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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Aug 6
We are still slightly shocked – in a totally good way of course – that we sold out FOTE09 in less than 6h, that’s like a ticket every 90sec, wow.
We already received a number of emails asking to be put on a waiting list. We operated something similar last year and there are always a [...]
Wow – the tickets for FOTE 09 have now all been claimed! We launched the core allocation of tickets at 10am on Tuesday the 5th Aug and by 4pm they had all been sold. We can’t believe the response and thank each and everyone of you who signed up for your support. We know you [...]
Jul 29
Wow – FOTE 09 is almost upon us! It only seems like yesterday that we were wrapping up the inaugural event. Doesn’t time fly!
Over the last few months, we have been busy working away behind the scenes preparing for the second FOTE conference and we think we have done a great job in putting an [...]
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