Okay then, here’s the last post of a very quick jaunt through the more interesting work highlights of the last two weeks – yes, two cos I missed last week (too pre-occupied with da blubber thing) …
Had a very captivating discussion with reps from the Students Union regarding their presence in the City Centre Campus and how we may be able to help with respect to related ventures – they are such a great bunch of people – the pres, Andrew Cargill (Cargi) and the others get up to SO MUCH! Check out http://www.newportunion.com/ to see info about The Port Factor (X-Factor on roids!) and of course, the famous Radio Noize, named after our VC … click on the link to listen in Realplayer –
http://www.newportunion.com/station_players/radio.ram
We also had an interesting meeting to try and crystallise aspects of the IT strategy for a building that won’t open for nearly 3 years and will have to be relevant for many years after that! Part of that exercise is looking at RFID and we had a couple of demos this week from some of the leading suppliers – but I don’t reckon anybody’s wands really work yet!
Two meetings were held looking at how we design the internal space of what is currently being referred to as the Plateau – a learning resources area that will contain, well, most things! We met with an internal designer and student reps and LIS staff separately …
Oh, I also had a meeting with the fantastic David Longman (Senior Lecturer in ICT in our School of Education) and we talked about so many fantastic ideas that we’re going to get together on – he’s a really inspirational chap!
Part of the above chat was in relation to a meeting that I also had this week with a Stuart Ball who is seconded to work for Microsoft – something quite exciting hopefully, but more on that if/when it comes to light.
We also worked on this year’s submission of the department’s Annual Monitoring Exercise for the department – and one of my colleagues, Michael Webb, was simply fantastic in the help he provided to get it out – TA, M, you’re a HERO!
Finally, also looked at the JD (job description) for the recruiting of a Professor of Learning and Teaching to head up our planned Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Now this is very VERY exciting indeed! Again, more on that if and when …
Check out the next post (or the previous one, I haven’t got a clue) for the blubba challenge update …
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