Conference season

Seeing as though I haven’t posted anything on here for ages, let me explain what I’ve been upto recently and why a blog about e-learning hasn’t really mentioned e-learning.

It’s that time again when e-learning folk go off to the annual conferences, workshops, and college training days. I’m no exception to that scenario. Last year, I gave a seminar at my college’s E-learning fair about using our Learning Centres’ resources, and two others at our department’s team planning sessions.  I’d also been to a couple of JISC-organised workshops about Shibboleth and Inductions, respectively.

This year, I’ve already been to a conference about Federated/Meta searching and a 2-dayer about Federated Access Management, so lots of networking to keep me busy. I’ve also got myself involved in and contribute to some of the support forums on the JSIC RSC website, plus I’ve been a regular contributor to our own Moodle forums. I’ve also contributed to and presented things at several of the Learnng Centres’ co-ordinators meeting throughout the year.

As a result (probably!) of getting involved in the RSC forums and going to the conferences, we’ve been asked to have an exhibition stand at the RSC’s annual conference at the end of this month, and I’ve been asked to organise and present it, along with our official e-learning developer. Plus, I’m doing a seminar at each of our two e-learning fairs next week and the week after, and it looks like I’m going to be doing the same at our Learning Services planning days in July.

So, lots of achievements so far this year, and lots to organise over the next few weeks. The e-learning/resources side of my job is definitely taking over my  role of managing the computer drop-in room at work.