Hi everyone
Please could you flag with your members that the individual sessions are now live for the
Teaching and Learning Conference 2018 at
http://bbtlceurope.com/tlc/sessions/.
There are lots of great presentations from you customers, talking about what you are doing in your institutions. A great source of ideas and inspiration.
There will also be keynotes including Volker Hirst; a
panel discussion on Edtech
focus groups with Blackboard’s Product Managers, the
Knowledge bar.
We have the free
Academic Adoption Day on gamification on
Monday.
There is Dev Con on the Monday and Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday is a Mobile/Collaborate (MoCo) User Group meeting (Tuesday 9th morning,
https://community.blackboard.com/groups/mocousergroup for details and sign-up, nb this is a hybrid session ie people can join remotely),
The Scandinavian User Group meeting (Tuesday morning) and an eTeacher workshop
(certified training for staff in TEL).
The conference this year will be in the fabulous city of Manchester. If you wanted to make a weekend of it, there’s lots to see and do. Manchester University have some great webpages
linking to key attractions.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/student-life/city/
- Manchester is the home of great museums: Science and Industry, the National Football Museum, the Manchester Museum, the People’s History Museum,
the Pankhurst Centre, Police Museum, Jewish Museum, etc.
- Art Galleries: Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, Lowry (Theatre, gallery and arts centre); the John Rylands Library.
- It also have great theatres (Opera House, Palace Theatre, Royal Exchange, Lowry, the Contact, etc),
- and music venues (Academy, O2, Albert Hall, Gorilla, Deaf Institute, Manchester Areas, Band on the
Wall, Matt and Phred’s).
- Guided walking tours on a whole variety of topics: http://www.manchesterguidedtours.com/
- You could also visit the BBC with the Blue Peter studios and garden, and a whole range of other sets.http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/media_city
- Shopping areas/centres: King Street, Deansgate, Market Street, Arndale, Trafford Centre, Harvey Nicholls, Selfridges and the Northern Quarter
with its Craft Centre.
- Not to mention sports teams: football: Bury FC, Manchester City and United; the Manchester Velodrome,
the National Squash Centre; and rugby: Salford, Sale Sharks, Wigan and St Helen’s are also close by.
Regards
Gillian
--------
Gillian Fielding
[log in to unmask]
+44(0) 759 057 2012
Virtual Office with Collaborate Ultra
http://bit.ly/GillianFieldingsOffice
This email and any attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information of Blackboard that is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, re-distribution or other use of any of this information
is strictly prohibited. Please immediately notify the sender and delete this transmission if you received this email in error.