New SIMA Projects

AGOCG have been funded through the JISC New Technologies Initiative for the Support Initiative for Multimedia Applications (SIMA). This funding has involved the employment of a Multimedia Support Officer (Sue Cunningham based at the University of Manchester), a workshop series and a series of projects. The projects conducted between March 1994 and August 1995 have led to 14 reports which are available on paper and via the WWW site.

We have taken recommendations from the workshops and from an AGOCG planning meeting to draw up the list of projects for the following year.

The projects funded are as follows:

WWW Related Projects

• Guide to Good Practices for WWW Authors, University of Glasgow
• Web Document Authoring and Design, Middlesex University
• Survey of Software Tools for WWW, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• A Comprehensive Survey of the Legal Issues Relating to the Development and Use of World Wide Web Technology at Educational Sites, University of Hull

Virtual Environments

• Exploiting Virtual Reality Techniques in Education: Technological Issues, Loughborough University
• The Design of Virtual Environments for Use in VRML, Middlesex University
• VRML in Art and Design Higher Education, Manchester Metropolitan University

Using IT in Non-Scientific Subjects

• A Case Study of two courses in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences which use the WWW as the Medium for the delivery of Learning Resources, Bangor University
• A Case Study: Teaching on the WWW - Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches", Oxford University
• Using the Web for Foreign Languages - Support, Evaluation and Outcomes for Language Learners and Teachers, University of Southampton

Other Multimedia Projects

• Standards for Multimedia, University of Manchester
• Digital Video for Multimedia: Considerations for Capture, Use and Delivery, University of Bristol
• A Critical Evaluation of Multimedia Toolbook 3.0, University of Bristol
• The Use of Video Conferencing in Higher Education, Loughborough University

These will report during the period between now and June 1996 and reports will be circulated to subscribers and available online.

Anne Mumford
a.m.mumford@lut.ac.uk