ALT news digest 74, 5 November 2004

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In this issue:
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. Calls for papers
4. Other events
5. News
6. Invitations to tender
7. Vacancies

1. ALT news

1.1 Lab Group SIG web site
The new web site of the ALT Labs Special Interest Group is now live
at http://www.labgroup.org.uk/

2. ALT events

2.1 MOODLE: a free, open source virtual learning environment
9 December 2004, The Learning Lab, Telford
Presenters: John Phelps and Sonja Gruessendorf, Goldsmiths, London
Cost: £85 members, £150 non-members
BOOKING FAST!
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=167

2.2 ALT spring conference and research seminar: advance notice
Reflective practice, future thinking
31 March and 1 April 2005, Dublin
Don’t miss the 2005 spring conference – we were oversubscribed this
year.
Themes and speakers to be confirmed soon.

3. Calls for papers

3.1 An Assistive Technology Conference: Balancing the Equation
5th - 6th September 2005, Southampton
Conference participants are invited to send proposals in Word, RTF or
PDF format, either on disk with a hard copy or by email, accompanied
by the proposal form, by 31 December 2004.
Further information from: Linda Robertson, Conference Co-ordinator
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3.2 International Workshop on Efficacy of E-Learning Systems (EES1-
05)
24 May 2005, Miami, U.S.A.
Full paper submission: 25 January 2005
http://www.iceis.org/workshops/ees/ees2005-cfp.html

3.3 Third International Conference on Education and Information
Systems:
Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2005)
Orlando, Florida, USA, 14-17 July 2005.
http://www.confinf.org/eista05

4. Other events

4.1 FREE SEMINAR: Bodington Buzz: Introduction to the Bodington VLE
System
Oxford University Computer Services, Oxford, 19th November 2004
Lunch will be provided, but you need to reserve a place.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/bodington/booking.xml

4.2 Post-16 E-learning Practitioners Conference 2004
Manchester, 29-30 November 2004
http://www.nln.ac.uk/conference/

4.3 Online Educa Berlin: discount for ALT members
Berlin, December 1 - 3, 2004
The discount code for ALT members this year is AC 114. The fee will
be 500 Euro instead of 750 Euro.
http://www.online-educa.com/en/programme.php

4.4  The Scottish eLearning Award Dinner
3 December 2004
http://www.elearningalliance.org/events/event_viewer.cfm?id=598

4.5 Inaugural Australian Middleware Forum 2004
and Campus Architectural Middleware Planning (CAMP) Workshop
Middleware Forum:  7 - 8 December 2004
Middleware CAMP: 9 - 11 December 2004
Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
http://www.aarnet.edu.au/events/middle/2004/

4.6 Designs for Learning: Finding and reusing learning objects and
learning activity management (LAMS) in basic numbers and statistics.
Oxford University Computing Service, Oxford, 14 December 2004.
This project is funded by the JISC and there is no charge for this
session.
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4.7 Fifth Annual Durham Blackboard Conference: 'Interactive
Blackboard'.
University of Durham, 16 - 17 December 2004
Papers are drawn from across academic disciplines and both the FE and
HE sector.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/bbuk/dec2004/

4.8 IPSI-2005 HAWAII
Big Island, Hawaii, 6 - 9 January 2005
http://internetconferences.net/industrie/hawaii2005.html

4.9 Third annual workshop on Professionalism and Ethics in the
Computing Curriculum
University of Wolverhampton, 7th January 2005.
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/prof_eth/index.html

4.10 Second National Workshop and Tutorial on Handheld Computers
in Universities and Colleges
Moathouse Hotel, Telford, Shropshire, Wednesday 12 January 2005
http://www.e-innovationcentre.co.uk

4.11 IPSI-2005 AMALFI
Amalfi, Italy, 17 - 20 February 2005
http://amalfi2005.internetconferences.net/

5. News

5.1 Trends in US educational computing
The 2004 Campus Computing Project report summary is now online at
http://www.campuscomputing.net/

