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Bodington Buzz - 'making learning more effective' - free seminar ---------------------------------------------------------------- This seminar looks at issues surrounding the integration of open-source tools with an institutional VLE and is to be held at Manchester University on Monday 5 September 05, 11.00-3.45, (the day before the international ALT-C e-learning conference in Manchester). The LAMS learning design package has recently been released as Open Source; TOIA is a highly regarded assessment engine free to UK Education institutions; Personal Development Planning is becoming increasingly required for institutional assessments either using blogging, e-portfolios or other methods; institutions are increasingly looking to share data in a secure way with other collaborating institutions with Shibboleth technology being favoured. All these topics are addressed in the JISC e-learning framework, and all have been integrated using the Bodington VLE. All of the above products are free, as is this seminar hosted by the Computer Science Department at the University of Manchester! We will showcase use and integration of the above tools through the Open Source Bodington VLE. We will also show how Bodington can act as a Shibboleth Identity Provider (institutional-wide central authorisation and authentication store). The talks and demonstrations are aimed at decision makers and potential users of the system who may be considering adopting or switching to an open source VLE. Bodington developers will be in attendance for discussion and user-requirements gathering for future development. The final programme will include: # Personal Development Planning, ePortfolios, Skills profiling and logbooks # Blogs and RSS feeds for dynamic data provision # Learning design sequences LAMS Open Source Software # Sophisticated assessment using TOIA free software # Federated searching tools to produce reading lists # Granular authorisation through The Bodington Open Source VLE # The JISC E-learning Framework gluing things together # Shibboleth integration allowing cross-institutional collaboration # What's new in current and imminent releases of Bodington # Longterm directions of VLEs To book, please go to: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/bodington/ Venue information: University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, (#39 on map) http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/About/location.php Maps: Location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=384530&y=396830&z=1&sv=384750,396750 &st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=649 Parking: c/o Booth St East and A34 Upper Brook St, enter from Booth St East. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=384660&y=396945&z=1&sv=384750,396750 &st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=649 Note: that there is another, similar, event to be held in Inverness on 22 August 2005. Please check at http://www.uhi.ac.uk/lis/buzz/ for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent by Dr Adam Marshall