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RSC-e-banner Dear Colleagues, I hope that some of you had a good break over the half term and that you are now feeling ready for some fresh challenges. I wanted to remind you about the ERTMF forum on June 12th at N.Herts College. We still have quite a few spaces left to fill and, since I first emailed you, we have been fortunate in adding some fresh speakers. In addition to Andy Ostcliffe fro Salford Softrware we also have James Farnhill from the JISC Innovations team who has been specifically charged with developing guidance for FE and HE on this increasingly important subject. We will also be joined by Matt Greening who has recently taken over responsibility for Helpdesk Management at N. Herts College. N. Herts has one of the largest IT Teams in the Region and has a number of remote campuses so it will be interesting to hear how they manage this. It would be good to contrast this with Helpdesk provision from a small IT Team, i.e. less than five. If any of you feel you would like to contribute a presentation on this, there is still a spare slot. James Farnhill's podcast on Identity Management is available at: <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/avfiles/news/interviews/podcast40jamesfarnhill. mp3> podcast40jamesfarnhill.mp3 (9 MB) <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/avfiles/news/interviews/podcast40jamesfarnhill. mp3> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/avfiles/news/interviews/podcast40jamesfarnhill.m p3 Secondly, I need to remind you all yet again about Federated Access Management. I have been given a list of institutions which are 'at risk' and asked to contact you directly to urge upon you and your SMTs the need to complete this work. Mark Williams from the JISC will be joining us on the 11th and will be happy to provide an update. Because of the growing urgency of this issue we have extended an invitation to the meeting to Learning Resources Managers, as it probably needs a combined approach. If your Institution has not yet sent off the joining letter which is available at: http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/LetterofApplication It needs to do so PDQ. After the letter has been sent off, a Request for further information about your Institution will be sent by JANET(UK), who are managing the process. The worry is that if this is left too late, there will be nobody at the College to deal with it! Robert Prabucki has told me that he will be on holiday on the date of the meeting but has offered to try and find a substitute, particularly to bring us up to date on JANET Talk developments. Whilst we wish him well on his well-earned vacation, I am sure his engaging style will be much missed. All in all, I do hope those of you who have not yet signed up for the meeting will feel motivated to do so. The plenary at the end of the meeting is meant to provide an opportunity for delegates to tell Stephen Tanner and myself what changes they would like to see made in the forum. At the moment we are planning a joint ERTMF, and e:Learning forum for October in which one of the themes could be Sustainable IT, and another could be mobile computing which is a hot issue for ACL and Work-based Learning. This would also be a good chance to debate the pros and cons of thin client computing and to review wireless developments. The booking form for the ERTMF conference on June 12th is at: http://info.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/booking/booking_form.asp?eid=537 Kindest Regards, Thomas RSCs - Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning Book Your Place Now!: e-Fair 2008 is at Barnfield College, Luton on 4th July <http://info.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=433> http://info.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=433 Keep up to date with e-bytes for free <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/e-bytes.html> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/e-bytes.html Why not try our Eastern Region RSS Feeds for News and Events? <http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/services/rssfeeds.htm> http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/services/rssfeeds.htm ********************************************** Thomas Rochford e:Learning Advisor, Infrastructure & Learning Technologies JISC Regional Support Centre - Eastern Anglia Ruskin University, CU House, Southernhay, Basildon, SS14 1EZ Eml: [log in to unmask] Mob: 07500 669 002 Fax: 01223 563142 Skype: cambridge.serendipity <http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/> http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk ************************************