ELI Spring Focus Session - the main things I'm taking away

OK that's it for writing about the sessions (if in a slightly wrong order - particularly the project parlors...), the photo above shows where the event was held

So, the big ideas I'm taking away from the ELI Spring Focus Session are:

• The taster sessions were great, and are an idea we can adopt fr our own events. It means presenters repeating themselves in the space of a short time, but it does give people a taster, and allows them to make a qualified decision about if a session is for them, and also a bigger picture of what other sessions are happening even if they have chocen to attend others


• We are doing OK with things like games for learning, Second Life, virtual environments etc, but there is still plenty to do


• We should set up some kind of design competition in Second Life (or Sketchup etc, or using good old fashioned pens and paper) for getting our students involved in all the new builds/renovations that are happening


• I'm going to talk to whoever-it-is in LITS about Grid Computing, because it is something we should be doing, there must be hundreds of computers at SHU that sit idle for periods when they can be doing something useful, like rendering 3D videos etc