Date 13-14 July 2006
Location Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester
Agenda
Thursday 13 July 2006
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12:30-13:30
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Registration & Lunch
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13:30-13:40
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Welcome
Maia Dimitrova (JISC)
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13:40-14:20
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User engagement and community involvement I: user engagement
Presentation and exercise
Chris Ramsden and Kerstin Junge (Tavistock Institute)
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14:20-14:30
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Tea & Coffee Break
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14:30-16:30
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Interactive project demos with tea & coffee break
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Projects to enter project name, title of demo and a short abstract
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16:30-16:40
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Tea & Coffee Break
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16:40-17:30
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VRE tools interoperability
Speaker (tbc)
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19:00
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Dinner
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Friday, 14 July 2006
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07:00-09:00
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Breakfast
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09:00-09:10
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Introduction to the day
Maia Dimitrova (JISC)
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09:10-10:10
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Meetings of breakout groups first formed at the January programme meeting
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10:10-10:30
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Tea & Coffee Break
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10:30-11:30
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Plenary session: feedback presentations by breakout groups
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11:30-11:40
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Tea & Coffee Break
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11:40-12:10
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e-Framework for Education and Research: overview and an update
Speaker (tbc)
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12:10-12:30
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Dissemination of project outputs
Maia Dimitrova (JISC)
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-14:30
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User engagement and community involvement II: community mobilisation clinics
John Kelleher, Chris Ramsden, Kari Hadjivassiliou, Kerstin Junge (Tavistock Institute)
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14:30-15:30
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Plenary reflection: community mobilisation
John Kelleher (Tavistock Institute)
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15:30
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Close
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Session descriptions
User engagement and community involvement part I: user engagement
This session will comprise a short presentation on the difficulties of effective user engagement and what possible solutions there might be. The presentation will be followed by group exercises.
Interactive project demos
Each project is requested to give an overview and a demo of their VRE solutions to delegates. Overviews should be in the form of a 10-minute presentation, followed by an interactive demo of the design and key features of the VRE solution being developed.
Meetings of breakout groups first formed at the January Programme meeting
This session will provide opportunities for the small groups formed at the January Programme meeting to continue their discussions and prepare a presentation on progress for the Programme community in the subsequent feedback session. The four areas discussed were:
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Technical issues: JSR168, Firewalls, Access Grid, Legacy Systems into Portal
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User involvement issues
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Collaborative document writing area
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Generic issues: research workflow, metadata modelling, embedding new VRE technologies
e-Framework for Education and Research: overview and an update
This session will provide an overview and an updated of the latest developments with the e-Framework for Education and Research.
Dissemination of project outputs
This short session will focus on key events and strategies for disseminating project outputs.
User engagement and community involvement part 2: community mobilisation clinics
Four ‘clinics’ will be run around issues of community mobilisation:
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Marketing to your putative users
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Mobilising your community of peers
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Securing institutional commitment
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Developing testbeds, pilots and agile communities
The clinics will be an opportunity for delegates to raise specific issues they are facing when engaging with the wider community of users and to start developing ideas of how these can be addressed. The clinics will be followed by a reflective plenary session.
Registration
All booking enquiries should be made to Melissa Saiunders: m.saunders@jisc.ac.uk
Manchester Conference Centre
Weston
Building
, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB