{"id":475,"date":"2010-06-18T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:22:15","slug":"oxtalent-awards-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/06\/18\/oxtalent-awards-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"OxTALENT Awards 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening some of the TALL team attended the University&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ltg\/events\/oxtalent2010\/\">OxTALENT<\/a> awards ceremony and would like to convey our congratulations to Melissa Highton and her team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ltg\/\">Learning Technologies Group<\/a>, who organised the event, and to all the winners of this year&#8217;s awards.  <\/p>\n<p>The OxTALENT awards are an annual competition celebrating the innovative use of IT in teaching and learning by academic staff and students at the University of Oxford.  This year&#8217;s categories included:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Use of the University&#8217;s VLE to support a course or programme of study<br \/>\n2.  Academic podcasting<br \/>\n3.  Student podcasting<br \/>\n4.  Student projects<br \/>\n5.  Research project posters<br \/>\n6.  Digital images<br \/>\n7.  Use of technology in learning spaces <\/p>\n<p>The awards opened with a welcome from Dr Stuart Lee, Director of the University&#8217;s Computing Services, and a fascinating presentation by Dr Chris Lintott on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a> project, which is using the power of the public and the web to categorise hundreds of thousands of digital images drawn from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope archive. <\/p>\n<p>It was also great to see the showcase of interesting projects taking place around the University including examples of innovative use of the VLE in both the sciences and humanities; a new media player, Belooga Media, which won the student project category; a classroom based voting system, which won the technology in learning spaces category; and not forgetting the smiling frog that won the digital image award!  <\/p>\n<p>The final award to be presented was the academic podcasting award, which was won by Dr Emma Smith for her very popular &#8220;Not Shakespeare&#8221; podcating series (which is available from the University of Oxford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.ox.ac.uk\/\">iTunes U site<\/a>).  Emma has also recently worked with the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/\">Continuing Education<\/a> to develop a new ten-week <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinecourses.conted.ox.ac.uk\/subjects\/english.php\">online course on Shakespeare<\/a> which includes part of the &#8220;Not Shakespeare&#8221; podcating series as an open educational resource.  <\/p>\n<p>Further information is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ltg\/teachingwithtechnology\/oxtalent.xml\">OxTALENT website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening some of the TALL team attended the University&#8217;s annual OxTALENT awards ceremony and would like to convey our congratulations to Melissa Highton and her team at the Learning Technologies Group, who organised the event, and to all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/06\/18\/oxtalent-awards-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,23,16,30,1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-community","category-conted","category-tech","category-uncategorized","tag-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}