Project

Cal and I have decided on a project. We're going to take photographs of 10 things which define Kent. Our list (currently) is

1. Countryside (this is the Garden of England)
2. A castle - which one is yet to be decided, might be Dover or Leeds or Rochester or another one
3. Beaches in hot weather
4. Canterbury cathedral
   
5. A pub - probably a Shepherd Neame house
6. Hops/Oast house
7. Eurostar
8. White cliffs
9. Invicta - the white horse
10. Sheps Brewery

This is a very loose stab and we'll be changing this - anyone who has any suggestions please offer them. The images will be on Flickr and when we've decided on the best ones I'll put them here too. This project has no set end date.

A project I'm involved with

Are you using social software / web 2.0 tools with your students? For example, social networking sites, blogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter ... ? If so, we would like to hear from you. We are most interested in initiatives that have been running for some time (for example, more than one semester) and those which include a reasonable number of students.

We are working on a JISC-funded project to create case studies of social software use in UK higher and further education. The aim is to help the educational community explore the potential benefits - and problems - of this new domain.

The case studies and project report will be disseminated via the JISC web site in early 2009. These resources will be of significant interest to the HE and FE community, and should attract a very wide readership.

If you think your practice might make a suitable case study, please email Dave Roberts (d.roberts@open.ac.uk) at the Open University. For further details of the project, see http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/workspace.cfm?wpid=8655

Many thanks & with kind regards,

The Project Team

The Open University, UK