UK Education Special

Software As A Service

Live @ Edu (Email For Life?)
Logging into Microsoft Live Services with CardSpace. Students are given an email address which can be branded as lancs.ac.uk.... But it isn't hosted by Lancaster's servers. One advantage of this is the whole "email for life" idea is taken out of our hands and Microsoft looks after it! So the Alumni department would not lose track of the students once they leave the University.

Office Live Workspace
Paid for via ads but the ads will only appear when the users searches using "Live Search". This can be thought of as SharePoint Lite or (SharePoint for Students). It acts as a) a place for students to organise events with each other, b) a place for students to share documents when working on projects together etc.. I am not sure on its integration with SharePoint but I must admit it looks very similar! It would be nice if it had the ability for lecturers who keep their slides in SharePoint to push these down to a lecture/seminar group via Office Live Workspaces but this unfortunately was not demoed if it is even possible! It was advertised though as not the "Best Student Experience" but as the "Cheapest to implement"! Remembering that this is a free service it involved some nice ideas especially with the addition of CardSpace to log in to the service. This means you don't actually have to enter a username and password at all if you have your card with you!

It was a very odd way of advertising things but as a very recently graduated student I must admit the idea of being able to have Hotmail type facilities supported by the university is a good idea! Maybe this is why WING was such a let DISASTER!!!!!

Well in true student fashion after obtaining a reliable source of red wine and discussing the finer points of "terroir" with a certain French Man, the following picture (Wey hey a piccy at last!) shows the the UK Party at a place called Opium!

This involved very little speaking but a lot of eating small nibbles and several bottles of red wine! "Terroir" eat ur heart out!

For anyone who is thinking, "My god what the hell is this guy on about!" Terroir is a French word of which there is no direct translation. It is in fact a combination of where the grapes are grown, what conditions they were grown in and what Mother earth has given to the wine.

Wow I wasnt actually just drinking beer! How sophisticated!

This ended at 9:20 which was a bit too early so a night cap of strong lager of course had to follow!

Oh yeh I forgot about the last session!