5.2 Journal co-editor sought
Taylor & Francis, new Publishers of Interactive Learning
Environments:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10494820.asp
- are seeking expressions of interest in the European co-Editorship
of the journal, to replace Masoud Yazdani, in 2005. Any interested
parties should contact: Ian White, Publisher, Journals (Education),
Taylor & Francis, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN, UK.
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5.3 Join the eLearningScotland Portal
http://www.elearningscotland.org

5.4 JISC news

5.4.1 Circular 8/04
The JISC regularly funds programmes, services and other activities
that promote and support the use of e-learning. The aim of these
activities is to identify how e-learning approaches might be used to
facilitate learning and to advise on how these approaches might be
effectively implemented. To assist institutions in mapping their own
activities and strategic agenda with the three year development
programme funded by JISC Learning and Teaching committee Circular
8/04 provides an overview of proposed JISC e-learning activities and
a list of the potential calls for proposals over the next 12 months.
A roadmap showing the development plan for the current academic year
is also available. The full text of the circular can be found at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=circular_8_04
The roadmap can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/08-04Annex.doc
Further information on the E-Learning Programme can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_elearning

5.4.2 Pat Leon interviews Sarah Porter, JISC Head of Development
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=porter_interview_251004

5.4.3 The role of e-Science in education [22.10.04]
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=e_science_news_221004

5.5 November release of NLN Materials
New learning objects in the following subjects are now available:
* 121 Basic skills learning objects
* 1 Construction learning object
* 4 Geography learning objects
http://www.nln.ac.uk/materials

5.6 Interactive media industry's skills strategy
To read and comment on the strategy visit
http://www.skillset.org/interactive
The careers advice & guidance service, formerly known as
skillsformedia,
is now known as Skillset Careers.  For all careers enquiries visit
http://www.skillset.org/careers

6. Invitations to tender

6.1 JISC ITT: Moving Pictures & Sound - Future Programme Scoping
Requirements
Tender proposals invited to undertake a study into the appropriate
future collecting areas, functional requirements and strategy
directions of the JISC Education Media Online (EMOL) Programme. This
study is intended to follow on from the Education Media OnLine
Programme Review undertaken by the JISC Services Management Group in
October 2003. Deadline for proposals: 12 noon on Tuesday 30 November
2004. Funding of up to £40,000 (including VAT and expenses) is
available for this study.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_mpsfuturereqs

6.1 JISC Circular 9/04: X4L Phase 2
The JISC invites consortia of further and higher education
institutions to submit funding proposals to make available e-learning
resources that are suitable for wider national use through the JORUM
Repository and to explore e-learning embedding issues, to build upon
the work of the current Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme. The
total funding available for this initiative is £800,000 over 18
months, commencing January/February 2005. It is envisaged that each
project will be awarded funding of between £150,000 and £200,000.
Each bid must include at least one FE and HE institution. The JISC
envisages that the overall bids funded will involve institutions from
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Deadline for proposals: 12 noon on Friday 3 December 2004.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/funding_circular9_04.html

6.3 JISC ITT: Middleware Assisted Take-Up Service
…a pilot Assisted Take-Up Service to support the work of the
Middleware Programme and the development of a next generation access
management system for UK HE and FE.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_middlewareservice
The closing date for Requests to Participate is 12 noon GMT on Monday
15 November 2004. JISC will be hosting an event on Wednesday 17
November 2004 in London to announce its future plans for access
management within the UK. To book a place go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=form&formid=1212429671

7. Vacancies

7.1 e-Learning Technologist in the School of Pharmacy
The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
Salary: £24,098 - £29,128
Position Type: Full-time, Fixed Term 2 year(s)
Closing Date: 12 November 2004.  Interviews: 10 December 2004
Job Ref: B3146
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/jobs/

7.2 LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST (Maternity Leave Cover)
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
The above 0.8 fte post is available from 10 January 2005
Salary will be in the range pro rata to £22,507 to £29,128 per annum.
Closing Date: 16 Nov 2004.  Please quote reference AD281.
Further particulars and an application form from the Personnel
Office:
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7.3 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Technology in Education
Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia
Closing Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004
Position Reference No: 21082.
http://employment.uow.edu.au/
For informal enquiries contact Associate Professor Jan Herrington
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Rhonda

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