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The last couple of weeks have seen a significant increase in the outputs from the Isthmus project with work falling into the following broad categories:

Initial research
A mini-literature review was carried out and some research questions agreed which would serve as a backbone/reference point for developing the questionnaire.

Questionnaire
This is the first part of the student-centred research of the project, so a significant amount of work has been put into drafting and polishing the questionnaire to try to ensure that we get useful research data from it. This work has overlapped with the questionnaire design for the Thema project, so we have been able to consider, compare and contrast different approaches as part of the process. It also draws on the research carried out as part of the Spire project: Some real data on Web 2.0 use

Technological research
We have been looking at several different pieces of technology:

• The new Netvibes UWA (Universal Widget A?) which allows people to create widgets that can be delivered through any homepage, website, desktop, etc.
• The RSS feed functionality in Moodle, a posting about which can be found here: Reuse or Recreate
• We’ve also spent some time looking into Second Life and Flickr.

This entry was posted by Deborah Goodbody on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am and is filed under Isthmus, JISC, PLE, research, survey, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.