Dear colleagues,
I'd be grateful if you could forward this email on to others who may
find it of interest.
With apologies for cross posting,
Hayley
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Hayley Willis
Head of Conferences and Events at ALT
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Rewiring Inclusion: Strategies, tools and techniques to promote
barrier-free learning
A national one day conference in Nottingham at the National College on
Tuesday 9 February 2010, with an optional evening session on 8 February.
Organised jointly by the Association for Learning Technology and JISC
TechDis.
With an outstanding range of workshop sessions, and plenary
contributions from:
· Google's Julian Harty - "Wave, Chrome OS, Online Docs, and Android.
What impact will they have on the environment for learning?";
· Jane Seale from the University of Southampton;
· Yahoo! Europe's Artur Ortega - "The Yahoo! approach to accessibility";
· Dónal Fitzpatrick from the School of Computing at Dublin City
University - "The contribution that computer science is making on
inclusion";
· Peter Hartley from Bradford University;
· Alison Mills from The Manchester College - "How a large urban college
has taken inclusion to the heart of its operations";
· James Clay from Gloucestershire College.
Full programme for the event [1 MB PDF]:
http://alt.ac.uk/docs/rewiring_inclusion_feb09.pdf
A large print version is available from
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/rewiring_inclusion_feb09_lp.pdf.
The conference will focus in particular on browser technologies, Web2.0,
e-learning, and mobile learning, and on the benefits these can offer to
all users, including those with disabilities or learning difficulties.
All sectors were represented in the workshop proposals and we are
delighted that Independent Specialist Colleges were successful in being
selected to present alongside Universities, FE colleges, Project
Consultants, and JISC Regional Support Centres.
Costs to attend:
£120 members of ALT
£160 non members of ALT
£100 dinner, bed and breakfast at the National College
Booking deadline:
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 - http://www.alt.ac.uk/conferences.php
To register your interest for the event, and to be kept informed about
arrangements, please join the relevant low-volume email announcements
list at http://www.alt.ac.uk/lists.html.
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