Conferences!

The HP Higher Education Technology for Teaching conferences are really valuable networking opportunities, where educators from all over the world who have received HP HE grants get the opportunity to meet up and exchange experiences and ideas. Liz went to the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) conference in London in October 2007, and Liz and Deborah went to the Worldwide conference in San Diego in February 2008. No prizes for guessing at which conference these pictures were taken! We really enjoyed meeting colleagues from such a wide range of universitites and picked up some very valuable hints and tips.

The presentations from users of tools such as Camtasia and One Note were also really thought-provoking, and we have now become real fans of the potential of One Note used on the tablets (the picture above shows how "snipped" pictures of web pages can be annotated using the pen on the tablet, as an example). The combination of the organisation features of One Note and the inking interface of the tablets works really well. If anyone in UWE is interested in these products, get in touch with us in e-learning, as UWE already has licences for One Note as part of Office 2007, and we have details of the education discounts for Camtasia.