After the productive VLE training event today, I've set up this blog to support and promote the use of Minerva at Bath Spa University. Hopefully, it will be used by BSU staff who are members of the Blackboard support groups, or conducting VLE research projects, to keep BSU staff and students informed of new developments, hints and tips, as well as availability of training events, etc.
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Good work, Richard! Probably a better choice than 'here comes the Manerva' in the long run. Were you tempted by 'Howl of Minerva' at all......?
By the way - can you enable the rss feed?
I'll do that now - but now you mention 'Howl of Minerva', I'm sorely tempted!
And of course, it's significant to note that as soon as we want to have an open discussion (i.e. this very blog!) we immediately need to go to Web 2.0 tools - because presumably, and understandably, none of us wanted to go through the rigmarole of setting up user accounts for a Bb discussion board.
The status of Minerva as a 'closed' system (login-based and impossible to link to) always interests me - and I think this is why students often find it unappealing. So perhaps a combination of Web 2.0 and Minerva might give us all the tools we need. Good to see that module-based blogging is implicitly sanctioned by the University; http://it-help.bathspa.ac.uk/onepage_blogs.html
One thing I ran out of time to demo last week was our dept blog, which also has links to some of our module-based blogs;
http://bathspamusic.edublogs.org/
Joe
Good point Joe - this was James' quip, I think, last week when we cam up with this blog. I'll add your MPA link to the the page, if that's OK - it's well beyond anything we're doing here, of course, but great as a glimpse of what you CAN do... I'll be looking into possible ways of making Minerva 'open up' a bit over this coming year, as part of the trial of the Campus Pack blog, wiki & podcast tools. More on that very soon. Cheers. Richard
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