We've just had a very hectic and successful three days where 37 academics, developers and students came to Wolfson College and RLO-CETL, Cambridge to meet up and work collaboratively on learning object projects.
We started on Monday 8 December with an introduction to the Wolfson Reward Programme for newcomers – what it is and how to get the best out of it. Local academic coordinators presented ongoing work from each of the partner institutions and Tom Boyle gave an overview of the priorities and challenges for us as we move into our final funding phase 2009-10.
In the afternoon, participants split into groups to conduct teamwork. A large group from Nottingham and a number of partner universities focused on the SHOULD (Supporting health occupations’ understanding of learning disabilities) project. This is a very exciting project, being completely student driven. For more info see: http://www.nottinghamnetlearning.com/nursing/sonet/projects/should/
The developers are working hard on Version 2 of the GLO-maker tool (see V. 1.0 at http://glo-maker.org and they got together for a techy Flex tutorial, continued on Day Two.
In the evening we had a jolly fizz reception and sit-down supper at Wolfson in the Combination room.
Mini-project team-work continued the next morning and afternoon. Jenny Piggott, Director of NRICH Maths, came along to give a great interactive presentation of some of the many resources plus audience participation in a very interesting rope trick! Maths doesn't have to be difficult or boring. See http://nrich.maths.org/ for much more.
That evening we were lucky enough to be invited to the Master's Lodge at Magdalene College for a Reception before sitting down to a splendid candlelit dinner in Hall. The Master, Duncan Robinson, gave a highly appropriate after dinner speech highlighting the importance of teaching and sharing and this struck a chord with all of us.
Numbers somewhat depleted on Wednesday morning (wonder why?), we regrouped for a final session with presentations of work so far from the students on the SHOULD project, Alan Williams from Nottingham who got some feedback on his design, and Tom Boyle rounded off the morning with an overview of the developer wiki where they get up to all things technical.
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