http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/ Details of the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006 Parallel Sessions en-GB 2006-04-24 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/resources/images/ukoln-logo/logo.gif http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/allinson/ Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey, UKOLN will give an overview of the current repository landscape, looking at the different types of repositories, their use within education and the range of issues relating to repositories, including cultural, social, legal, technical and policy considerations. Current JISC work in this area will be highlighted, focussing on how this work will contribute to raising quality standards in repository development, through interoperability and the use of open standards. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/bristow/ Rob Bristow, Information Services Manager, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol and Mark Lydon, i2a Consulting will look at Access Grid Node (AGN), an exciting area of development in communication within the academic, research and commercial worlds. Using open standards to transmit video and audio using IP Multicast networking, it is a type of video collaboration that allows a rich and immediate means of communicating with remote sites, while also being able to share presentations, data, complex visualizations and video. AGN is a technology that scales; from a single user node running with a Webcam on a laptop, up to a lecture theatre with multiple cameras and projectors. It also scales from one-to-one conversations to multi-site meetings, seminars and conferences. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/burden/ David Burden, Managing Director, DADENLIMITED and Marieke Guy, UKOLN will consider questions like: Can chatbots make sites more accessible or do they break fundamental usability rules? Do users like them, or find them irritating or even patronising? Are they the next best thing or a 5 minute wonder? Can they really benefit the education sector? Can a chatbot ever really learn? 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/kelly/ Brian Kelly, UKOLN and Lawrie Phipps, JISC will review the barriers which we may face when implementing a Web 2.0 strategy and will outline a model and strategies which can be be used in order to address such barriers. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/nicholson/ Debbie Nicholson, Web Support Officer, University of Essex will show how putting quality measures in place can prevent getting a brief for a Web design job that reads "not blue, a bit random, and not too Scottish". Don't laugh, this actually happened! This hands on session will get participants thinking about how they can introduce quality assurance procedures within the web design process. It will cover establishing a 'quality loop', creating measurable standards and will introduce ways to enable clients to be better informed about what they want from their new Web site. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/matschak/ Tim Matschak, Cass Business School, City University, will consider writing for the Web - is it so difficult? Which models for success should those involved in institutional Web management follow? This session looks at accessible language, using the expertise of professional writers from other media areas such as newspaper journalism. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/ramsden/ Andy Ramsden, Learning Technology Advisor, Learning Technology Support Service, University of Bristol and Paul Ayres, SOSIG Research Officer, ILRT will be looking at podcasts. The aim of this workshop is that by the end the participant will be able to answer the following five questions; 1) What is podcasting? 2) How do you create, distribute and subscribe to a podcast? 3) What is good practice in terms of designing and creating podcasts? 4) How might podcasts be effectively used in an educational context? 5) Where should people go for more information? 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/trueman/ Paul Trueman, Netskills, University of Newcastle will be facilitating this session. Web services technology provides the opportunity to integrate applications and business functionality in to existing Web enabled VLEs. A Web service exposes business functionality by both consuming and producing data in XML format. Future online learning environments may be fully developed and maintained using a web services infrastructure. Web services solutions as yet still need to reach their full potential; particularly in the academic sector. In this session Paul will demonstrate potential uses of web services to support e-Learning and present guidelines on how to consider making best use of this emerging technology. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/wilson-1/ In December 2005 the Web Development team at the University of Bath set up a departmental wiki where they could keep track of information. In this workshop Philip Wilson, University of Bath will explain the reasons for using a wiki, not just for education but for codifying knowledge and working practices in departments and how they can best be utilised so that it is used by everyone in the department, and how to stop it becoming an unmaintained silo of archaic data. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/cornelius/ Barry Cornelius, Computing Services, University of Oxford will explore how to make RSS work in your institution. Recently, the University of Oxford has risen to this challenge: it has delivered a devolved institutional newsfeed system. This workshop session will discuss how this system was produced and will demonstrate how easy it is to produce news items and get them displayed on a Web page or delivered through RSS. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/davidson/ Duncan Davidson, Information Manager, University of Abertay Dundee and Donna Wilkinson, Information Specialist, University of Abertay Dundeed will look at their University's development plans, the related projects - University Portal and Information Architecture, where we have been, current work and the road ahead. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/doyle/ Keith Doyle, University of Salford will facilitate this session. A small group of people are working towards setting up a peer group to share good practise and knowledge. In this session, there will be the opportunity for delegates working to develop University Intranets to share their thoughts on developments around intranets and portals. We will also discuss how the peer group could develop. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/mackintosh/ William Mackintosh, Web Manager, University of York and Damon Querry, Senior Web Development Officer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne will be looking at Search Technology within the University Environmen. The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has implemented a Google Search Appliance. The University of York is committed to the purchase of the Google Mini. The session will discuss the reasons for selecting these products and how they add value to an institution's Web site. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/pennock/ This session will be run by Michael Day, DCC, UKOLN, Maureen Pennock, DCC, UKOLN and Lizzie Richmond, University Archivist, University of Bath. Institutional Web sites have become an increasingly important tool for disseminating key institutional information to and between staff, students, researchers and the general public. They are widely recognised as key front-office mechanisms for the communication of important information, but the long-term survival of Web site resources and data with non-transient or enduring value is often overridden by the short-term benefits of on-the-fly Web site management. As a result, even institutions with Web site archiving policies can find themselves falling victim to the so-called digital dark ages and fail to preserve valuable information. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/stevenson/ Adrian Stevenson, Internet Services, The University of Manchester will give an introduction to the SMIL standard and show how it can be used to create rich multimedia presentations. We will explore some of the problems and issues that arise when creating SMIL presentations, such as quality and copyright issues, and we will look briefly at some of the alternative technologies for creating time based presentations, comparing these to SMIL. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/tonkin/ Emma Tonkin, UKOLN and Adam Hardy will consider that User testing is often considered to be prohibitively expensive, complicated and time-consuming; the good news is that at least two of these assumptions are wrong. This hands-on session demonstrates how to use scenario-based user testing to check out the usability of a small application. It concentrates on accessible and practical real-world techniques for user testing, analysing the results, and working out how to apply them - as quick fixes, long-term aims or feature requests. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/wilson-2/ Philip Wilson, University of Bath will ask how do people make use of the data you publish on the Web? If you publish a staff directory, how do people currently add contact details to their address books? Copy and paste has had its day, Microformats are a way of making the data you already publish not only useful, but re-usable and re-purposable for relatively little effort. This session considers how these data formats can help you solve specific data problems on your site. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/young/ Chris Young, Netskills, University of Newcastle and Paul Trueman, Netskills, University of Newcastle will be looking at accreditation systems. You may be new to a Web-role or you may be more experienced, with a set of useful skills. Either way, increasingly there is a need for recognised individual development and accreditation in order to progress in within your organisation and with your own career. 2006-06-15