18th August 2009 - Basic Networking, Teachers Building, Glasgow

The main objective of this course is to provide delegates with a basic understanding of computer network technologies and concepts. It will begin with an overview of different network types and how these fit together within JANET. It then moves on to consider different network models and how they can be applied. The course will then look at some of the physical aspects of networks and the protocols that make it all work. Finally after a review of basic network applications, delegates will be lead through a very practical review of some of the key issues associated with campus networking. Throughout the course, delegates are given practical exercises and are shown demonstrations.

19th August 2009 - Basic Router Configuration, Teachers Building, Glasgow

Routers play a major role in any network and their effective configuration is vital in ensuring they run efficiently. The objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the configuration of network devices. Starting with the basics, this course will provide an overview of network devices and components. Delegates will have an opportunity to get hands-on experience in logging on to equipment and using configuration files. The course will look at the configuration of DHCP, NAT and PAT. Delegates will then work through some solutions to network security issues. The day will end with an opportunity to carry out further configurations on a router.

24th August 2009 - Implementing Green IT, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

On the programme:

• How to minimise power consumption through water cooling, powerdown, thin client and virtualisation.
• How to understand your energy and carbon needs and then to reduce them

Confirmed speakers from City College, Norwich; Napier University, Edinburgh; Angus College, Arbroath, and the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges.

17th September 2009 - e-books for FE Workshop: Making the most of your digital library

The e-books for FE Project will make 2983 e-books freely available to Further Education colleges in the UK for five years. The project gives FE colleges the opportunity to provide their students with searchable, portable and highly relevant course materials.

To find out more about the e-books project and how to access the titles, please come along to this half day workshop hosted by the JISC Regional Support Centres in Scotland.

25th September 2009 - eAssessment Scotland: Strategies across Sectors - Dundee

eAssessment Scotland is the first annual Scottish eAssessment conference and is a chance for staff from across the sectors to share their insights as to how eAssessment is being used to improve the student experience. The theme for this year's conference is 'Strategies across Sectors'.

For more information visit the conference website.

5th and 6th October 2009 - Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts

This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to record and produce recordings of spoken word audio, with specific emphasis being placed upon the recording of lectures, seminars and events. You will learn the basic concepts of recording technologies and through practical exercises you will learn how to confidently apply these to practical situations. The workshop will also introduce you to ideas for delivering new media such as podcasting, and suggest methods for managing your digital recordings.

This workshop is being delivered by JISC Digital Media (formely TASI) who help UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media.

20th October 2009 - RSCtv: How does Podcasting Work? The secrets of RSS revealed

This workshop will provide an insight into how Public On Demand broadcasting or podcasts really work, how to create your own syndication and publish your podcast on the popular iTunes Store.
There will be some technical aspects to this workshop but you certainly don't have to be a tech head to follow what's going on.

27th October 2009 - Virtual Worlds: Second Life Induction Event

This workshop will guide you through the basic skills that you need to start engaging with the virtual world - Second Life. During the course of the session you will learn how to communicate, interact and explore this exciting new environment. You will also start to get a better understanding of how this environment works and ways in which you could use it in your teaching. Taking part in a range of activities you will gain confidence and feel ready to explore more of Second Life.

30th October 2009 - Virtualisation: Better, Cheaper, Greener? - Edinburgh Napier University

This free event forms part of a Scottish Funding Council-supported ICT Carbon and Energy Management Programme project which is being managed by EAUC Scotland. The project has identified virtualisation as a key area of interest for its institutional partners, which include Edinburgh Napier University.

Edinburgh Napier has already made great progress in virtualising a significant number of servers, and is now both extending this, and introducing server powerdown to gain the full energy and environmental benefits from its use. Scott Walkingshaw, Lead IT Developer (Servers), David Pentland, Lead IT Developer (Desktop), and colleagues, will share their experiences/challenges and future plans in this area at an interactive workshop, which will also have contributions from other universities and colleges.

3rd November 2009 - JANET - Introduction to the UK federation

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of what's required of organisations wishing to join the UK Access Management Federation. The course will include suggested ways of deploying federated access management and the likely challenges of doing so.

