Once again we enlisted the help of our colleagues at JANET(UK) to produce a summary report for our Future of Technology in Education conference (FOTE09). The full report is available for download and gives a detailed overview of the days presentations and panel sessions.
We hope this document provides a good reference and summary of what [...]
Its a wrap!
Oct 6
So, FOTE09 is a wrap! I still can’t quite believe its all over! Thanks so much to everyone who attended the event on Friday. We hope you had a great day! We know how busy you all are and really appreciate you taking time out to spend the day with us.
We would also like to send [...]
Cloud Computing seems to be the Marmite of IT folks, they either love it or hate it. But unlike aformentioned “savory spread” (and I’m quoting from their corporate website), cloud computing certainly deserves an un-emotional and professional look at its place within an institutions IT strategy.
We have invited Tim Marshall, CEO at JANET(UK), to chair [...]
FOTE09 goes virtual
Oct 1
There has already been some debate about the Virtual Worlds Panel we are running at this year’s conference. And even though we have to admit that ‘Second Life Virgin’ probably best describes our very own experience with virtual worlds, we are – as always – open to new ideas.
We teamed up with Virtually-Linked, a Second [...]
**** Posted on behalf of Robert Moores at Leeds Metropolitan University ****
I’m looking forward to sharing our experience of using Google Apps Education Edition at Leeds Met. On a broader note, the cloud and its impact on Leeds Met and the wider educational sector are starting to come on to our agenda.
There’s a feeling that [...]
**** Posted on behalf of Anton Murphy at Intechnology ****
What is UC ? – Unified Communications technology provides business-class IP telephony combined with presence, instant messaging, video calling and remote shared desktop.
Institutions utilise a single comms infrastructure for data & voice, which means there is no need for a premises-based PBX. An institutions existing JANET [...]
Virtual Worlds Panel @FOTE09
Sep 28
This year’s conference features two for/against panel sessions discussing virtual worlds and cloud computing.
Chairing the virtual world panel will be Harold Fricker, a past speaker at FOTE08, eLearning Adviser for HE with the JISC RSC South East and Innovator, Entrepreneur, Broker and Train Spotter with a can-do attitude.
The question Harold will be discussing with our [...]
A recent ULCC survey (Collaboration & Cloud Computing in Education, 2009) showed that 95% of educational institutions rely on e-mail for collaboration. Ouch. So what’s wrong with this? Well, for a start nobody enjoys receiving large file attachments in their e-mail inbox, it’s a sure-fire way to make yourself unpopular with anyone working remotely and [...]
A colleague recently pointed me at Microsoft’s Community Clips. It is a community-driven website where users share training videos about Microsoft Office. Why, he wondered, would anyone want to freely document Microsoft’s profit-making software?
I was intrigued, so I had a poke around. It didn’t look like a vibrant healthy community to me. The most popular featured [...]
Why FOTE?
Aug 19
ULCC prides itself on its ability to adapt with changes in the technology landscape and evolve with the growing demands of its customer base. With a diverse portfolio that includes hosting services, e-learning services, web development and podcasting, the future of technology in education is never far from our minds.
So what’s the connection between this [...]
