Looking for a seaside location for the bank holiday weekend?

Q Projects
Tyne Metropolitan College

Take this quick Powerpoint quiz, to see if you know where all the UK beach locations are - all in time for the bank holiday weekend!

http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14801

Making the Creative Process Visible

Making the Creative Process Visible
Natasha Mayo, University Wales Institute (UWIC)

Making the Creative Process Visible, brings together a set of five short films documenting the development of ideas in the work of a cross-section of students from the BA and MA ceramic programs in UWIC. The films show the students negotiation of thought, and seeks to illustrate tendencies and patterns in the ways ideas are developed. Within an educational context, the identification of these forms of development can provide a toolbox of possibilities to be altered or rejected at any stage in the development to generate and keep ideas mobile.

This resource achieved third place in the Jorum Learning and Teaching Competition 2010.


http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2028

Light up your life. How light can create theatrical effects.

Coloured Lighting Effects
M. Murray, L. Jones

Light up your life with this great interactive learning object. The resource is aimed at students wishing to study the dynamics of how lighting effects can transform the way we look at a scene. Particular attention is paid to exploring how light can create theatrical effects, or to depict the time of day or year. The use of lighting gels is the main focus, and students can use the resource to experiment with the effects of different combinations of gels. Health and safety issues are also considered. An accompanying assessment test consolidates what students have learned, and a number of additional tools are available to enhance their experience of the resource. These include a magnifying glass, notepad, calculator and colour changer.

http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14177

Jorum to move to Open Access

The Jorum team are pleased to announce that due to a continuation of funding from JISC, the service in development will continue to move forward over the next three years. Jorum has taken on board feedback from its community and in the next phase of its development will be moving towards providing open educational resources.

The Jorum team will use the website to diseminate further information on developments and progress, as well as the jorum-update list. We will be contacting existing contributors and users with further details on this exciting opportunity to help them participate in the wider sharing of their learning and teaching resources.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/04/jorumopen.aspx

Recently Contributed Resources

A number of excellent resources have been uploaded to Jorum recently, here are two examples of major contributions:

Legal resources for social care - ten legal resources produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have been uploaded by Southampton University. The resources offer a highly interactive way of engaging with the subject, including an introduction to law, courtroom skills and law for social workers.

The "North West Content Exchange" initiative is funded directly by 3 local skills councils and managed by St Helens College. Their remit is to encourage North West colleges to share teaching and learning resources online via Jorum. A range of resources have been contributed to date including mathematics, electronics and plumbing objects.

Jorum Training and Outreach Events

Following the launch of Jorum User (institutions can sign up at the JISC Collections Site) a Training and Outreach Tour has been organised.

Subscribe to the JORUM-UPDATE Mailing List to keep up to date with such events, as well as news, announcements and new resources.

Jorum User Service - 47 Sign-up

Its now 3 weeks since the launch of the Jorum User Service, and 47 institutions have signed up at the JISC Collections Site! These Further and Higher Education institutions can now access the resources.

Strong Start For Jorum User Service

In the two weeks since the launch of the Jorum User Service, 34 institutions have signed up at the JISC Collections Site. These UK Further and Higher Education institutions will be among the first to access the resources.

Jorum Website Updated

The Jorum website has now been updated and includes:

1. Information about the Jorum User Service


2. A full list of events that the Jorum team are involved in


3. Useful links for Users and Contributors


4. Featured Contributors


5. Details of Top Resources based on our peer review process


6. Metadata information and toolkit links for contributors


7. Reports written for JISC by the Jorum team


8. New factsheets and training materials