w/c 8/12/08

Mon 8th: RVC (Camden)
Tues 9th: CMI course
Wed 10th: A/L
Thurs 11th: LSHTM (am); SOAS (pm) - BLE Pedagogy meeting
Fri 12th: CSWG (LIDC)

Wobbly movements

Not because I'm unsure of where I'll be, but because I tore a ligament in my ankle and my movements are a bit wobbly!

Mon 24th: RVC (Camden)
Tues 25th RVC (Camden) am; LIDC pm
Wed 26th: A/L
Thurs 27th: RVC (Camden) (BLE Tech mtg) am; City University (M25 L&T Group) pm
Fri 28th: JISC Emerge Workshop (Birmingham)

Mon 1st Dec: Wye College (BLE training for SOAS DL staff)
Tues 2nd: RVC (Camden)
Wed 3rd: A/L
Thurs 4th IOE (BLE SG mtg)
Fri 5th: A/L

Busy 2 weeks ahead

Mon 10th: RVC (Camden)
Tues 11th: APT STAIRS luncheon
Wed 12th: WFH and then travel to Edinburgh
Thurs 13th HeLF meeting in Edinburgh
Fri 14th: A/L

Mon 17th: WFH am / personal appt pm
Tues 18th: CMI course (out of office all day)
Wed 19th: RVC Camden am / Birkbeck pm
Thurs 20th: SOAS
Fri 21st: A/L

Sun, snow, rain and hail...

...Strange mix of weather last week. Potters Bar still had snow on the ground on Friday where I was working. Aiming to keep warm this week and plenty happening to keep me busy:

Mon 3rd: RVC (HH)
Tues 4th: CMI Management Diploma all day
Wed 5th: RVC (Camden); APT STAIRS meetings 10.00-12.30
Thurs 6th: BBK; BLE SG meeting 12-2
Fri 7th: tbc

This week...

...may involve a little less running around than last week:

Mon 27th: RVC (HH)
Tues 28th: RVC (HH)
Wed 20th: JISC e-Learning Framework workshop
Thurs 21st: SOAS am; BLE Tech meeting
Fri 22nd: RVC (HH)

Subject to change - any changes will be corrected on this post

Lost track of time...

...due to my new toy (for those not following me on Twitter, I bought a new MacBook at the weekend!) It's very beautiful, but have been a bit side-tracked and forgot to do this on Friday.

Wed 22nd: RVC (HH)
Thurs 23rd: RVC (Camden)
Fri 24th: Bloomsbury

Next week

The sun's out - hurrah! Hope there's a good weekend to follow.

Movements next week:
Mon 13th Oct: Web2Rights workshop (BBK)
Tues 14th: am RVC Camden, pm LIDC (meeting with LSHTM and LIDC staff)
Wed 15: RVC HH
Thurs 16th: pm RVC HH
Fri 17th: am SOAS, pm tbc

Autumn days

Apologies for lack of post last week - been struggling with laptop, which arrived back from Poland minus its memory... Also, the key board has acquired a more springy feel, as three screws which attached it to the base were also been left behind. Seems like the laptop had a fabulous time... Fights with HP have ensued over the last two weeks to get back lost parts. Parts all returned, just need to get them re-installed. I'm going to buy a Mac for myself for home-use.

Anyway, the week concluded with a very good conference held at Imperial College, managed by ULCC, on the Future of Technology in Education. Some excellent speakers including people from Google, BBC Backstage, Warwick University and JaNET. Look out for a write-up I'll be doing for the ALT publication. Info here at www.fote2008.com

This week, movements are as follows:
Mon 6th Oct - RVC (Camden)
Tues 7th Oct - Management Diploma course day (UoL)
Wed 8th Oct - RVC (HH)
Thur 9th Oct - BLE Pedagogy Group (LIDC)
Fri 10th Oct - RVC (HH)

Not even a lousy postcard

So, my laptop was shipped off to Poland to get fixed. Great use of resources, HP... My laptop has quite a carbon footprint of its own - two trips to America, one to Barbados and now Poland. It's a good life...

Anyway, depending on when it decides to come back to work, my movements currently look like this for the week ahead:

Mon 22nd - RVC (Camden)
Tues 23rd - RVC (HH)
Wed 24th - meeting at City University
Thurs 25th - LIDC (BLE Steeering Group am; BLE Tech Group pm)
Fri 26th - RVC (HH)

8-10 days without a laptop??!!?!

