Last meeting achieved so much that this catch-up was really quite task oriented.
The POC leader Sarah is ill today so thankyou to her back-up, Pru, for stepping in and helped push the ideas about discovery onwards.
Two interesting broad questions emerged today:
1. What do we do with our list of suggested resources? Do we
Simply have a […]
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We walked out of today’s brainstorming meeting excited about a practical understanding of how we could fulfil our vision.
We’re looking at touching each of the big stepping stones for collection management:
From the Internet…
=> Discovery => Evaluation => Metadata =>
…Create a Collection suggestion
Nick had an idea to engage users: finding the wisdom of the crowd in […]
This is the last in four blog posts to summarise the first ‘proof of concept’ innovation project.
The POC team feel they have successfully prototyped a coherent vision for a myedna personalised learning space for educators, showing how educators can manage their own learning journey and digital identities.
Focused on allowing educators to discover, express and share, […]
This is the third in a series of four blog posts to summarise the first ‘proof of concept’ innovation project.
Approach
The final stage of the project focused on social networks: putting the ‘watch me learn’ into myedna, developing an environment where people can quickly and easily find others interested in the same resources and topics.
What we […]
This is the second in a series of four blog posts to summarise the first ‘proof of concept’ innovation project.
Approach
The second stage of the project created a means by which an educator can create and publish their own custom learning identity for others to view and use via the myedna feed-stitcher. They can thus manage […]
This is the first in four blog posts to summarise the first ‘proof of concept’ innovation project.
Phase 1: Discover and create my learning identity
Approach
The first stage of the myedna POC aimed to create a personal learning environment. This allows educators to aggregate their edna contribution and resources as well as from any other website. For […]
You might have noticed in my last blog post the diagram showing an ‘itch’. I just wasn’t happy with Vision as being the most central element of the innovation process - there’s another step before this.
POC2 Collection Management highlighted this. Before creating the vision we referred to our brief and asked:
What’s hard about […]
Our vision calls us to improve the collection by engaging users and buidling better metadata tools.
What does that mean?
In our thoughts it means we have to address three elements of collection management:
Discovery
Evaluation
Metadata
[hmmm sounds like another triptych POC… we all quickly agreed we really don’t want to address each in isolation as POC 1 was done. […]
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