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[JISC] Weeknote 10/33
Monday was spent at the Repositories and the Open Web event in London. Phil has written up a report from the day so I won’t duplicate that but it was an interesting day – particularly as it demonstrated that within the Learning/OER materials part of our community the focus was much more on solving the…
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[JISC] Weeknote 9/33
It is Sunday afternoon and the sun is actually shining for a change so I’ll have to make this update a short one. Monday and Tuesday were dominated by the JISC Conference which I have already written about. Just to reiterate I thought it was great and probably the best of the seven I have…
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[JISC] Weeknote 8/33
Due to the Easter bank holiday and the (wonderful) University of Bristol closure day on Tuesday this a very short week. It also had a strange feel to it as so many members of staff had extended their breaks and it felt a bit Marie Celeste like at times. One nice side effect of this…
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[JISC] Weeknote 7/33
Weeknote 6/33 was a no-show as I was on annual leave that week and while I could write an update on vodka, champagne and Erdinger consumption and Twestival attendance it probably is inappropriate for this format. Week 7/33 inevitably consisted of a fair bit of catching up. As I have mentioned before JISC is a…
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[JISC] Weeknote 5/33
This week had two pretty overwhelming themes – process and synthesis. First though a quick rant about just how poor the IT infrastructure we have to work with internally is. From about 4.30 last Friday til past midday on Monday we had no email at all. For an organisation that essentially runs on email (for…