Collaborative Tools Project

Following a short presentation about online apps we're looking at at York, Michael Charno got in touch and said.. The following are apps that we use at the Archaeology Data Service: * Asana [ https://asana.com/ ]: Its a really simple task management app that enables task allocation, commenting, prioritising, creating deadlines, etc. Its free for use amongst 10 colleagues, so we've been fine with it so far. * New Relic [ http://newrelic.com/ ]: Systems analytics software for understanding where problems exist in servers/web applications/interfaces. Obviously more useful for people managing servers or web applications, so might not be widely useful. However if the university was going to get a license we'd happily join in! * Slack [ https://slack.com/ ]: We used the free version but quit after we found ourselves moving to the 10,000 message limit quickly and didn't want to purchase a license. We haven't replaced it, but would certainly start using it again if the un

Photo credit : Chris Bull www.chrisbullphotographer.com pictures@chrisbullphotographer.com +44 (0)7968440920 Last week I spent three days at the Association for Learning Technology Conference (#altc) in Manchester.  It’s been a good few years since I’ve done the conference thing but I was looking forward to totally immersing myself in ideas and learning from people's’ experiences. The conference themes were: Harnessing the power of the crowd – collaboration and connectivist learning Learners as agents of change Open educational practice Participatory approaches to the development of learning technologies Social media in learning and teaching The Emergent Themes - What It Really Was About For me, the standout sessions and the ideas that seemed to permeate most of the conference were: Learning Analytics Research and reports regarding User Centred Methodologies and Pedagogies Novel approaches and research to learning  i.e techn