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Places for this year’s JISC 2010 conference are already nearly full with less than 100 spaces left.

The theme for this year’s conference is ‘technology at the heart of education and research’, so JISC asked you to share your experiences of technology in an open blog competition.

Today JISC is announcing the five shortlisted entries, which paint a picture of life in UK universities and colleges relying on everyday technology to do things quicker, better and differently.

The entries will be showcased at the conference, with the opportunity to vote for the ‘people’s choice’ and the winner announced by one of the keynote speakers.

One of the judges, Professor John Traxler, director of the Learning Lab and professor of mobile learning at the University of Wolverhampton, said: “The shortlisted entries were chosen because they all make excellent use of the blog to deliver their message and fit our expectations of the genre. Each of them explores a different aspect of technology in education in a quirky and authentic way so we are now very much looking forward to announcing the winner at the JISC Conference.”

The chosen blogs

So much fuss about ICT in education!

Michael Vallance, professor at the Future University in Hakodate, Japan

A day in the life of a flip camera

Emily Bailey, e-study assistant at Oaklands College, Hertfordshire

IT and me

Mike Simmons, associate dean at the University of Wales, Newport

Could you live without IT?

Anna Holloway, learning technologist at Newman University College, Birmingham

Imagine a day without technology asks JISC: Computer says no!

Victoria Carolan, archives assistant at the library of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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