Background

On Thursday 31st January 2002, the second Xgrain Learning and Teaching Associates workshop was held, attended by eight Learning and Teaching Associates and a representative from the project's Evaluation Team, who met with EDINA staff to discuss project progress and decide future activities.

Moira Massey gave a presentation about the Xgrain project and the agenda for the day. Peter Burnhill, the Director of EDINA, gave a presentation to update everyone with the progress on the project, which has been mainly technical to date, and on its links with the rest of the JOIN-UP Programme.

A session discussing feedback from participants on requirements work that they had undertaken at their institutions, or within their Subject Centres, was then held. Following lunch, a demonstration of the prototype Xgrain interface was given. The participants had a hands-on session, during which they provided feedback on functionality currently present in the prototype interface and on what they would wish to see developed. The final session then discussed the learning and teaching materials to be developed and procedures for them to be commissioned.

Participants

Xgrain Learning and Teaching Associates:

Alan Brine, Manager, LTSN Information and Computer Sciences, Loughborough University
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, University of Birmingham
Sue Gollifer, Dissemination Officer, ITRDU, University of Brighton
Sylvia Harris, Architecture Librarian, University of Wales Cardiff
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Manager, Heriot Watt University
Jenny Slater, LTSN Engineering/FAILTE project, Loughborough University
Astrid Wissenburg, Assistant Director Information Services and Systems (Information Resources), KingÕs College London
Richard Young, MathGate, University of Birmingham

Other participants:

Linda Banwell, Director, Information Management Research Institute, University of Northumbria at Newcastle

EDINA staff:

Peter Burnhill, Director (for presentation in morning)
Helen Chisholm, User Support Manager (morning)
Sandy Shaw, Xgrain Project Manager
Moira Massey, L&T Projects Co-ordinator
Tim Stickland, Xgrain Software Engineer
Ben Soares, Xgrain Software Engineer
Leah Halliday,
Peigi McKillop, EDINA Training Officer
Sarah McConnell, EDINA NLN Project Officer