Some Really Useful Tools

Liam Earney as Casper, together with the web2rights team, has produced a really useful tool on copyright clearance, which can be found at: http://www.web2rights.org.uk/casper/ . There is also another free to use copyright toolkit that has just been released by the EduServ Foundation.
http://www.copyrighttoolkit.com/index.html

And Sheila McNeill from Strathclyde University is part of a team developing a webservice which will convert content into various different types of packages e.g. IMS CPs, moodle, Blackboard etc. There will be limited set of packaging "flavours" in the first release, but they hope that this will be built on. To do that they need some idea of the most popular packages people really need. There is more information (including contact info) @ http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Get_Involved_with_Transcoder.

Rolling out the Module

The Department of Geography decided (due to staffing issues, one of the lead tutors on the module has handed in his notice) to postpone the rolling out of the module until September 2010. This means that some of the (internally produced - new) course material will not be available yet, although there is still the committment to produce it. The research assistants are continuing to find external material and material within the organisation.

Module Specification through Quality Processes

The EPH module (GE6016 - Environment, Poverty and Health) was approved on 5th September by the Faculty of Social Science Board of Studies to form part of the Geography and Development Studies Programme. The module specification can be found on the module wiki (project documents page) http://ephrum.pbwiki.com/Project-Documents#