http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill Just another Blogs.cetis.ac.uk weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:45:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is part of a post that's been sitting on my desktop for sometime, however I've been spurned onto publishing it by the recent posts from my colleague John Robertson about the use of IMS Content Packaging and QTI in the current UK OER programme. Part of the support function we ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/03/09/proding-around-curriculum-design-what-happened-to-content-packaging/ Over the past year or so we've been doing a lot of thinking and work around what we've now come round to calling distributed learning environments. Essentially, ways that you can extend current VLE functionality without having to change/upgrade your VLE. Concurrently it also seems that every HE ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/03/08/cetisdle-presentations-now-online/ We have just published a new briefing paper on distributed learning environments. The briefing provides a short overview into a number of models for extending functionality of existing VLEs. The briefing paper came about directly as a result of our work over the past year into ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/02/26/distributed-learning-environments-briefing-paper/ Co-located with the dev8D, the JISC Developer Days event, this week, I along with about 150 others gathered at UCL for a the 2nd Linked Data Meetup London. Over the past year or so the concept and use of linked data seems to be gaining more and more ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/02/26/2nd-linked-data-meetup-london/ This year's European LAMS and Learning Design conference will be held on 15 July at the University of Oxford. Following the success of last year's back to back events, CETIS will be holding a Design Bash on 16th July, again at the University of Oxford "The focus ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/02/18/sharing-great-ideas-lams-2010-conference-and-design-bash/ Via Downes this morning, I came across Ray Henderson's Blackboard's Open Standards Commitments: Progess made blog post. Ray gives a summary of the work being done with IMS Common Cartridge and IMS LTI. Having BB onboard in developments to truly "free the content" (as is the ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/02/11/blackboard-moving-towards-ims-standards-integration/ Sometimes I forget how integral web 2 technologies are to my working life. I blog, facebook, twitter, bookmark, aggregate RSS feed, do a bit of 'waving', you know all the usual suspects. And I'm always up for trying any new shiny service or widgety type thing that comes along. ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/02/10/sheen-sharing-getting-the-web-20-habit/ Regular visitors to the CETIS website may have noticed that we now have a video from the CETIS09 conference on the front page. As the content consists of "talking heads" from delegates, we hope that it gives a flavour as to why people came to the conference and ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2010/01/27/cetis-09-the-video-some-thoughts-on-the-process/ This is my first attempt at live-blogging for the Semantic Technologies: which way now? meeting, 10 December 2009. Follow the link below to see the blog which is agumented with tweets relating to the event. Semantic Technologies: Which way now? http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2009/12/10/semantic-technologies-which-way-now-live-blog/ One of the hot topics at this year's ALT was "the VLE is dead debate". Following on from this, ALT with colleagues at the University of Bradford have set up a new Learning Environments Review SIG (LERSIG) which has just had its inaugural meeting. Today's event "reviewing the ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2009/12/08/reviewing-the-vle/