3rd November 2009 - RSCtv: Using Voting Systems for learning and teaching

This session will look at the various types of Electronic Voting Systems on the market and how they can be used to make your lessons more fun, but still have significant academic value. It will focus on creating stand-alone tests, adding interaction to presentations, and how they can be used to analyse student understanding.

4th November 2009 - JANET - Implementing a Shibboleth 2 Identity Provider

The UK federation provide a standardised way of exchanging authentication and authorisation requests in a consistent, secure and privacy preserving manner. Organisations who have members who wish to access such resources may wish to run their own Shibboleth Identity Provider to enable this.

This course will provide a number of discussions and hands-on labs for delegates to work through in individually and in a small group, centred around the installation and configuration of a Shibboleth 2 Identity Provider; this will then be tested against a reference Shibboleth 2 Service Provider. The course includes some discussion of migration from an existing Shibboleth 1.3 installation.

5th November 2009 - JANET - Implementing a Shibboleth 2 Service Provider

This course will centre around the installation and configuration of a Shibboleth 2 Service Provider and will provide guidance and practical experience of integrating this with a web application's access control mechanisms. This installation will then be tested against a reference Shibboleth 2 Identity Provider. The course includes some discussion of migration from an existing Shibboleth 1.3 installation.

17th November 2009 - RSCtv: Mobile Technologies for learning and teaching

Despite the ubiquitous nature of mobile phones, current activities around the use of mobile technologies can still be considered innovative. This RSCtv session will outline advantages to be gained, the possibilities for the application of mobile technologies for Learning & Teaching and will also highlight some of the issues that need consideration by learning institutions.

17th November 2009 - CILIPs - Equality and Diversity: promoting good practice in library work

Many colleges have invested significantly in new technologies. This may mean that you have an Electronic Voting System within your institution. This workshop will explore how these systems can be used with students to provide a fun, but very useful method of assessment. It will also cover how to design effective Objective Test questions, and use the systems to monitor student progress.Best practice suggests that responsibility for equality and diversity should be strategically embedded across organisations, linked to business objectives and mainstreamed as part of everyday management. Our event will focus on giving heads up on the new Equalities legislation, raising awareness and encouraging good practice in libraries. CILIP's Ayub Khan will also present an introduction to the new Encompass positive action scheme. The conference will be accompanied by a supplier exhibition and a number of poster sessions. A CILIPS Certificate of attendance is available to members attending this course.

24th November 2009 - JANET - Computers, Privacy and the Law

The main aim of the course is to enabling organisations and staff to work lawfully, protect user privacy and run a professional system/network/service. This course provides an introduction to the privacy and legal issues most likely to arise where staff in educational organisations have elevated access permissions for shared networks, computers and applications, and the need for organisations to have, and staff to follow, policies and processes that take account of these.

This course will benefit staff (and their managers) whose jobs require them to have privileged access to shared networks, computers and applications: for example system and network administrators and those responsible for the administration or content of databases.

25th November 2009 - Dolphin computer Access: Access and Alternative Formats

For those who have responsibility for creating content which will be read by staff, the general public, prospective students or students currently attending courses at your institution. This free half day event raise awareness of technology solutions to help ensure disability duty by providing information in alternative formats. Dolphin Computer Access offer a range of altformat software solutions, dedicated to making text accessible for staff and students with visual impairments, English as a Second Language dyslexia, and other specific learning disabilities.

1st December 2009 - RSCtv: Using Social Bookmarking for learning and teaching

Bookmarking favourite internet sites is common practice. Social Bookmarking adds another dimension to this and describes the practice of saving bookmarks, adding keywords and sharing them with others through a web site. Social Bookmarking provides new ways and mechanisms for organising information and are of particular use when collecting a set of resources that can be shared with others. Login to RSCtv to find out how this can be applied effectively to Learning & Teaching.

3rd December 2009 - Sharing vision, planning practice: the 4th SLIC FE Conference for library and information professionals

Jointly organised by the two Scottish RSCs and Scotland's Colleges, the SLIC conference for FE library and information professionals, chaired by Janis Carson, Vice Principal at Glasgow Metropolitan College has a focus on quality services and resources and features input from HMIe on the new quality framework. Keynote speaker, Ollie Bray will discuss using technology to support implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence. Thanks to sponsorship, free delegate places are offered to colleges and the event will be of interest to library and quality managers in particular.

