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Association for Learning Technology Fortnightly news Digest 250 issued on 30 May 2012 Submitting Digest items. To submit items for the ALT Fortnightly Digest, including job vacancies, complete the form at http://www.alt.ac.uk/publications-and-resources/publications/alt-news-digest taking careful note of the instructions given. Your care in completing the form will make our editing job quicker and more effective. The deadline for the next issue of the Digest is 12.00 on Wednesday 6 June for the Digest to be issued on Friday 8 June 2012. Key links * The ALT web site: http://www.alt.ac.uk/ * Join ALT at http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/membership * CMALT http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/certified-membership * Summary of ALT membership rights and entitlements: http://goo.gl/NWpZU * List of sponsoring members of ALT: http://www.alt.ac.uk/our_sponsors * ALT’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ClipsFromALT * ALT on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/A_L_T * ALT wiki - http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/ * ALT open access repository - http://repository.alt.ac.uk/ * RSS feeds for various ALT services - http://www.alt.ac.uk/feeds * ALT Online Newsletter – http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/ * Research in Learning Technology – http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net 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 ---- The digest returns on 8 June 2012. 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