Dr Harriet Dismore
December marked not only the end of 2010 but also the end of Harriet’s time with us here in Plymouth. She is moving on to a new role lecturing at Brunel and the rest of the team thank her for all her hard work and wish her all the best for the future. She has been heavily involved with most of the project and we hope to keep her involved wherever possible.
The Pineapple and Telstar projects ran an APEL Assembly at JISC event in Oxford yesterday. It was a good chance to have indepth discussions about some of the more knotty issues, such as group APEL claims, and to get colleagues’ views about some of the issues we have encountered.
We were very pleased to see that Pineapple products came first in the lunchtime Trade Fair. Many thanks to colleagues who voted for us and we hope that you find your products useful. Please check back for final versions of everything when the project is nearer to completion.
The Pineapple piloting phase is now well underway.They have gone SO well that we are considering it a Pineapple smoothie!
Thanks to all those who have given us such useful feedback. Rob the Builder is already preparing those changes - which we are sure will make the next version even juicier.
Happy Birthday Rob!
Pineapple attended the JISC Joint Information Forum event at Egham this week. This was the first JIF I have attended and I found it a really useful event from a practical project management perspective. We were delighted to get the award for best poster.
Well after many months of work we have an alpha version of the Pineapple Core ready. We have a bit more work to do on it before we look to trial it in September.
I have put together 3 short videos showing the administration, process management/design and the user end of the system. There are still bugs and things to work on but we feel the system is at a suitable level of development to be able to demonstrate it.
It was lights, camera, action this morning as the Pineapple crew got filming for some talking heads. It took us under an hour – now that’s what I call a wrap!
Invited to speak at the annual UPC Arts Subject Forum Event at Dartington Hall. Lovely location and brilliant opportunity to present Pineapple progress. Lots of questions, lots of interest and a number of willing volunteers to help us in September.
As you can see below, Pineapple has a presence at the GEES Subject Centre GEES Learning 
and Teaching to 2020 conference taking place this week.
Anne and I have just returned from attending a national APEL event at York St John. Presentations such as one on the strategic benefits of APEL in difficult times and group discussions on innovative practices were very useful. One issue is still recurring and that is the terminology and our understanding of it. Overall, lots of good contacts were made and York was lovely!
Yesterday the University held a showcase of TEL activities that are going on at the institution. As part of an exhibition of JISC funded projects at Plymouth, the Pineapple Project disseminated information and talked to lots of delegates. The team were wearing a variety of hats and also took the opportunity to promote the Uplace Repository project and the Uspace Web 2.0 project. A busy but enjoyable day with great cream cakes.
