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		<title>Web2.0 for Busy Tutors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to announce we have completed our latest newsletter / helpsheet titled Web2.0 for Busy Tutors.
There are a number of free to  use tools available via the  Internet which have the  potential to help students who  have to work collaboratively.  These tools are particularly  useful for learners who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Focus Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One down and one to go, we are currently in the final stages of the project. We ran a focus group at Cambourne in Cornwall last week and have another at Plymouth City College this Thursday. I hope we will be posting some findings on here in due course. More soon.
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		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>An overdue update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How time flys when you are busy. We are nearing the end of the UsPaCe project and now looking towards our evaluation. There hasn&#8217;t been a lot to report of late from ourselves as the systems have been left to our users to get on with. 
Overall it&#8217;s gone very smoothly with the community running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Creating CV&#8217;s, Starting Reflection and an I-Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was in City College Plymouth assisting a tutor with a couple of sessions. As part of their module the students are required to create a CV and do reflection. 
Today we got them to use UsPaCe as a tool for creating the basics of a CV by adding information to their profile. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=67</link>
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		<title>City College Plymouth &#8211; Student Induction Afternoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today was the big one, an afternoon of inducting students from various courses at City College Plymouth.
We made a few tweaks learning from our experience yesterday with the 12 Public Services students &#8211; removed and added a few bits to the presentation and changed a few steps in the sign up process. I also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Public Services UsPaCe Induction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Neil and I went to City College Plymouth and ran a student induction for 12 Public Services Students. They worked in a number of different areas including Police, Fire Service, ETC.
We split the induction into 2 sections, firstly a short presentation discussing the background to the project and how we got to where we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Tutor Training &amp; First Student Induction &#8211; (FD Public Services)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday we did our first student induction of the launch. We are working closely with Sue Atkinson at City College Plymouth and a number of her student groups. This first group were studying an FD in Public Services (Neighbourhood Management Branch) and were all firefighters. 
The session went well with the students expressing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=60</link>
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		<title>UsPaCe Launch Update (Modifications, Preparations and Iritations)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I think we are well overdue an update on here. It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks getting things ready for the launch. 
As the title of this post suggests there have been a few changes. I decided to change the way we did the I-Google customised homepage. We now have  around 16 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Videos/icons&#8230;.done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a productive morning, I&#8217;ve fixed an annoying bug with youtube videos that has annoyed me from day one &#8211; see here.
I have also added a pluggin called friendicons which does exactly what it says on the tin and allows you to have icons of your friends instead of text. see here.
Have a good open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<title>New Intute and University of Plymouth Colleges I-Google Gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;ve finished the last couple of gadgets for our I-Google tabs. 
I have developed a simple University of Plymouth Colleges gadget which links to the main university intranet, email and library services.

The second gadget allows a direct search of the Intute database of educational resources. I&#8217;d like to open this gadget up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/?p=53</link>
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