Join us at the Fringe
Josie and Scott have been putting some work into the F-Alt 2008 events - the Fringe at the ALT 2008 conference (please note this is not associated in any way with the official conference etc).
Why have a fringe? Well my personal take on it - given there is no offical organising committee - is that we want to build on those out of session happenings which always seem the highlight of conferences. And I want - selfishly - a quickk fure consultation with colleagues - on he issues which are bothering me in my work. Hence I have signed up for th e-Portfolio WTF session - see proposed session below. I am increasingly caught between the dilemmas of trying to provide structured ePortfolio spaces whilst learners are usning all kind sof different social software to discuss and presnet their work. I hope to get other peoples ideas on this. And I like the idea of quick fire sessions. And of sessions being participant organised and led. Social software and especially Twitter has great potential for letting us do this.
And I don’t think that the humour on the F-Alt wiki should take away from the serious nature of such discussions. Serious fun is one of our memes at the moment - and one i take seriously :). Sessions are being scheduled outside the main conference times - we do no want to take away form thse who are presneting in official paper sessions. So if you are coming to Alt-C - ad are looking for some serious fun, please sign up on the wiki. Better still offfer to moderate or speak at a session.
The line up to date:
- e-Portfolios: WTF?
Facilitator: Josie Fraser
Speakers: Graham Attwell
- Learning Objects: WTF?
Facilitator: Scott Wilson
Speakers:
- Second Life: WTF?
Facilitator: Nicola Whitton
Speakers: Scott Wilson
- Edupunk: WTF?
Facilitator: Graham Attwell
Speakers:
- Microblogging WTF?
Facilitator: Su White
Speakers: Josie Fraser
- Not not re-thinking the Digital Divide
but thinking about the digital divide, using gender as a lens
Facilitator: Josie Fraser
Speakers: Frances Bell, Helen Whitehead
