Author Archives: Rob Stillwell

APEL at HMS DRAKE

April 20, 2010 – 10:03 am

Yesterday Myself, Harriet and Claire Ellison of UPC Faculty visited HMS Drake naval base in Plymouth.
Ian Austen was kind enough to show us around and tell about their experiences with APEL. Ian presented to the group details about the Flag Officer Sea Training Hydrography, Meteorology and Oceanography (FOST HM).
We discovered some really good practice with [...]

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BETA System Development – February 2010

February 25, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Development has been continuing this month. Still focusing on the administrative side of it. I’m basically designing the system to be able to design a branched step processes in order to accomodate the APEL process we have designed but also to allow modification and support for multiple processes.
The way it works is each step has [...]

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BETA System Development – January 2010

February 2, 2010 – 4:25 pm

I’ve been keeping a log of development progress so far on the system. Been concentrating on backend administration so far whilst we finalise the APEL process aspect of the system. Much of this functionality is in basic stages and will be refined in time. Got a bit more work on this backend basic setup side [...]

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PINEAPPLE Newsletter #2

February 2, 2010 – 10:38 am

The PINEAPPLE team are pleased to announce our second newsletter covering our progress up to February 2010. It can be viewed here.

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Interface design and usablility

November 5, 2009 – 9:41 am

The last few days I have been creating various screenshots of how the system may look and function.
I have now compiled these in flash to produce an interactive version so we are able to mock up how the system may function before making it all and get feedback from potential users.
This will be evolving over [...]

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Progress Update

October 19, 2009 – 1:58 pm

As you will know from the previous posts we are currently gethering as much information as we can about APEL.In the last week Harriet and I have been focusing in on UPC and what is already going in terms APEL and APCL. Our meeting in Bradford was extreemly useful and I must thank the other [...]

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Pineapple 2 Page Newsletter

July 20, 2009 – 3:24 pm

Now our baseline report has been completed we have had time to finish off some of our other materials.
This newsletter is just going to print, its primary aim to spread the word of the project around and for use at some of the events we’ll be attending/ possibly running over the coming months. You can [...]

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Baseline and JISC Meeting

June 23, 2009 – 2:14 pm

The team have been busy working on our baseline study which we are hoping to get finished for next Monday although we anticipate this to be an ongoing piece of work.
Yesterday we had Ruth Drysdale, Tish Roberts and George Roberts visit us from JISC. We had an excellent meeting through the afternoon discussing our progress [...]

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The Project – An Introduction

April 21, 2009 – 2:02 pm

This website will be used to host all information regarding the PineAPPLe Project. This website is currently under development so expect a lot more content soon.
In the meantime have a look at this video by Dr Neil Witt and Dr Harriet Dismore providing an introduction to the project.

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