• Make: Collecting memorabilia – real and virtual
  Monday 29 April from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13A

For our projects collecting First World War memorabilia across Europe we combine online crowdsourcing with ‘Roadshow’

events to reach and engage a wide audience. This session will introduce the Oxford Community Collection Model and show

how it has been used for projects such as The Great War Archive and Europeana 1914-1918.

• Make: The Pocket Librarian
  Tuesday 30 Apr from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13B

As part of a recent JISC Transformations project, the libraries at Oxford University have been creating an on-line library

induction which can be accessed through smart phones and tablet computers. This induction is designed to answer common questions

posed by undergraduate freshers who often find the Oxford library system confusing and difficult. In this talk we will discuss the

purpose of the induction and how it was designed and developed. This talk may be of interest to anybody wishing to use mobile t

echnology to help teach or assist students.

• Make: Oxford access for You(Tube)
  Wednesday 1 May from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13C

In this session Simon Clark will  outline his experience of running the Oxford access-oriented YouTube channel ‘SimonOxfPhys’,

which has received over 150,000 views and almost 1,000 subscribers. This experience has suggested a strategy, complementary to

current approaches, that could reveal Oxford to potential students through the use of on-line video blogs (vlogs). This comparatively

nascent format would make Oxford stand apart from other halls of learning for the web 2.0 generation, and continue its history of innovation

and prestige.

• Make: Urban design goes global – a recipe for engaging staff and students?
  Thursday 2 May from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13D

We will be discussing our developing project for an open educational resource for the urban design modules at Oxford Brookes University.

We have been working on creating a very collaborative and open environment on the web, highly dynamic and integrated to social networks which

can facilitate learning and teaching at Brookes at an initial stage and then progress to a global audience. The project uses diy webdesign and encourages

students and staff  participation by making academic content public.

There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at the historic Queen’s College Oxford.

DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford’s IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.

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Our guest speaker is Philippa O’Connor, Deputy Director, Education Policy Support, and Head of Education Policy Development. Philippa previously worked as Senior Assistant Registrar in the Medical Sciences Division and was appointed to her current role in October last year. She is reviewing current policies, practices and training opportunities for staff and students in relation to plagiarism and good academic practice, including use of Turnitin. Philippa’s work includes support for  the University Skills Group, the Undergraduate and Graduate Panels, and Education Committee.

This is an excellent opportunity to provide feedback that can be considered by the Education Committee as part of its regular review of policy and guidance. Please come and along and make your voice heard.

We shall also hear from a department that uses Turnitin for online submission of summative work and their experiences in using Turnitin for Admissions for all its graduate recruitment this year.

We hope you will be able to join us.

• Welcome to IT Breakfast so useful, it is such a brilliant idea and I love the proactive way you advertise what you do to make our life easier so thank you
• Understanding the range of services and training available and seeing how approachable and friendly everyone was.
• The opportunity to ask follow-up questions. some of the info I could have found online myself, but asking it is always easier (and in some times quicker).
• Meeting other people new to the University
• The engagement with staff while we had breakfast.
• Chance to talk 1-2-1
• Post-presentation networking
• Information about IT learning courses, IT resources and services at Oxford.
• Overview of backing up and virus protection- I assumed this was already in place but good to be told I had to check it.
• Talking to the IT staff afterwards. I had a number of questions that covered a range of services and got them all answered in about 10 minutes..
• Getting to chat to staff over coffee about my specific enquiries.
• Booklet with courses in, seeing the venue where workshops will be held.
• A good overall introduction to the IT Services within the University. The future courses to be held in the training rooms would be most useful. Excel Spreadsheets in particular.
• Visiting the IT department and meeting staff.
• Useful introductory talk and programme of future courses Thank you
• The introduction to TSM, and the courses available for booking
• Meeting members of IT Services
• Overview of services available and where to go to find information/get help
• Picking up some flyers at the end about training and social media.
• Speaking to one of the team in the breakfast room as we had specific questions about setting up some filming and a blog.
• The discussion with the various members of staff over breakfast
• Information about what courses are available and how to find the information
• Very good introduction. Right level of communication
• The networking afterwards
• Raised my awareness of all the IT services available to me and how to make the most of them. Also reassuring how engaged and approachable the IT team are.
• I got a good overview of what was on offer and how it is organised. The backup facility is probably the most useful.

The event will take place at 5pm on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at the University of Oxford IT Services. It is free to attend, but spaces are limited, so we ask you to book your place early.
To book: http://goo.gl/5dlwe
The journal: http://goo.gl/U8hmq

The event will take place at 5pm on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at the University of Oxford IT Services.

The event is free to attend, but spaces are limited, so we ask you to book your place early

Monday 5 November         16:00-17:00

 Another opportunity to benefit from Garr Reynold’s expertise and experience in communicating complex information.  By appealing equally to the principles of design, Zen simplicity, and the art of story-telling, Garr Reynolds will share an approach that leads to compelling visual presentations that stay in the memory. Garr will discuss narrative and the visual design strategies that clarify the role of the presenter and the presentation, giving a cohesive overview of how they interact. Those of you who have seen Garr’s previous presentations will know they are in for an entertaining and informative hour. The emphasis for this session is on story-telling and its part in a presentation.

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