8th December 2009 - Managing Digital Resources

The aim of this workshop is to introduce the concept of a digital repository and to examine the benefits and issues associated with using a digital repository. The workshop will also provide hands-on experience of using the intraLibrary digital repository (the provider of the repository for Scotland's Colleges and the Jorum digital repository).

10th December 2009 - Essential Photoshop

This course will get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop. You will learn key concepts and skills to enable you to understand and start using this exciting application with confidence. This workshop is being delivered by JISC Digital Media (formely TASI) who help UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media.

7th January 2010 - JANET - Introduction to DNS

Every time someone uses JANET or the commercial Internet they make use of DNS. DNS handles the mapping between the users requests and internet addresses. The main objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of DNS principles and theory. Some of the key technical implementations will be reviewed in the context of a Windows 2003 DNS interface but the priority of the course is to provide delegates with a sound background in DNS principles.

7th January 2010 - JANET Roaming Fundamentals

This course provides delegates with an understanding of how JANET Roaming operates at both basic technical and support level. This includes an overview of how to configure user equipment and solve some of the issues those users might face. The course also covers the configuration of wireless and wired clients for use on the JANET Roaming Service (eduroam), details of the logfile examination and methods of fault finding and reporting.

19th or 20th January 2010 - Public Procurement: threat or opportunity?

The increased emphasis on regulation and more rigorous procurement procedures in public bodies means that decisions should become rational and objective in terms of how tender exercises are managed. However, procurement can still be a very emotional process especially when you are unsuccessful. SCMG will be running Public Procurement workshops in Glasgow and Edinburgh. If you need basic awareness training or reassurance that your processes and procedures are compliant or are a supplier trying to win public sector business then this is a must attend workshop.

28th January 2010 - Widgit Software Solutions for Inclusion

Widgit have pioneered the use of symbols in learning and communication for over 25 years and our software is used worldwide to create symbol-supported materials in print, onscreen and online. Come along to this free event and explore the possibilities and potential benefits of incorporating symbol based communication into information and signage to promote an inclusive approach to universal design. Symbol based information can support readers with language and literacy issues as well as those with more complex needs.This event will be of interest to those with responsibility for signage, accessible information, websites and other discrete services that provide information such as teaching staff, libraries, marketing, facilities etc.

4th February 2010 - JISC Digital Media Workshop - Building a Departmental Image Collection

This course will provide you with a hands-on experience of creating, managing and delivering a departmental image collection. You will acquire the foundation knowledge required to make well informed decisions about building an image library. You will also have the opportunity to discuss and share information with people from the HE/FE/Cultural sector facing similar issues in order to help you develop practical solutions. This workshop is being delivered by JISC Digital Media (formely TASI) who help UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media.

9th February 2010 - RSCtv: ETNA 2009 - An overview of the results

The 2009 ETNA Report was launched at the JISC RSC Winter Fayre in December and provides the very latest analysis on skills and attitudes toward ICT by staff in Scotland's colleges. In this session Hugh Dailly from the RSC Scotland North & East and the report's author will present an overview of the ETNA findings.

23rd February 2010 - An Overview of Free Resources to help you Embed Inclusion when using Technology

Margaret McKay eAdvisor for Inclusion at the Regional Support Centre Scotland South & West will deliver her pick of the pops and will provide you with an up to date overview of resources to help you to embed inclusion when using technology.

3rd March 2010 - JISC Legal webcast - Safeguarding: Meeting Your e-Safety Duties

JISC Legal will assist institutions meet their legal duties and inspection needs in relation to safeguarding and e-security. The webcast will focus on relevant statutory duties, areas of liability for institutions, tips on writing an e-safety policy and guidance on appropriate incident response.

4th March 2010 - Edina: Multimedia Services Training

This course covers three EDINA services: Film & Sound Online, Education Image Gallery and NewsFilm Online. These services contain images, film, audio tracks and news footage, which are copyright cleared for use in education and can be downloaded and used by staff and learners.

