This week was a week of phoning, e-mailing, Skyping, and generally arranging. In our Skype conversation on Wednesday, Paul and I also used the Skype ‘Unyte’ screen-sharing application which was quite successful.
On Friday afternoon, I listened –and looked!- in to an Instant Presenter session hosted by RSC Scotland N-E on the Scottish RSCs’ Newsfeed. This is an RSS feed from their news blog (on Wordpress – hosted locally): http://www.scottish-rscs.org.uk/newsfeed , and is their new way of distributing news to their community. The use of a blog gives some key advantages – a variety of media can be embedded; the information ‘persists’ and is taggable and searchable; and feedback/comments can be added by readers. The blog’s content will obviously have Scottish content, and JISC content, and is FE-focussed (they use Google Reader to get some of their local info).They try to add a ‘personal touch’ with an editorial and a ‘guest spot’. Not many pictures on the blog until you follow some of the links - I found a nice one of a horned owl (from Flickr used under Creative Commons) with some useful information about the RSPB's learn Birds online course.
