…they were sighted, to be exact, at the RSC Scotland North & East Winter Fayre which took place at the beautiful and historic National e-Science Centre in the capital on the 15th of December. The event was designed to showcase the work of JISC Advance and the JISC Service companies and to celebrate the progress that has been made in the first decade of the 21st century in applying technology to teaching and learning.
The theme for the Fayre was ‘where were we, where are we, and where might we be in the future’. The first keynote from John Burt, Principal of Angus College, staff member Mina Welsh and Angus student Iain Scott, who presented a very positive picture of how a typical FE College in Scotland is engaging with technology to the benefit of its students and the wider community.
Keynotes were accompanied by a series of presentations and workshops by RSC staff and outside speakers. The silver pennies in the dumpling here were sessions on Google Wave, podcasting, e-books, games in online assessment and Access Apps. And, as if the bird wasn’t well enough stuffed by then, JISC Services such as JISC Legal, Mail, infoNet, Digital Media, Netskills, CETIS and JANET showcased their finest in the conference ‘marketplace’. There was even time for running a competition through the day, the star prize of a new Sony e-Book reader going to Colin Maxwell of Carnegie College.
