Walk the Talk

I had to bite the bullet this week and take a look at the recording of the RSCtv session – ePortfolios in practice – that I delivered a few weeks ago. We’ve recently had a recording facility made available to us which means that we can now make our new RSCtv sessions available from our website. Jason Miles-Campbell from JISCLegal was guest presenter over lunchtime on Tuesday this week and he presented his 5 Top Copyright Tips. His session was also recorded and pressure to make Jason’s session available on our site forced me to review my own session which I’d managed to put off to date.

Somehow delivering a session using video conferencing is one thing but watching yourself on screen is another and I was nervous about reviewing what I actually said, captured for posterity. Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and get on with it. Well you know it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I was uncomfortable about seeing myself on screen and quite sceptical about losing the live, interactive element to the session. I felt was a “unique selling point” offered to people signing in to RSCtv, but the recording really works quite well. We’ve two recordings available just now but we’ll be recording the re-runs that are scheduled for the last week in June and will be making them available to watch again from our website.

ePortfolios in Practice - watch again

Five top copyright Tips - watch again
Schedule of re-runs

This week I’ve also been out and about, invited to present at College People Week at SFEU on Wednesday, and invited to attend the Scottish Hospitality Association conference today to disseminate information about JISC services and also what support we can give to staff. Events like this give me an opportunity to talk to staff and gain a better appreciation of the issues they are dealing with in their day to day activities.

In the last couple of years I’ve often threatened to spend some time back in a college just to update my knowledge of the curriculum and fully appreciate the pressures and priorities of staff working in FE. I’d welcome an opportunity if any of you reading this have an opening. Actually as I write this, I realise that our plan for next year to work with course teams to take a more holistic approach to course design, and the use of new technology within it might provide this. As well as the RSC team providing support for course development, I’m quite sure that as a small team, delivering a specialist service, we would benefit from spending time with and working with groups of college staff.To find out more about the curriculum development initiative for next year email support@rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk