Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 250 issued on 30 May 2012

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Table of Contents
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. News
4. Other events
5. Calls for proposals
6. Funding calls
7. Job vacancies
8. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from the most recent issue
9. Current articles from the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology


Welcome to the 250th edition of the ALT fortnightly news digest.

1. ALT News

1.1	Google
In line with Google's announcement during the 2011 ALT Conference, ALT 
will this year be working with Google to run a competition to seek out 
and celebrate examples of excellent uses of Google Apps in learning and 
teaching. We intend to make a detailed announcement about this in due 
course. The closing date for entries is likely to be towards the end of 
June, with winners announced at the 2012 ALT Conference in Manchester.

1.2 Call for expressions of interest in membership of each of ALT's four 
main operational committees
This will be issued in June 2012, with the closing date likely to be in 
early September, for those appointed to take part in their first 
committee meeting in October.

1.3 Your ALT Newsletter needs You!
ALT is a membership organisation, and the quality of what we can do for 
our members is often driven by what we can do ourselves to help the 
broader community of practitioners. This is particularly true with the 
ALT Newsletter. To this end, we are always receptive to new ideas and on 
the lookout for new content.
For information on the kinds of articles we are looking for and details 
of how to submit please go to http://goo.gl/R516X

1.4 Any employee of an ALT member organisation is entitled to join ALT 
individually at no cost as an Associate Member. You can do this in 
seconds from http://goo.gl/fOCYC

1.5 ALT Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
ALT Special Interest Groups bring together individuals or organisations 
within ALT around a common theme. Here are links to each of our active SIGs:
* Inclusive Learning SIG (ILSIG) http://goo.gl/CQNQX;
* Learning Environment Review SIG (LERSIG) http://goo.gl/3MgBO;
* Video in Education SIG (ViTAL) http://goo.gl/oqV7n;
* Games and Learning SIG (GLSIG) http://goo.gl/01OtH;
* Politics and Critical Theory SIG (PACT) http://goo.gl/Hhzjp;
* White Rose Learning Technologists' Forum (WRLT SIG) http://goo.gl/LLmJM;
* Open Education SIG (OESIG) http://goo.gl/J0Kkx.


2. ALT events

2.1 A Rough Guide to Google Analytics, 31 May 2012
ALT is pleased to be offering a free lunchtime webinar with Daniel 
Barker on website analytics. Dan advises clients on how to improve the 
visibility of their websites using Google Analytics and other methods.
http://goo.gl/Wwt9k

2.2 Early bird registration now open for ALT-C 2012 – a confrontation 
with reality
The 19th international conference of the Association for Learning 
Technology will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, 11-13 
September 2012.
For more information go to http://goo.gl/N3YOC
Register at http://goo.gl/9th8d

2.3 CMALT webinars for candidates and assessors
The next CMALT webinar for Certified Members of ALT interested in 
becoming assessors will take place on Friday 1 June at 12.30 GMT. The 
session is designed to provide information and support to new CMALT 
assessors.
For details please contact [log in to unmask]
To book please go to: http://goo.gl/PKmtc

The next CMALT webinar for candidates is due to take place on 11 June. 
This webinar is for CMALT candidates who are registered for the scheme 
and who are working towards their portfolio submission.
For details please contact [log in to unmask]
Further details will be available via the events page in due course:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.

3. News

3.1 Opportunities at the IOE (London Knowledge Lab)
The Institute of Education, London, has launched a programme of 
strategic recruitment. We hope very much that at least one of the posts 
at lecturer or senior lecturer level will be based at the London 
Knowledge Lab. The field of sociology of technology, would be a 
particularly attractive - though not exclusive - field of expertise for 
an aspiring candidate. If you are interested in working at the London 
Knowledge Lab, please feel free to contact us. Richard Noss, Co-director 
London Knowledge Lab, IOE London. [log in to unmask]


4. Other events

4.1 Employer Engagement in a Digital Age - University of Greenwich, 4
July 2012
The 10th annual APT conference, sponsored by the HEA, will debate and 
explore issues surrounding employer engagement within higher education 
in a digital world. This year's keynote speaker is Marcus Orlovsky and 
the conference panel will include high profile graduate employers. The 
draft programme has now been published.
For more information and to book go to http://goo.gl/ioS8N

