What are you going to do with your extra day?

Develop a skill? Grow your knowledge and understanding? Sort out your reading list? To mark the 2012 Leap Year all courses at OUCS on February the 29th are FREE. Book now to avoid disappointment.

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Writers Inspire

 The first of the new materials coming out of our ‘Great Writers Inspire’ project with the Faculty of English are available in our podcasts collections now.

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Matterhorn unconference

This week LTG is hosting  the first Matterhorn OpenCast unconference.  Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels,  and provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos.

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LTG case studies on YouTube

Each week this term we will publish a video ’Casestudy in Innovative Practice’ on the LTG YouTube Channel. The case studies capture the experiences of lecturers and students at the University who are using technology in innovative ways to enrich their teaching and learning.

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Making it easy

 Newly published: an article about learning technologies at Oxford by LTG colleagues Melissa Highton, Jill Fresen and Joanna Wild. Making academic OER easy: Reflections on technology and openness at Oxford University

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Open Advent

  In celebration of a good year, and in the spirit of giving, re-using and sharing we have created an online advent calendar chock full of tasty online resources  free to download. Click a number each day in December.

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Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?

Lunchtime session 15th February, OUCS

This session explores the relevance of Twitter to university teaching, research and engagement activities. Come along to find out how to get started, grow your following, and hone your tweeting style to maximise your impact.

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Make a movie in a week

Campus MovieFest is an Apple sponsored event that invites groups of students to make a film in a week as part of a national competition. We are hosting the participants this week in our IT training rooms.

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Busy, but not too busy to help you

Last year 2727 individuals enjoyed our courses, so you can see we get very busy; make sure you don’t miss out by signing up today to the courses that could help you with IT.

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Digitally mastered

Liz Masterman and Joanna Wild, researchers in the LTG, presented a paper at the annual  BERA conference . They argued for the importance of considering cultural, historical and institutional context when researching how teachers and learners engage with learning technology, giving examples from two major LTG research projects: Thema and LDSE.

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