APT STAIRS and the OSCELET community

The project demonstrator for the London International Development Centre (http://www.lidc.org.uk) involved the creation of a Google Docs spreadsheet to manage their membership directory. LIDC has developed a Blackboard Building Block, which uses the Google Docs Spreadsheet API to search for members with particular interests, presenting the results in Blackboard. This means that only members, who are all enroled into a Blackboard Organisation for LIDC, can access the database. All the documentation for the development is available on the OSCELOT website here: http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/lidcsearch/

Interview with Emerge

As the APT STAIRS project is nearing to an end, we are currently disseminating our findings to share our experience with others. Last week our Project Manager (Sarah Sherman) and myself (Project Officer) were interviewed by a member of the Emerge Community (Mitul Shukla) who works for Bedfordshire university in the Institute for Research in Applicable Computing department .
Mitul is responsible for researching and collecting data on the experience of projects within the Emerge Community. So from our hour interview on Elluminate we covered many aspects of our project from our original bid, our findings, our engagement with users, our choice of technologies i.e Google Docs and our evaluation plans. This information will be filed as a new case study to inform future Emerge and JISC projects, events and processes.