The course will be of relevance to staff involved in curriculum support and delivery and, in particular, teaching staff and LRC/library staff who have an interest in using and promoting the use of e-resources.

Both Film & Sound Online and NewsFilm Online are FREE to subscribing UK FE and HE institutions until the end of their respective licence periods.

4th March 2010 - JANET Roaming Fundamentals

JANET Roaming provides eduroam in the UK and enables network logon anywhere using own username and password regardless of location without the need for guest account set up. The service is available at participating organisations over wi-fi and (depending on the site) at dedicated wired ethernet and/or designated guest workstations.

This course provides delegates with an understanding of how JANET Roaming operates at both basic technical and support level. This includes an overview of how to configure user equipment and solve some of the issues those users might face. The course also covers the configuration of wireless and wired clients for use on the JANET Roaming Service (eduroam), details of the logfile examination and methods of fault finding and reporting.

9th March 2010 - RSCtv: - Five Top Copyright Law Tips for Colleges and Universities

Jason Miles-Campbell from JISC Legal will present this session.
This RSCtv session gives practical tips on promoting confident and efficient copyright practice in colleges and universities. When it comes to the development of e-learning materials, there's no better head start than using what's already been created. However, this must be done with due regard to the creator's rights. Here, I'll present five easy to implement top tips for getting the copyright word used positively around your institution. Break away from tutors paraphrasing other people's text to create materials. Banish the hiding of materials where the author isn't sure whether they could include other people's photos, videos and audio recordings. Before long, all your staff can be using other people's stuff confidently and compliantly online!

9th March 2010 - Introduction to JANET

JANET plays an important role in supporting teaching, learning, administration and research. By connecting in one form or another all the educational sectors in the UK, JANET enables individuals, disciplines and projects to communicate, share information and access and national and international resources. The aim of this course is to improve delegates understanding of the network and associated services with a view to enabling them, and their respective organisations, to make effective use of their JANET connection. The focus of the course is the development of participants understanding of the network rather than providing technical detail.

17th March 2010 - JISC InfoNet: Change Management

Change is endemic in the Education Sector, yet all too often change brings with it potential for resistance, compromise and/or failure to embed new ways of working. How should the change process be managed? How can staff be engaged and supported during the transition period? What different strategies can be employed to help smooth the process?

Change Management is a one-day workshop delivered by the Advisory Service, JISC infoNet. Participants will gain an understanding of key theories behind the management of change, consider a structured framework for managing change and be introduced to a range of practical tools that can be adapted to meet different organisational needs.

25th March 2010 - RSC Seminar Series: Copyright in the Digital Age

JISC RSC Scotland South & West are hosting a seminar about Copyright in the Digital Age. We will be joined by Jason Miles-Campbell and Jackie Milne from JISC Legal, and Gursharn Sangha from The Copyright Licensing Agency.

Copyright has an impact across FE & HE institutions and this half day seminar will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in copyright issues or with a strategic role to play in your institution.
Programme
JISC Legal Presentation: Copyright Introduction
JISC Legal Presentation: Ten Top Tips

13th April 2010 - JANET - Firewalls: Planning and Implementation

Early at the inception of the Internet, attacks started to occur with an increased frequency. This lead to the development of tools to prevent unwanted communications according to a defined security policy. Firewalls now play a key part of any modern day network infrastructure and the concept has extended from a System Administration term into everyday vocabulary. The aim of this course is to provide participants with practical experiences of implementing firewall systems using various platforms, knowledge of the best places to implement firewalls and to reinforce the technical knowledge required to manage firewalls.
Further Details

14th April 2010 - JANET - Virtualisation Fundamentals

This course introduces the topic of virtualisation, focusing on the successful implementation of the technology on campus networks with its impact on infrastructure and security. Virtualisation technology has its roots in the mainframe technology of the mid 1960s but recently has seen resurgence. Allowing multiple instances of an Operating System to share the same hardware with more granular control of machine configuration and networking has huge benefits.

