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This post provides a summary of how you can particpate in the Alt-C conference wherever you are.
It’s the Adanveced Learning Technologies (ALT) conference this week in Leeds in the UK. Together with Cristina Costa I will be reporting from the conference on the Pontydysgu blogs.
In the past if you couldn’t spare the time, forgot to submit your abstract and thus had no institutional support for the conference fees or just couldn’t face another four days of papers and workshops, that would be it. No conference, no networking. The times they are a changing. First we have all manner of distance communications. And secondly we are beggining to loosen up in our ides of how knowledge is shared with the grwing popularity of technology enhanced unconferencing. AltC is not open to all this year. But there are events you can participate in wherever you are and differents spaces to interact with conference delegates.
First a plug for Sounds of the Bazaar. We are broadcasting LIVE from the Jisc Emerge social at Alt-C on Tuesady at 1725 UK summer time, 18.25 Central European time. Sit back and relax (perhaps with a glass of wine yourself) and listen to what the party goers are saying. Just point your browser to http://radio.jiscemerge.org.uk/Emerge.m3u This should open in your MP3 player of choice and after a few seconds delay start streaming. Better still, if you’d like to join in the fun, you can join our conference special chat room and share your opinions with others. You can also ask questions to the people being interviewed. Cristina Costa will be moderating the chat LIVE at Leeds at the following url - http://tinyurl.com/soundschat - no account needed.
What else is going on? Alt-C themselves have go in on the act and are providing access to the keynote speeches through Elluminate. Just head over here to get the full details. Alt has provided a Crowdvine social network site for the conferrnce. Sadly that is only open to registered delegates. But there is an open aggregator here (or download an OPML file with the aggregator RSS feeds).
F-Alt is the first ever fringe being held at Alt-C. It sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun. You can get full details on the F-Alt wiki. There’s a chance that sessions may be broadcast live on ustream. Keep watching on twitter for more details. You can find a FriendFeed aggregator here.
Last but not least, the Alt-C Digital Divide slam is open to all. Full details on the wiki. Go on - its much more fun than that report you should be writing. Create your own entry.
I am sure there will be more. Just hang out in the right spaces to find out what is going on. Or, of course, you can watch this blog for regular conference updates.
This was recorded live at the EduMedia conference in Salzburg. Many thanks to Andreas Auwarter who recorded the audio and did the post processing.
How can we use this to engage the disengaged?
Hi Steve - very difficult question. But - in my point of view one way to get them engaged is to show them how they could benefit - because we must get clear how we benefit.
Steve - will try to give longer reply in a new post - but one immediate thought is that many learners find it difficut to express themselves in the very limited formats that we prescibe through the academic schooling system - and its constrains their natural creativity.
I accepted an invitation to do a keynote presentation at a conference on Web 2.0 at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal on October 10th. What I dinn’t realise is that they wanted me to write a paper. I am not so keen on formal papers these days - I far prefer multimedia but I finally got down to it. I greatly enjoyed readng up for he paper and quite enjoyed writing it - though am frustrated at all the things I did not say. And I still find the academic text format a bit stifling. Oh - and I hated doing the referencing (though that is my fault - I should have done it as I wrote). Anyway here is the paper. I am trying to out in scribd to see if this makes sense as a way of blogging a paper.
If you prefer you can download the paper here - portplesfin
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September 7th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
& Don’t forget Tuesday night’s Edublogger meetup! http://f-alt.wetpaint.com/page/Edublog+MeetUp