Picked up from the elearning mailing list – it looks like it might be an interesting day and a useful group to know about. It is being organised by the Learning and Teaching Institute at Chester:

The University of Chester in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire is pleased to announce the second meeting of the Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes SIG group, on 17th April 2008 at the University of Hertfordshire.

The day is designed to be as practical as possible (you can see the draft programme on our wiki (http://podcastingforpp.pbwiki.com/April%20event
invite key podcast08).

Please email DianeTaska (d.taska@chester.ac.uk) to book your place. There will be a maximum of 50 places, allocated on a ‘first come first served’
basis. There will be a maximum of 2 people from any 1 institution.

As this is a SIG group, and we are trying to build up a database of ‘good practice’ we would like everyone who attends the day to contribute an
‘artefact’: This could be
A sample podcast
A pdf/word document on ‘how to’
A poster on podcasting (that may have been produced for other events – let’s not re-invent the wheel)
The novices could produce a word document on ‘how they would like to use a podcast’.

http://www.chester.ac.uk/…d_teaching.html

Just a final comment. If you are interested in knowing more about our model, it is being published next month : Bent, Moira. Gannon-Leary, Pat. Webb, Jo. Information Literacy in a researcher’s learning life: the 7 ages of research New Review of Information Networking 13(2) 2007 (in press)

Here are the slides from our presentation:

PPT

Here are the group answers to questions from our workshop:
What is research?
* Finding stuff out
* Things you do to answer questions
* A framework/ accepted practice to answer questions
* A process of discovery
* It’s forward and backward facing
* It’s creation of new knowledge
* Something which attracts funding
* Collecting, analysing, disseminating.

What are researchers?
* Anyone who does research
* people wanting info in depth
* People looking for novelty
* People paid to do research
* Truth seekers
* Writers/ Disseminators
* Scholars
* Systematic enquirers

Who are your researchers?
* Teaching faculty
* Colleagues
* RAs
* Doctoral students
* Masters students
* Undergrads (some dissention here)
* Practitioners
* The public – for spec coll/ family history
* Research scientists in a research institute

What are your researchers’ learning needs?
* research methodology – how to do it
* Awareness of needing to know
* Updating skills for older/ experienced researchers
* issues around level and experience
* Effective use of sources, inc people
* Supervisors & librarians – skills assessment

Jo Webb and I ran a symposium on the last morning of LILAC (and were delighted to have over 50 people there even though it was the morning after the wonderful conference dinner in Liverpool Town Hall – where I found portraits of Sir John and Lady Bent – possible ancestors?)
We have used some of the data from our book on support for research to develop a model called the 7 ages of research and we wanted to explore with participants whether our model was relevant to their own situation and whether it is a useful model to help us develop information literacy for researchers. I promised that I would summarise the flipcharts from the symposium on the blog, so that’s what I’ll do for the next couple of entries.

The LWW gang at the LILAC dinner: Bob, Nancy, me, Gwyneth, Jane (Thanks to Jane for the photo)