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1. Collaborative activities

• Winner Mona Sakr - BlueStocking
  Bluestocking is an online journal investigating the intellectual and artistic achievements of women throughout history.
  www.blue-stocking.org.uk
  
• Runner-up
  Dr. Paddy Bullard - Journal to Stella
  This is an on-line edition, funded by the Oxford English faculty, and co-edited by myself and a team of graduate students. The rest is self-explanatory.
  www.swiftiana.com/stella
  
  

2. Teaching and Learning

• David Harris - The Other Within: Analysing the English collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk
  
• Runner-up
  Christine Eckhard-Black - Kaiser Karl der Große Learning Objects
  They are part of a General WebLearn Site at the Language Centre which contains Resources for German, particularly Reading Courses. http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/asuc/lang/german/cebgrbmtht/cebgrht/cebgrhtkkg/cebgrhtkkgn/
  

3. Student Projects

• James Gibson and Lewys Jones - MatSoc Academic Portal
  The MatSoc Academic Portal is the central learning resource for Materials Scientists at Oxford. It provides a central location for students to access all the academic resources the Materials Society offer. From the extensive virtual library, where many textbooks can be referenced on-line, through helpful tools to use and books to be purchased, to light-hearted materials games, all can be accessed from a single point.
  http://matsoc.com/portal.shtml
  
• Runner-up
  Naieya Madhvani - IT related questionnaire design
  The project aimed to gather the views of medical students regarding IT issues relating to their work with the aim of highlighting areas that need improving.
  http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/student/student/
  

4. Administration, support services or research

• Mike Nicholson - PodOxford
  A series of episodes about Oxford University: the courses, colleges, what to put on the application form and how best to prepare for the dreaded Oxford interview, etc.
  http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/finding_out_more/podcasts/index.html
  
• Runner-up
  Tong Chen - Medical Sciences Student Record System
  Medical Sciences Student Record System
  

5. Special award for best Teaching and Learning project created with assistance

• Marion Manton - Phoebe
  The Phoebe project designed, implemented and evaluated a web-based pedagogy planner tool: that is, a purpose-built application that guides teachers through the construction of designs for courses (modules) and/or individual learning sessions.
  http://phoebe-app.conted.ox.ac.uk/
  
• Runner-up
  Senel Simsek - Turkish for Self-Study
  Turkish for Self-Study, created and maintained by Senel Simsek at the Turkish Studies of Oxford University, is a set of online tools and resources to assist learners of Turkish to improve their language skills and to learn more about Turkish culture, politics, literature and society.
  http://turkishonline.orient.ox.ac.uk/

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