Yesterday I met with Sarah and Huw from Planning and Information Services to explore the technologies we’re using to collaborate on the project. Sarah and Huw will be supporting us with collating some of our large data sets, such as the National Student Survey data and our cohort demographics.

Despite a fire drill in the middle we had a look at both Twitter hashtags and GoogleDocs. The former as a way to give quick updates and share with a wider audience and the latter as a way to simultaneoulsy work on a single central copy of a document. Here’s the demo tweet we sent to illustrate how hashtags work…

A really positive spin off of this kind of project is the stimulus to share and try new things and it’s great that the same skills and tools we shared in the meeting will transfer well to another JISC project that Sarah and Huw are working on.