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Introduction Welcome to the latest edition of Paddling Around as we try to summarise a busy few weeks at our Pebble HQs and also look forward to the inaugural PebblePad Conference or as it is now termed the PebbleBash 2010. It is easy for us in our day-to-day work to forget to stay in touch with the Paddlers Community and keep you all informed with the latest developments, ideas and stories we hear about on a daily basis.
Conference Countdown Can you believe that in a little over three weeks the PebblePad community will be sharing their ideas and experiences at the conference? I guess those that are coming from afar have already started packing and getting their paperwork sorted, whilst here in the UK we’re finalising plans to try and make the event as informative and engaging as possible – we’ve even put a request in for some sunshine - fingers crossed hey! The programme has now been made available online http://www.
Practitioner Survey Some of you may be aware that we have recently conducted a PebblePad Institution Survey. We have had an excellent response and we are currently collating the results into a preliminary report, to be presented at the conference. Now it is the turn of the practitioners! If you are using PebblePad with groups of students, staff, or professional body members, we would like to invite you to complete the PebblePad Practitioner Survey.
REfLECT iPhone App & Moodle Block Over the last couple of weeks Pebble Learning have been running some workshops around the UK helping practitioners understand a bit more about REfLECT, which is a customised version of PebblePad used by members of the Institute for Learning. These workshops were received well by the delegates but the highlight of all these events has to be the news about REfLECTs iPhone app and Moodle Block! Like the PebblePad iPhone app the iREfLECT iPhone Application is now available for download from the iTunes store.
New Customers We are delighted to welcome the University of Edinburgh and Thames Valley University as enterprise customers. Both institutions ran year long pilots with PebblePad to prove the suitability of the system and both are planning on expanding use in the coming academic year. We also welcome a new Professional Body to the community, the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists, who will be using PebblePad to help develop a culture of life long learning and in turn raise the profession’s profile and support the aspirations of colleagues both within the public and private health sectors.
Interoperability Projects For the past few months the Pebble developers have been working to further extend the use of the LEAP2A http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/PIOP_PebblePad eportfolio standard within PebblePad to increase its relevance and use within the academic community. We have had two projects funded by JISC which are outlined below: The first project, known as ANT (Atomised Networked Transfer), is a partnership of the CIePD (Centre for International e-Portfolio Development), based at Nottingham University, and Pebble Learning and seeks to extend the PebblePad export functionality to enable ‘atoms’ of ePortfolio data to be pulled through on request, and implemented within the SAMSON Portal http://www.
Australian User Group Event Plans are now in place for the next Australian PebblePad User Group event. Flinders University have kindly agreed to host our next activity which will be held on Thursday, 22 July. This will be a half-day face-to-face meeting for those who can attend in person and will include a video/phone link-up for those who wish to attend remotely.
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