HP is taking away my laptop tomorrow for some urgent repairs - the catch to open it has fallen off and makes use somewhat impossible. The next two weeks may prove to be challenging - I'm guessing that I will be mainly working at the RVC (Camden and HH) and from home - unless anyone has a spare laptop/desktop I can use? Time to fish out my old PDA!

This week, these will be my movements:

Mon 15th: RVC (Camden)
Tues 16th: Bloomsbury (meetings at SOAS and with Terry Bishop)
Wed 17th: RVC (HH)
Thurs 18th: LIDC (RVC E-Media Unit team Away Day)
Fri 20th: LIDC (meeting with Abby Deamer)

Links from George Siemen's presentation at ALT-C 2008

www.elearnspace.org

www.knowingknowledge.com

www.connectivism.ca

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress

BLE Anniversary

This week sees my first anniversary as the BLE Service Manager - time certainly flies when you're having fun. This coming year, I will be planning further training events (including GoogleDocs training off the back of the APT STAIRS project) and looking at where next with BLE developments. Hopefully this will become clearer when the Steering Group meets later this month to look at strategic forward planning.

This week, I will be catching up with admin and planning a few events (BLE Pedagogy meeting in October and the November Blackboard User Group meeting).

Mon-Wed 1st-3rd: RVC (Potters Bar)
Thurs 4th: SOAS
Fri 5th: LIDC

Next week (w/c 8th Sept), I shall be in Leeds from Monday to Thursday for ALT-C and related activities.
On Friday 12th, I shall be working at the RVC in Potters Bar.

w/c/ 18th August

This week will be a quiet week in terms of meetings, so I plan to get my head down and work on some papers, which include the BLE 2008 report, and drafting the interim report for the APT STAIRS project. I will therefore be based between the two RVC campuses, but can change my plans if I am needed in Bloomsbury (though a lot of people are on leave right now).

Mon 18th - RVC (Camden)
Tues - RVC (Hawkshead)
Wed - RVC (Camden)
Thurs - RVC (Hawkshead)
Fri - RVC (Hawkshead)

Next week (w/c 25th Aug) I will be on leave; Jodie Bell will continue to coordinate the Snapshot integration project checking that everyone has sent through what is needed.

w/c 11th August

Mon 11th - RVC (Camden)
Tues 12th - RVC (HH)
Wed 13th - Birkbeck
Thurs 14th - IOE (LKL)
Fri 15th - RVC (Camden)

Using Skype and Twitter is also a great way to find out what I'm doing - would be really useful for BLE staff to get signed up - might cut-down on the spam email I send out!! Email me for details...

w/c 4th August

Mon 4th - RVC (Hawkshead)
Tues 5th - RVC (Camden)
Wed 6th - Meetings in the morning; afternoon at LIDC
Thurs 7th - BLE SG @ SOAS
Fri 8th - RVC (Hawkshead)

Next week

Mon 28th - RVC (Camden)
Tues 29th - LIDC
Wed 30th - RVC (Hawkshead)
Thurs 31st - BLE Tech meeting (Birkbeck)
Fri 1st August - Bloomsbury (College tbc)

Bloomsbury Website updated

Today, I have been getting to grips with Zope to update the BLE pages on the Bloomsbury Colleges website:

Check out my hard work here:
www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/ble

w/c 21st July

Mon 21st - RVC (Camden)
Tues 22nd - RVC (Camden)
Wed 23rd - RVC (Hawkshead)
Thurs 24th - RVC (Camden) and LSHTM (Snapshot consultancy); SOAS for lunch with LIDC staff
Fri 25th - IOE (Snapshot consultancy cont'd)

w/c 14th July

Mon - RVC (Camden)
Tues - Keele University (JISC Innovation Forum)
Wed - Keele
Thurs - Birkbeck
Fri - IOE (LKL)

The week ahead

Mon 7th July - RVC (Camden)
Tues 8th July - LIDC
Wed 9th July - BLE SG (am); Bloomsbury (pm)
Thurs 10th July - RVC (Hawkshead)
Fri 11th July - A/L