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Happy
2004 to all our readers from staff at both Scottish Regional Support Centres.
In this issue:
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1. Spring Conference -
Changing the Culture with ICT
2. Invitation to tender
for JISC study
3. New Version of Hot
Potatoes Now Available
4. Get a Life - Join the
JISC
5. Netskills Workshops in the Curriculab on
29th & 30th January
6. Networkshop: for
Network Managers and Technical Staff
7. The Wonder of
Electronic Whiteboards
8. Crafty . . .Crafty
9.
10. New Digital Copyright
License for FE
11. Training and Events
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Diary Date: Spring
Conference - Changing the Culture with ICT
Further Education is in the midst of a sea of change, driven and
fundamentally shaped by the increased use of ICT in Colleges. This conference -
to be held at Glasgow Concert Hall on Tuesday 9th March - is designed to
explore the meaning of this change and particularly the key area of
interoperability and to disseminate the results of the JISC's SWANI programme
which has been exploring that area. Organised by the two Scottish Regional
Support Centres the conference will be free to interested staff from
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Invitation to tender for
JISC study
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has an invitation to
tender inviting proposals to undertake a preliminary investigation and
foundation study of personalisation technologies and techniques for use within
the JISC Information Environment. This work will include both portals and other
presentation services and will make recommendations on how these might make use
of personalisation to enhance their service to users. The work is intended to
be a short-term study to provide greater information on the role
personalisation might play in ongoing developments within the JISC Information
Environment. As such, the work is proposed to take place over 3-4 months. The
deadline for receipt of tenders is
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New Version of Hot
Potatoes Now Available
After two years in development, version 6 of Hot Potatoes for
Windows has been released. New features, include:
· Full support for Unicode
(so you can create exercises in Japanese, Russian, phonetic characters, etc.)
· No frames!
· Timers on exercises
· Mixing of short-answer
and multiple-choice questions in one quiz
· Question-weighting and
percentage correct settings for answers
For a complete list of new features see: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/v6_faq.htm#NewFeatures
Download software from: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/index.htm#downloads
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Get a Life - Join the JISC
The Joint Information Systems Committee is an advisory committee to
the
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Netskills workshops in the
Curriculab on 29th & 30th January
29th January - Web
Accessibility: Design for All
This workshop is aimed at anyone who produces web pages and wishes
to understand and explore the principles and practice of producing accessible
content.
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/event/edcoll-jan04-access-r1/index.html
30th January - Exploring XML
A practical workshop, aimed
at experienced HTML authors, introducing a wide range of new and exciting
possibilities from multiple content transformations to creating WAP pages and
producing XML from databases. This workshop can count towards a Netskills /
BTEC Professional Development Certificate (PDC).
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/event/edcoll-jan04-xml-r1/index.html
Both workshops will take place at RSC Scotland North & East's
new Curriculab Training Suite at
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Networkshop 2004 : for
network managers and technical staff
Networkshop is an annual event organised by UKERNA. Aimed at network
managers and technical staff from the JANET community, the conference provides
a forum for discussion on the latest network technologies and brings together
expertise from all aspects of networking. Bookings are now being taken for
Networkshop 2004 which is being held at the
http://www.ja.net/conferences/networkshop/index.html
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The wonder of electronic
whiteboards
'Aren't electronic whiteboards wonderful? The government clearly
thinks so. An extra £25m of funding has been allocated to put whiteboards into
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1116483,00.html
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Crafty . . Crafty
The Scottish Arts Council has launched a new web portal for the Arts
& Crafts Community. The 'Craft Scotland' pilot website showcases the wide
variety of crafts and applied arts activity around the country.
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The JISC is looking for your views on 'Oxford Scholarship Online'
and whether access to it should be subsidised for FE and HE. This collection of
over 700 books from OUP includes Philosophy, Religion and Theology, Political
Science and Economics and Finance and
will increase by at least 200 titles a year. The collection can be
sampled online until 30th January and your feedback would be greatly
appreciated. To request a trial access, please email consultations@jisc.ac.uk.
Alternatively, contact Brian Mitchell from the JISC Collections Team on 020
78481736.
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New Digital Copyright
License for FE
The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) has recently launched a new
blanket license for Further Education colleges which will provide new digital
copying rights. For more information:
http://www.cla.co.uk/media/press_releases/press103.html
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Training & Events
A full listing of all the workshops currently being run by both RSCs
in
RSC
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscsupport/training.html
RSC
www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm
These courses and others are listed on the Scotfeict website at: http://www.scotfeict.ac.uk/events
which also lists other staff development opportunities for FE staff within
Nationwide training opportunities are available on the NLN events
database at http://www.nln.ac.uk/events
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