The guide to Internet resources in hospitality,
leisure, sport and tourism
Previous Sprig Seminars
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2003 | 2002 |
2007
What's cooking? Making the Internet more hospitable - Birmingham College
of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies (BCFTCS).
This seminar included presentations from; Higher Education Academy Network
for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Intute for Hospitality and
Catering and also the Hotel, Catering and International Management Association
(HCIMA)
2006
All Change: Sprig update on resources for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport
and Tourism.
The seminar contained presentations by Sheffield Hallam University on the student portal and blackboard. An update was given on ALTIS and the HEA. EBSCO also gave a presentation on their HLST resources, particularly concentrating on SportDiscus.
In the afternoon there was a visit to the English Institute of Sport.2005
SPRIG E-Learning Workshop
An E-Learning Workshop was held at the University of Gloucestershire in March 2005 this year.
Libby Symonds from University College Worcester,
spoke about the role of the learning technologist in the implementation
of WebCT at Worcester.
Martin Scarrott’s paper about the role of the library staff in supporting
e-learning is printed in this issue of the Bulletin 41.
The final presentation on the use of IT to support
teaching and learning was by John Beech from the University of Coventry.
Further information on the SPRIG Seminar 2004 is available in SPRIG Bulletin
41. This is available online to SPRIG members here
2003
Information Literacy in Sport, Leisure and Tourism
Wednesday 25 June, University of Gloucestershire
What is Information Literacy? - Sheila Webber,
University of Sheffield Information Literacy in the curriculum - Martin Jenkins, University of Gloucester
Tools for teaching information literacy - Theresa Summerfield, Resource Guide Adviser for Hospitality,Leisure, Sport and Tourism, JISC
Information Literacy in a VLE - Sarah Ward, Sheffield Hallam University
Proceedings of the SPRIG seminar 2003 - are now available in SPRIG Bulletin 39. This is available online to SPRIG members here
2002
Mapping the Territory: an exploration of electronic information
resources in leisure, tourism and sport
Sheffield Hallam University - June 2002
Programme Discovering good quality resources on the Web for hospitality,
leisure, sport and tourism: a new information service for the UK higher
and further education sectors - Steve Hewett, ALTIS Project Manager,
University of Birmingham Sports Gateway - the development of Sport England's web information portal
Jonathan Webb, Information Manager, Sport England
SPORTDiscus and UK content – are we content with it?
Lesley Gunter, Senior Sport and Leisure Librarian, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information
Euromonitor - Sarah Ward, Information Specialist, Sheffield Hallam University and Gordon Cousland
Proceedings of the SPRIG seminar 2002 are available in SPRIG Bulletin 37. This is available online to SPRIG members here
Proceedings of the SPRIG seminar 2001 - Learning from Experience: Information and Major Sports Events - are available here