Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 251 issued on 8 June 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 latest Issue
published in June 2012
9. Current articles from the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology
1. ALT News
1.1 New Organisational member of ALT
ALT welcomes Yale College, Wrexham as an Organisational member.
1.2 Call for Editors of Research in Learning Technology
ALT is looking for 2 new editors to join the Editorial Team of Research
in Learning Technology. The deadline for proposals is midday on Monday 9
July 2012.
The full call is available at http://goo.gl/WtLPZ
Informal enquiries to Maren Deepwell - [log in to unmask] or
+44(0)1865 484405
1.3 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.
1.4 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
1.5 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
1.6 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 Early bird registration 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
2.2 CMALT webinar for candidates
The next CMALT webinar for candidates is due to take place on Monday 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]
To book your place please go to: http://goo.gl/gvXwU
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 One day conference on Mobile Learning at the Institute of Education,
London on Friday, June 22, 2012
This event aims to disseminate the findings of the MyMobile project
(http://www.mymobile-project.eu/); to raise awareness about mobile
learning practices in different European countries; and to discuss
potential mobile learning scenarios. The event is free but places are
limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis; to
reserve a place, please email [log in to unmask] For details, see
http://goo.gl/RVoSe
4.2 PebbleBash - The PebblePad Conference Final Programme Now Available
The final programme for this years PebblePad conference, 20-21 June
2012, is now available at http://www.pebblebash.co.uk
4.3 Educational Technology and Education Conferences, June to December 2012
Clayton R Wright has put together an extensive list of educational
technology and education conferences taking place between June and
December this year. The list is available on the ALT Open Access
Repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2218/
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 in 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 NAACE
General Secretary
Salary negotiable
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 15 June 2012
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/Pk8M0
7.3 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 27, published in
June 2012
Table of contents for Issue 27 - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tag/issue-27/
Article Is education research a form of alchemy? by Aaron Sloman
http://goo.gl/WdA10
Article The SCARLET Project: Marrying Augmented Reality and Special
Collections by the SCARLET Team
http://goo.gl/KDCQx
Article Staff Development through Tightly Integrated Blended
Learning by Peter Wren
http://goo.gl/7HQEb
Article Using Blackboard Collaborate 11 to deliver a global online
conference by Simon Kear
http://goo.gl/dhD0m
Article Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2012 by Adel
Gordon and Julie Usher
http://goo.gl/oMR5j
Article Over the Irish Sea: Moodlemoot 2012 by James Clay
http://goo.gl/Bt6W4
Article Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) 2012 by
Catherine Cronin, Farzana Latif, Matt Lingard and Santanu Vasant
http://goo.gl/kZ1en
Article Video in Teaching And Learning Special Interest Group (ViTAL
SIG) Update by John Conway, Philip Tubman and Dr Clive P L Young
http://goo.gl/kBPii
Article A week in the life of
Sarah Sherman
http://goo.gl/KV9aA
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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