David Hiddleston’s Blog

 Another successful bid by the Creative Arts International team -

As part of the Prime Ministers Initiative for International Education - funding is available to develop the following innovative project:

Blogging and Buddying to give information to International Students

The aim of this project is to create 2 blogs which will tell international students what it is like week by week studying at Edinburgh’s Telford College and living in Edinburgh. The blogs will also include information about activities arranged for international students to help adapt to the culture  and world of work in the UK.

The blogs will form an innovative method of communicating pre-application for students wishing to fiund out about the college and Edinburgh.

The two international students (Lindani Akambakamba and John Ssebanakitta) will work with two home students (Stacey Armit and Michael Hardie) to accomplish this.

 Good luck to you all.

- DH

Portal - Screenshot

Stuart Aitken, Tania Lopes, Keith Lawrie and Ronan Suess are the nominated Design Portal Team - Well done!

The cross-college team have the final decision making authority on whether the proposed portal design from the HND Interactive Multimedia students - Stuart, Tania, Keith and Ronan progresses to the next stage.

The Design Portal Team will attend a meeting on Wednesday 26 March to present the concept and working prototype to the cross-college team.

 Good Luck!

- DH

Edinburgh’s Telford  College require identity managed network portals to be designed, built, tested and implemented by 31 July 2008 for 1) College staff and 2) College students. As a parallel exercise the College ICT and CIS Services are implementing an identity management system which will provide staff, students and other stakeholders with secure single sign-on access to authorised College networked resources and applications.   The College proposes employing students from the successful portals development team(s) over the summer of 2008 to continue development and implementation of the student and staff portals selected.  Students would work with our in-house System Developers in developing the portals from prototype to live applications, creating a portals development toolkit and supporting sufficient staff training for the College to manage and develop the applications independently from August 2008 onwards. 

 Project deliverables Student and staff network portals

We require a working prototype staff portal and a working prototype student portal for initial review and evaluation by March 2008.  Following evaluation, the College will invite the successful student project team(s) to continue technical development and implementation of the staff and student portals and systematically document the technical infrastructure.  The portals and technical documentation will remain the property of the College post-project.

Good luck…..to the students involved.

- DH

Student WIFI is ready for trial at Edinburgh’s Telford College - this service is giving students the ability to use their own equipment. Some students have already volunteered through ICT session held in the last Students Rep Meeting to join in the pilot for WIFI.

The posters willm appear this month which will contain all the relevant information.

 -DH