Sheffield from new folder on Vimeo.

Another great Institutional Web Management Workshop last week in Sheffield. Sponsored by Statistics into Decisions, I took the chance to try out the Canon 7D and shot a series of interviews:

• Wordpress beyond blogging, Joss Winn
• Getting awesome results from data visualisation, Rich Kirk
• My superpower is content creation. What’s yours?, Relly Annett-Baker

Election fever is well and truly over and I, for one, welcome our new con-dem overlords. No more physical attendance at conferences for me, so today I settled down to  remotely attending the Eduserv Symposium on the Mobile University.

The remote experience was better than I expected. The catering was certainly better with proper milk in my tea rather than uht and I didn’t miss the chicken satay or onion bhajis for dinner. The quality of the audio and video in the stream was very high (provided by Switch New Media I think). I could also pick and choose the sessions I wanted to watch, with Christine Skelton’s talk on ‘The role of a university computing service in an increasingly mobile world’ my favourite.

Sitting at my office desk though, it was difficult to pay attention to sessions with the constant physical and email interruptions. Being able to pause and pick up the stream would have been a big help. There’s an argument for staying at home to watch a conference like this, getting the advantage of the break from work and inspirational sessions whilst also saving the time and money of normal conference attendance.

I’ve embedded the latest below on microphone technique and placement.

#6 Online surgery – Microphone technique and placement from JISC Digital Media on Vimeo.

Lawrence Lessig delivered the keynote It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right, I’ve embedded it below and linked to the mp3 file.

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Nice to see the Institutional Web Management Workshop putting together this wordpress blog for their conference next week, including a chance to say hello and previews of talks.

A growing number of US universities and the University of Sunderland are already using Google Apps for Education to deliver email, instant messaging, calendars and document collaboration.

Next Thursday, 25 June 2009, Google are delivering a free live Google Apps for Education webinar (10am PDT which I think is 6pm British Summer Time)

[Image used courtesy of a Creative Commons attribution licence from Beth Kanter - story behind the photograph here]

Very short notice of tomorrow’s (Wednesday 6 May 2009) Digital copyright with confidence online seminar from JISCLegal. 

I joined their last ‘webinar’ on Web 2.0 and the Law for Colleges and Universities, they’ve got a really strong format and I’d encourage anyone interested to give it a try.

Here’s the programme for tomorrow:

2.00 Introducing the webcast and the law of copyright – John X Kelly
2.10 The Education Exceptions – Jackie Milne
2.20 Orphan Works – Lynn McHugh
2.30 Licences – Mahesh Madhavan
2.40 CLA Comprehensive Higher Education Licence – David Crook
2.55 A round up of the issues – Jason Miles-Campbell

3.00 Coffee Break!
3.05 Some frequently asked questions
3.15 Sourcing Resources – JISC Collections – Ben Taplin
3.30 Sourcing Resources – JISC Digital Media – Steve Hull
3.45 Viewers’ questions and panel discussion
4.00 Close

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Having only discovered JISC TechDis last week, I’m planning to spend tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 22 April 2009, watching their live webcast Web 2.0 and the Law for Colleges and Universities, 2-4pm.

Here’s the (free, no registration necessary) programme:

• 2.00 – What’s it about? Introducing the webcast, and the relevant law
• 2.10 – Scenario 1 – data protection, negligence
• 2.25 – Scenario 2 – accessibility, defamation, obscenity
• 2.40 – Scenario 3 – IPR, employment misconduct
• 2.55 – A round-up of the issues
• 3.00 – Coffee Break!
• 3.05 – Some frequently asked questions
• 3.15 – Framing an institutional policy
• 3.30 – The tutor’s checklist
• 3.40 – Viewers’ questions and panel discussion
• 4.00 – Close

The workshop (conference?) runs over 3 days, 28-30 July 2009, and keynote talks include:

• Headlights on Dark Roads, Derek Law (University of Strathclyde)
• Servicing ‘Core’ and ‘Chore’, David Harrison and Joe Nicholls (University of Cardiff)
• Making your killer applications…killer!, Paul Boag (Headscape)
• How the BBC make websites, Michael Smethurst and Matthew Wood (BBC)

No mention of where the conference will be held on the University of Essex campus, but I’m hoping it’s the fantastic looking Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, dismissed by Prince Charles as a dustbin in 2006.

Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, University of Essex, Colchester [creative commons image courtesy of mira66]