Natural History Museum eLearning Workshop

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Natural History Museum eLearning Workshop

• A brainstorming session
• for online collaboration

Please contact Dr. Anthony Skip Basiel IWBL

pros_at_mdx.ac.uk David Williams IWBL
d.williams_at_mdx.ac.uk IWBL (t) 00
44 (0)208 411 6118 (9am 5pm GMT)
www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl
(c) IWBL 2008
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NHM online communication Overview

• Mind map perspectives for online communication
• Review of NHM survey
• NHM ICT Champions
• Possible alternatives macro level
• Systems demonstrations
• NHM Portal?

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Mind map perspectives for online communication

• Background to the project
• Issues, concerns, barriers, etc.
• Tools, systems, resources, etc.
• Connect people through appropriate online systems
• Compare to the initial NHM mind map

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NHM first draft
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Review of NHM survey

• Discussion of summary results
• Analysis of themes

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NHM ICT Champions

• Champions roles
• Project follow-up on/offline events

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Macro level alternatives

• Hosting your own servers / Distributed solutions
• Proprietary software / open source
• Short-term to scaleable long-term strategy

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Systems demonstrations

• Yahoo / Google Groups
• asynchronous text mobile phone options
• Professional Social Networks
• Emerald InTouch, LinkedIn
• Web video conferencing (real-time)
• Adobe Connect Pro (recordable), ConnectNow _at_
  https//share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do
• Skype

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Google Groups

• Google http//groups.google.com/group/natural-his
  tory-museum-project
• Google email natural-history-museum-project_at_googl
  egroups.com