Archive for the ‘Modern Languages’ Category

Last day at Humanities

Monday, June 9th, 2008

After working in Humanities at Avenue Campus in one way or another since 2003, tomorrow is my last day.
Another ISS person is down at Avenue, I’m going up to the main campus and hopefully everyone will miss me
It’s hard to work out which place is the best to be. They both have a [...]

Well done School

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Colleagues may have noticed yesterday’s publication by the Guardian of league tables for particular disciplines.
Particular congratulations go to Film Studies, who figure at the top of the table for Media, Communications and Librarianship. Southampton appears as third in Modern Languages, behind Oxford and Cambridge. Archaeology (10) and Music (14) also appear in the top twenty [...]

Protected: More

Friday, March 21st, 2008

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Update: Flash

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A few posts ago I was talking about the work we’ve been doing with Flash and the D-Day that was coming up. Well this is the update to it.
Everyone was pretty happy with the result. We had a bunch of people connect from other universities and (more than I thought) bosses at ISS either had [...]

Streaming video D-Day

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day. The LLAS have one of there sympodiums tomorrow that they are streaming live on the internet.
They are using Flash and the Flash Media Server to do this and it is the culmination of ideas from the subject centre, designs from their graphics people and a lot of [...]

“Other Modern Languages”

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

It’s GCSE results day and the BBC have made a bar graph of results for all subjects. What I find very interesting is that you can go through just about every subject in the entire drop down list except music and history and find that the average is a C. On music / history the [...]