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Learning Technologist of the Year 2014 – Team Award
The Northampton LearnTech Team are winners in the team category of the 2014 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award. On Tuesday 2nd September, 2014 at the Association of Learning Technology gala...
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Learning Technologist of the Year 2014 – Highly Commended
David Hopkins received a Highly Commended 2014 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award and is an eLearning Consultant at Warwick Business School In the seven or so years since I became a Learning...
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Learning Technologist of the Year 2014 – Runner Up
The DigiLit Leicester Project Team won the joint runner up for the Learning Technologist of the Year Team Award 2014 DigiLit Leicester: supporting school staff, promoting digital literacy, transforming...
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SIG Update: the Games and Learning Group
For this latest gathering of ALT-GLSIG (the Games and Learning Special Interest Group, hosted by the Association for Learning Technology and chaired by myself and Nicola Whitton), we returned to...
View ArticleLearning Technologist of the Year 2014 – Highly Commended
Red Balloon of the Air (Registered Charity No. 1138657) received a Highly Commended 2014 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award. ‘Red Balloon of the Air’ is an innovative ‘next generation’ online...
View ArticleGuidance on policy on storing of data in cloud storage solutions
On the ALT Members JiscMail list Tim Smale (Keele University) recently asked: “I’m looking at providing some guidance to staff and students on the use of Google Drive (and other solutions). In...
View ArticleAbout Me – Sheila MacNeill, ALT Trustee
I am a Senior Lecturer in Blending Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University, and a very new ALT Trustee, having just been appointed at the AGM during this year’s ALT-C conference. I am really excited...
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Navigating the marvellous and the monsters: personal reflections of ~#altc 2014
Editor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. Early last month I attended the 2014 ALT...
View ArticleGiants on Surfboards: personal reflections on #altc 2014
Editor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. This is the rule: ALT conferences must be...
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Marvellous Monsters – thoughts on the #altc 2014 keynotes
Editor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. I wasn’t able to attend the ALT Conference...
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SAM self-help anxiety app offers real support for students
A self-help anxiety app developed by UWE (The University of the West of England) is helping students to better manage their anxiety and provide 24/7 mobile support at any time or place. The...
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Collaboration and support in the world of learning technologists – a brief...
Background: Students for Webinar Employability Skills Jisc Project The aim of our original Jisc project, run at Abingdon and Witney College between October 2013 and April 2013, was to develop...
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Have your say: ALT Annual Survey
ALT is launching a new Annual Survey. The survey is open for responses now at http://go.alt.ac.uk/ALT-Survey-2014 and will close on Sunday, 15 January 2015. President of ALT, Diana Laurillard explains...
View ArticleChief Executive’s Report
This is my last report to ALT Members for this year and there is much that we have achieved over the last few months that we can be proud of: Annual General Meeting and Annual Conference This year’s...
View Article‘Rhetoric and Reality’ – critical perspectives on educational technology from...
Critical thinking thrived at the 2014 ascilite annual conference (24th-26th November), held in Dunedin, New Zealand, with presentations interrogating claims on a number of themes. Shane Dawson...
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Meet the Editors
Liz Bennett and Frank Steiner have completed their time as Newsletter editors and have formally handed over responsibility to five new editors. As ever, the success of the newsletter is dependent on...
View ArticleOER: A languishing teenager?
I was involved in a lovely conversation about Open Educational Resources (OER) as part of the ALT_OERSIG webinar held on Thursday 29th January. The webinar was led by Paul Richardson and involved Terry...
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Perspectives on BETT 2015
The BETT Show comes around each January and entices all of us working in the education sector to play with exciting new toys and then (they hope) buy or sign up. Here three ALT Newsletter readers from...
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What does the Ed Tech think about all this? The Really Useful #EdTechBook...
Taking an idea about how to engage the wider learning technology community in exploring how and where we work is where the initial idea for The Really Useful #EdTechBook came from. In seven months we...
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About Me – Fiona Harvey, ALT Trustee
My role at the University of Southampton has always been about working with staff and students to engage in active learning using technology. I have been at Southampton for ten years and my role is...
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