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Apologies for x-posting! Bodington Buzz - UHI Millennium Institute Executive Office, Inverness. This free seminar will be hosted by 'Learning and Information Services' of the UHI Millennium Institute. UHI run the Bodington Virtual Learning Environment locally. 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 virtual learning environment. 10:30 Introduction 10:50 Bodington Demonstration, including QuickStart 11:20 Learning Design - LAMS 11:40 Personal Development Planning, ePortfolios, Skills profiling and logbooks and their implementation in Bodington. 12:10 Blogs and RSS feeds for dynamic data provision Oxford - Ramble 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30 Shibboleth integration allowing cross-institutional collaboration 1:50 Learning design sequences LAMS Open Source Software 2:10 Sophisticated assessment using TOIA free software Oxford/Strathclyde University 2:30 Granular authorisation through The Bodington Open Source VLE 2:50 What's new in current and imminent releases of Bodington 3:10 Tetra: JISC ELF 3:15 Panel: Longterm directions of VLEs 3:45 Depart 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 these products are free, as is this seminar hosted by the UHI Millennium Institute. This showcases use and integration of the most important tools through the use of the Bodington Open Source VLE system as an institutional-wide central authorization and authentication store. Bodington was developed at the University of Leeds and is now being used by the, the UHI Millennium Institute, University of Oxford, the University of Manchester, and various FE colleges. It is an open source system, and entirely free to use, that is experiencing a considerable amount of development work. Location: Executive Office Boardroom, UHI Millennium Institute, Inverness. Time: 10:30 to 3:45 Further info and Booking: http://www.uhi.ac.uk/lis/buzz/ Adam Marshall (on behalf of UHI) -- Adam Marshall: OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN. Shameless plug: Use the Bodington VLE http://bodington.org Blog: http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/blog/adamm/ Cheese of the month: Slovakian String Cheese ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle