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Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace

Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace

By Jez on July 28, 2009

If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Academia, Education, research, Social Media, social networking, university of sheffield, uspace | 4 Responses

Quickie: University of Sheffield to use Google Mail

By Jez on May 27, 2009

I got an email in my inbox today announcing that the university will be transferring all taught students’ email accounts to Google Apps for Education (also previously discussed on Chris Sexton’s blog). As is fairly standard, university email has until now been handled in-house. I’ve never had any problems with it: it’s reliable, and the [...]

Posted in Quickies | Tagged CICS, Email, gmail, google, google mail, university of sheffield | 2 Responses

Social media resources for learning and teaching

By Jez on March 11, 2009

This post is specifically intended to support my seminar given as part of the seminar of the same title, given to my colleagues on the PCHE course as part of the “Expanding your repertoire” special interest session on Wednesday 11th March 2009. I’ll give a brief description of this seminar at the end of this [...]

Posted in eLearning | Tagged eLearning, Learning, pche, resources, Social Media, teaching, technology, university of sheffield | 1 Response

bluecloud project launch!

By Jez on March 4, 2009

The time has come to release bluecloud (formerly known as the Student Learning Community 2.0) on an unsuspecting public. We’ve created a space for the community on the University’s new uSpace social networking platform and seeded it with a few interesting ideas, but what we’d really love is to get more students in reading, writing, [...]

Posted in Bluecloud | Tagged Academia, Bluecloud, pche, students, twitter, university of sheffield, uspace | Leave a response

Project update

By Jez on January 26, 2009

It’s been a little while since I posted, so just to keep you interested, here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to.

Learning and Teaching Conference 2009

Mark and I, introduced by Patrice, presented a showcase session on the project at the university’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Mark gave an overview of the motivation [...]

Posted in Bluecloud | Tagged Bluecloud, Conference, Learning, SLC 2.0, social networking, teaching, technology, university of sheffield, uspace, vuvox | Leave a response

Social networking poll

By Jez on September 10, 2008

Social networking poll, originally uploaded by Jez Cope.

I was busy pulling together some links for my last post when I came across this beauty. I think this says it all about the prevalence of Facebook in the current student community!

Posted in Bluecloud | Tagged social networking, students, university of sheffield | Leave a response

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