Many thanks to all those who attended the TNA workshop on 6th December. The workshop was run jointly by the Project and Jo Lambert, ISD IT Training Manager. It was designed as a follow-up from our TA Questionnaire from earlier in the year which established UCL use of digital tools, confidence and interest in using new tools. The TNA workshop aimed to analyse a bit deeper what TAs do in practice and map this against tools and especially training.

The project is conscious that although we have developed materials around e-learning as part of the CMALT programme, a whole range of university and productivity tools are also used by UCL TAs and we wanted to think how they could be supported. Jo worked with the group to identify common admin tasks, for example around communication, assessment and attendance management. Early in the new year she will report back to the project and the UCL TA community to suggests how common tasks can be mapped to tools and training. We will also be working with Jo to identify any gaps in the current support and training provision.

Keynote for ICA Network Educating the Net Generation in the Life Sciences, 21 June 2012, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Working on this project, I’m coming across a lot of tools, lists and how-to-guides, and thought it would be useful to start collecting these. I hope you find them useful, too, and please do reply with additional suggestions:

• UCL resources at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/, incl e-learning guides at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/e-learning
• Blog posts from the University of Readings “Digitally Ready” project at http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready, including posts on useful apps, social media, managing the outlook diary
• Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies with a list of top tools for teaching and learning, incl relevant admin tools at http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-learning-2011/
• Web2Admin shared bookmarks on diigo at http://groups.diigo.com/group/web2_admin and the associate blog at http://web2admin.blogspot.com/