4.2 PebbleBash  - The PebblePad Conference Final Programme Now Available
The final programme for this year’s PebblePad conference, 20-21 June 
2012, is now available at http://www.pebblebash.co.uk

4.3 Novice International Conference: Insights for online professional 
communities, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, 4 – 5 October 2012
The conference aims to bring together those working in elearning, and 
members of any profession involved, or wishing to be involved, with 
their own online professional community. Though the NOVICE website 
focuses on the veterinary profession and veterinary education, the 
conference is open to any profession.
http://goo.gl/HyaqP


5. Calls for proposals

5.1 Call for papers for the Immersive Education Initiative, Paris 
Summit, 26-27 November
The theme for the 2nd European Immersive Education (iED) Summit is: 
Immersive Education: combining creativity, art and pedagogy. The two-day 
event is open to the global academic community and experts in immersion, 
simulation, learning games, virtual reality and full, augmented and 
mixed reality.
Important Dates: Paper submission - 27th July 2012, Notification of 
acceptance - 28th September 2012, Final paper submission - 26th October 
2012.
See for further information: http://goo.gl/hjq7G


6. Funding calls

None this issue.

7. Jobs

7.1 University of Bath
Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office
Senior Educational Software and Systems Developer
BB1096
£30,122 - £35,938
Full time
Closing date: 10 June 2012
http://goo.gl/W6DTc

7.2 Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
Educational Developer
037/16962/PS
£37,012 - £40,430
Part time, Temporary
Closing date: 7 June 2012
Informal enquiries to Rhona Sharpe [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/8Wpcj

7.3 NIACE
General Secretary
Salary negotiable
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 15 June 2012
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/Pk8M0

7.4 There is a regular supply of mainly US jobs in the learning 
technology field at http://www.salt.org/salt.asp?ss=l&pn=joblistall, 
with a helpful RSS feed at http://www.salt.org/Weblink/SaltJobs.rss.


8. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from Issue 26, published in 
February 2012

Table of contents for Issue 26 - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tag/issue-26/

Article – ‘The Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) School Support 
Pack’by Sugata Mitra
http://goo.gl/d5zMC

Article – ‘Mobile Publishing with Jutoh’ by Scott Hennessy
http://goo.gl/V3ufe

Article – ‘Getting the Mix Right Once Again: A Peek into the Interaction 
Equivalency Theorem and Interaction Design’ by Terumi Miyazoe
http://goo.gl/E5hHc

Article – ‘A Story of (O)pen’ by Amber Thomas
http://goo.gl/eRgEu


9. Current articles from our peer-reviewed Open Access journal Research 
in Learning Technology

Research in Learning Technology is now published online continuously, 
though we continue to produce printed Issues and to allocate articles to 
Issues.

The journal web site is http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/. 
Below are links to articles from the most recent Issue.

9.1 Vol 20, Issue 2 – table of contents

Editorial – “Relationships with technology”
Rhona Sharpe
http://goo.gl/QZZ4d
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.18531

Article – “Chalkface; interface; screenface: moving the metaphor of 
teaching towards the nexus of teaching and learning”
Alison Ruth
http://goo.gl/Zmv22
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17187

Article – “Perceptions of the effects of clicker technology on student 
learning and engagement: a study of freshmen Chemistry students”
Jenepher Lennox Terrion, Victoria Aceti
http://goo.gl/1hkYM
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16150

Article – “Teaching with wikis: improving staff development through 
action research”
Robyn Benson, Charlotte Brack, Gayani Samarwickrema
http://goo.gl/aeQP0
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16149

Article – “Applying a framework to evaluate assignment marking software: 
a case study on Lightwork”
Eva Heinrich, John Milne
http://goo.gl/oj0BJ
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16152

Article - "Making science real: photo-sharing in biology and chemistry"
Jenny Waycott, Barney Dalgarno, Gregor Kennedy, Andrea Bishop
http://goo.gl/BNlE6
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16151

Article - "Linking theory to practice in learning technology research"
Cathy Gunn, Caroline Steel
http://goo.gl/QQqA8
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16148

Article - "The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a 
pilot study"
Gail Wilson, Marcus Randall
http://goo.gl/CwdK2
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0/14431



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