Development & Implementation Awayday July 31, 2009
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L-R: Vicki McGarvey, Trevor Pull, Anna Armstrong, Marek Oledzki, Sue McKnight, Barry Gregory, Lisa Warburton, Angela Trikic, Helen Adey, Sharon Potter
In the first part of the day, Marek provided an overview of our Communications strategy, Trevor, gave an overview of trusts within the LOR, Lisa demonstrated our institutional repository, iREP http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/R?RN=472560279 and I gave a brief overview of JORUM.
After Coffee we broke out into groups, each group was named after a famous potter/pottery, Wedgwood (Josiah) Cliff (Clarice) Moorcroft (William) , an attempt to bring to the event something relating to my Stoke-on-Trent roots. The first activity required groups to come up with 5 issues that we will need to address with our project pilots. We used an approach that Sue McKnight has regularly used at our Library awaydays, brainstorming with Post-its. It goes something like this, each individual within the group writes his or her issues/ideas/thoughts on a Post-it, one Post-it for each. Then the group together consolidates all the issues that individuals have noted into themes, this has been described as the enzyme approach, the rationale being that eventually this will facilitate the identification of issues for the whole group…I think a demonstration of this technique would make a nice learning object, but that’s for another day.
After lunch, remaining in our groups we identified 5 activities that we would need to undertake when rolling out training and support, group were asked to put their activities in order of priority – again using the approach above. This was followed by a brainstorm on how to develop and enhance our relationships with projects within the inf11 programme and with D2L. Then a brief demo of the LOR. Then the intensive day was concluded with an overview of the LOR roadmap by Yvonne.
I would like to thank everybody for their enthusiastic contributions during the day, we successfully collated some useful observations and creative ideas that will inform the work of the Development and Implementation workpackage. These will be typed up and will be made pubicly available via our WIKI and our Blog. Despite the miserable weather we are experiencing at the moment I finished yesterday with quite a sunny disposition.
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