Even if you saw this on other lists a couple of days ago, I'm sure you
won't mind seeing it again. The information about the CETIS13 conference
alone is enough to justify a re-send :)
Phil.
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Logo <http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk> August 2012
JISC CETIS Newsletter
CETIS13 - Save the Date!
Our Annual conference will be on the 12th and 13th March 2013 at the
Lakeside Centre, Aston. Registration will open in November.
/Top posts this month.../
Unhosted – building web apps without servers
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Scott Wilson
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/29th Aug/
For some reason I never came across this before, but it seems there is
something of a movement (complete with manifesto) promoting
client-side-only web apps.
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<http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/unhosted-building-web-apps-without-servers/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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NPG adopts Creative Commons licence
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Lorna M. Campbell
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/22nd Aug/
Last month the National Portrait Gallery changed their image licencing
policy to allow free downloads for non-commercial and academic purposes.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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Analytics and #moocmooc
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Sheila MacNeill
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/21st Aug/
This is my final post on my experiences of the #moocmooc course that ran
last week, and I want to share a few of my reflections on the role of
analytics (and in this case learning analytics), primarily from my
experiences as a learner on the course.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2012/08/21/analytics-and-moocmooc/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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The Role of Libraries and Information Professionals in OER Initiatives
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Gema Bueno de la Fuente for OtherVoices
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/17th Aug/
Writing for our Guest Blog Gema Bueno de la Fuente of the University
Carlos III of Madrid reports on the outputs of a survey, undertaken with
R. John Robertson (formerly of CETIS, University of Strathclyde) and
Stuart Boon, (formerly of CAPLE, University of Strathclyde), on the role
of libraries and librarians in OER initiatives.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/othervoices/2012/08/17/the-role-of-libraries-and-information-professionals-in-oer-initiatives/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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Improving the student experience with an improved tutorial selection process
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Clifton Kandler for OtherVoices
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/17th Aug/
As part of the JISC Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design
project, the UG-Flex project at the University of Greenwich undertook
set out to "reveal and enhance the University’s curriculum development
processes in order to support a more agile and diverse curriculum
underpinned by integrated systems." Clifton Kandler, Web Services
Manager explains more in this guest post.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/othervoices/2012/08/17/improving-the-student-experience-with-improved-an-improved-tutorial-selection-process/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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Where does schema.org fit in the (semantic) web?
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Phil Barker
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/16th Aug/
Over the summer I’ve done a couple of presentations about what
schema.org is and how it is implemented (there are links below). Quick
reminder: schema.org is a set of microdata terms (itemtypes and
properties) that big search engines have agreed to support.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2012/08/16/where-does-schemaorg-fit-in-the-semantic-web/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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Follower guidance: concept and rationale
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Simon Grant
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/11th Aug/
The idea that I am calling "follower guidance" is about how to relate
with chosen others to promote good work, well being, personal growth and
development, in an essentially peer-to-peer manner.
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<http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2012/08/11/follower-guidance-idea/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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Google Spreadsheet Template for getting social activity around RSS feeds
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Martin Hawksey
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/7th Aug/
A post from Alan Levine (@cogdog) on Syndication Machines (plus
syndication of syndication) which details how feeds for the cMOOC course
ds106 are aggregated and resyndicated got me thinking if there was
additional data around student blog posts that could be usefully captured.
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<http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/08/blog-activity-data-feed-template/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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The JISC Observatory Session at IWMW 2012
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JISC Observatory
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/2nd Aug/
UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012,
featured a 90 minute workshop session entitled “Identifying and
Responding to Emerging Technologies” which was delivered by Brian Kelly
and Thom Bunting of the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN and Mark
Power of JISC CETIS.
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<http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/2012/08/02/the-jisc-observatory-session-at-iwmw-2012/?utm_source=august12newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august12nl>
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18 other posts by JISC CETIS this month are available on our website.
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