The ability to run multiple Operating Systems on the same hardware has cost benefits, addresses the problem of underutilised server hardware, can assist with business continuity as well as supporting the increasing green agenda.
Further Details

20th April 2010 - RSCtv: JISC TechDis Toolbar

Many assistive technologies allow users to surf web pages and collaborate online with personalised support, but what happens when a user is not on their own computer? Most browsers offer ways to change the look and feel of websites whether through colour or text changes and the use of add-ons such as text to speech but these only work within a particular browser and when there is access to change settings or download add-ins. It was felt that it would be useful to have a tool bar that would work with all browsers and with the majority of accessible websites. The tool needed to offer 'just-in time' support wherever and whenever a student needed it. It could be for one page as a bookmark, or as an installation for use on many pages or as code for the web developer who could add the link in his web page - the JISC TechDis toolbar can be used in all these ways.

The JISC TechDis toolbar allows for text resizing, colour changes and text to speech. It can also be used with forms to check spelling and meanings of words. There is a nifty tool for grabbing a web page's information such as the author, date and URL which may be handy when capturing sites for referencing and many other ideas have come up in discussion with those testing the toolbar.

4th May 2010 - RSCtv: - JANET Update

This session will be delivered by Frances Neilson from JANET. This presentation will provide an update on current and new JANET services. In particular, we will cover the JANET Server Certificate Service and look at new developments within JVCS, including JVCS Desktop and the newly reprocured web-filtering service.

14th May 2010 - JISC InfoNet: Project Management

Are you involved in running a project? If you are preparing for a quality review, restructuring, refurbishing, planning a Personal Development Programme or selecting and implementing information systems, the answer is 'Yes'. These and many other activities we undertake as part of daily work can be handled more easily and effectively using a project framework.

Project Management for the Education Sector is a one-day workshop offered by the Regional Support Centre of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and delivered by JISC infoNet, the Centre of Expertise in the Planning and Implementation of Information Systems. JISC infoNet has developed a project methodology specifically tailored to the needs of the education sector which can be adapted for any size of project.

3rd June 2010 - Best of the West 2010 Conference

The RSC Scotland South & West theme for this academic year is the "Best of the West 2010" and is aimed at showcasing and sharing innovative practice around the region, highlighting the very best of local initiatives using technology to support learning and teaching.

Our initiative will culminate in a "Best of the West 2010" event on Thursday June 3rd, 2010 at the Continuing Professional Development Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University. This full day event is not to be missed, so be sure to make a note in your diary now! Along with an interesting and inspiring programme of Scottish keynote speakers, there will be an opportunity to hear first hand about what is currently the Best of the West in Scottish tertiary education. Visit our conference website to find out more.

10th June 2010 - Bank on Success: e-Assessment Project

The JISC RSC would like to offer staff in our supported institutions the opportunity to participate in e-Assessment training whilst creating assessments for use with their students.

The project is aimed at curriculum staff who will agree to produce two sets of 10 question assessments in return for a one day training session provided by the JISC RSC. The assessments produced will be made available on the RSC Learning Platform for use throughout the sector and will also be available for download to be used in Moodle and Blackboard.

15th June 2010 - Creating Accessible Learning Objects using Xerte

The Xerte Online Toolkit is an Open Source content creating tool. It allows staff to create rich, interactive, engaging resources with high levels of accessibility. The RSC are offering FREE training on the use of this software in exchange for a learning object created using Xerte.

17th June 2010 - CALL Scotland ICT and Inclusion roadshow

CALL Scotland has been organising the free annual ICT and Inclusion roadshow since 2001. Now in collaboration with the Regional Support Centre Scotland South & West, this year's ICT and Inclusion event takes place on 17th June 2010 The Bruce Hotel, East Kilbride This ICT and Inclusion event will provide people with an opportunity to see and compare the latest software and technology to support students with additional support needs from most of the leading UK companies.

Assistive Technology Suppliers will describe their key products in timetabled sessions and there will also be short presentations by staff from CALL Scotland and the RSC. In addition, there will be a series of short seminars presented by local teachers from schools and FE colleges, therapists and other invited speakers on the use of different software and technology for students with additional support needs. These seminars are always popular.

For more information go to the ICT and Inclusion website.