It’s Wednesday and it’s day two of the ALT Conference 2009 here in Manchester.
An early start for me as I am running my Hood 2.1 workshop on Web 2.0. We had fun last year, I am hoping to have a similarily good session this morning.
Final session of the day will be the Epigeum Award for Most Effective Use of Video Presentations. I was one of the judges so will be at this session.
In the evening is the ALT Gala Conference Dinner. Last year’s conference dinner was really good and some of you may remember this video I made of last year’s dinner.
This morning myself and David Sugden delivered the keynote for day two at the JISC Regional Support Centre South West Summer Conference.
Our keynote was entitled, Cultural Confidence.
We used Activexpression, learner response systems, with the audience to allow them to interact with the keynote.
We also used Ustream to stream a video of the presentation, however flaky wireless meant that we kept losing the stream, however I did also record the presentation using my HD video camera.
I will post the video and the slides later, when I have sufficient bandwidth to upload.
Over the next two days I am attending the JISC Regional Support Centre South West Summer Conference 2009 which is just down the road for me in Rookery Manor in Somerset, just South of Weston-super-Mare.
I am presenting (with David Sugden) a keynote tomorrow morning and running a workshop later on in the day.
This afternoon I am on an expert panel which will be interesting as I have no idea about what we will be asked!
Today’s keynote is from Derek Law who is going to be running the JISC Services Management company which goes live in August.
James has used blogs as tools in workshops at conferences to allow delegates to share their thoughts, this he has done at a mobile learning workshop at PeLC09 and at the ALT Conference.
Newsgator allows you to aggregate newsfeeds from a variety of sites, combined with NetNewsWire on the iPhone it makes it very simple to keep up with a number of blogs or dip into the stream now and then.
So what do you understand by inclusion? Can we use learning technologies to improve inclusivity?
We discuss the ILT Champions Conference at Gloucestershire College, including the unconference format used and the learning spaces seen at the college. Do we need big names at conferences? Do we need keynotes? How do we make conferences financially viable?
We move onto planning. Do you plan your lessons a week, a month or a year in advance? Is planning a good thing or does it hinder creativity?
This is the twenty-first e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Goldilocks, what’s that all about then?
