Present: Liam, Will, Patrick, Tina, Nick, Kasia, Andreia, Karen, Sara, Michelle and Anna

Apologies: Ann, Canan, Doug, Eileen, Elpida and Simon

Announcements

Liam

• Mtech session on Mobile WiFi Hotspots to be held in the Library.

Karen

• Announced Apple iTunes Training opportunity 11-12 March

Many bloggers are familiar with copying embed code from sites like YouTube and Slideshare to include the content in their blog posts. Now there's a simpler, more robust way...

I've tried to write a plain English tutorial, for a non-technical and technical audience - all you need is experience authoring content in a blog or content management system like Drupal or Moodle.

How to embed content on OLnet.org

Embedding on OLnet screenshot, Flickr

Present: Nick, Liam, Kasia, Giota, Anna, Tina, Engin, Patrick, Karen, Sara, Doug

Apologies: Elpida, Andreia, Eileen, Canan, Simon, Michelle, Ann

Announcements

• OER10 conference - arrangements being made.
• Openlearn event, next Tuesday afternoon, Jan 19th,  in the afternoon. Patrick and Karen will be there with OLnet banner on a stand from 2pm. Presentation at 4pm, will be webcast on KMi Stadium - publicly available.
• A series of workshops in IET relating to their programmes of work are underway. Patrick is leading much of that. OLnet work is key. This is looking at OLnet's inward connection to the OU. Karen has the dates of the meetings. OLnet is located in the 'Learning in an Open World' Programme, which is headed by Grainne.
• 27 January - next update teleconference with Hewlett. Karen will circulate the draft report tomorrow (hopefully) for us to comment.
• Wikisym 2010 - co-hosted with Wikimania, in Gdansk Poland, Gdansk, beginning of July. The Open Collaboration Programme Track is coordinated by Giota. Deadline for papers is 7 March - will go in to ACM journal after peer review.
• Sara has been promoted to Support Team Manager. So won't be giving us the same support - she needs to find us a replacement.

The meeting did not follow the original agenda because it took longer to get started with equipment issues and then there was a fire alarm in the middle which took out half an hour.

Present:
Sara, Karen, Engin, Will, Tina, Kasia, Nick, Simon, Patrick, Giota, Canan, Ann, Eileen, Liam, Michelle, Anna, Andreia, Doug
Apologies:
Elpida (at COP15), Grainne (in NZ)

All of the OLnet Team meeting dates for 2010 have been added to the Google Calendar "OLnet Meetings".  If you do not have access to this calendar or know what to do with it, please let me know.  I have also produced a list from Google Calendar, which is attached as a PDF to this message (an interesting feature to try).

Patrick has asked can any members of the OLnet team contribute to the debate that has been started here: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?id=386669&direct=1

The OLnet Project is organized in several interconnected research sub-projects that synergically tackle the different research challenges that OLnet is addressing.

Present: Tina, Andreia, Karen, Sara, Giota, Kasia, Doug, Ann, Engin, Nick, Eileen, Anna, Michelle, Simon

Apols: Patrick, Canan, Elpida, Grainne

Announcements

Martin Bean (OU VC) coming to IET on 10th November, to generally and informally meet people from 12-1pm. All welcome. There'll be posters around in the area NE of the 1st floor of the Jennie Lee Building, but no formal presentations. May be tricky to get real work done there while the posters are going up for those who usually work in the area (which is a lot of us.)