of interest which are vital to our concluding agreements. The new Wishlist is
on:
www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future-agreements/index.html.
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Free E-Reference Books for
A
recent agreement between JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and the
publisher Thomson Gale will mean that every college in the
JISC
and Thomson Gale entered into negotiations over these titles because
consultation had shown that while the FE community values eBooks, there is
still not a large and affordable enough collection of eBooks available that are
tailored to the needs of FE students and staff. These titles will at a stroke
add more than 31,800 pages and many thousands of entries to colleges’ reference
resources. The normal cost of the 21 titles in hard copy (representing a total
of 63 volumes) is nearly £5,000, so that if all colleges in the
For
further information contact:
Clare Holmes, Thomson Gale, at clare.holmes@thomson.com
or on 07799 8815,
or
Jill Jones at jill.jones@thomson.com or on 07900 498090 or
Brian Mitchell, JISC, at b.mitchell@jisc.ac.uk, or on 020 7848 2935.
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New JISC InfoNet Infokit: Implementing the FERL Practitioners’
Programme
A
new InfoKit is now available from JISC InfoNet entitled Implementing the FERL
Practitioners’ Programme (FPP). The FPP is an ICT training programme for all
staff, but this InfoKit will be especially useful to staff development officers
and managers interested in achieving and effective implementation of the
programme locally.
Key sections
of the pack highlight: The advantages of using a structured methodology
For
further details and to download materials from the InfoKit go to:
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/InfoKits/fpp/index_html
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Science and Sport
The JISC and the BBC have linked up to provide live coverage of events as they unfold in Athens http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/3558922.stm
The Science of Football In case you’d failed to notice, the football season has started again. Did it ever go away? However, an excellent resource on the Science and Nature Section of the BBC website runs a cool scientific eye over the ‘beautiful game’ and as a by-product offers an excellent example of how multimedia can be used to bring a subject to life – even one as over-exposed as football. To analyse every kick of the ball go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/football/index.shtml
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