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Agenda

13:00 Introductions and background

13:20 Knowledge Café

‘How should we communicate as a group?‘What challenges do we face as learning technologists?‘How might the group help us all?‘What could we achieve together?’

14:30 Refreshments and networking

15:00 TEL idea sharing

15:30 What do we want from meetings? Next steps?

16:00 Close

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Where it all began…

Where is our voice??

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Don’t we want to share?

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How should we communicate?

What challenges do we face?

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How might the group help us all?

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What could we achieve together?

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Knowledge CaféCollaborative documents here

• Blog• Mixed model with central hub• Make it effective• Central place• Google hangouts• Central place• All of the above – allow people to select to suit• Face to face is important

How should we communicate?

• Isolation• How do we prove ourselves – working with the intangible• Getting management buy in• Keeping the momentum going after initial excitement• How we communicate our purpose, managing expectations• ‘mmm yeah’ *sigh*• Helping people understand what it is we do• Appreciating the behind-the-scenes stuff• Tension between learning, teaching and research on staff

engagement

What challenges do we face?

• Career opportunities• Break down language barriers between sectors• It’s not what you know but who you know – sharing and

network• Knowledge (and skills) base and sharing what we know with

others• Mentoring/ buddying• A shoulder to cry on (awwww)• Sharing of resources (practical – tools etc)• Opportunities for staff development – bring in externals to

the group

How might the group help us all?

• Working together – producing papers / getting published / awards etc with ALT (other organisations?)

• Co-authoring papers / collaborating• Pulling together project teams from people we know• Learning from others’ experiences• Collaboration / collaborating on learning materials (sharing

between organisations / individuals)• Find connections with similar organisations / potentially

sharing workshops as part of the group• Achieve a collective voice• Create a community of good practice

What could we achieve together?

THE IDEA SHARING

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The ideas showcase…

• Co-tutor – Loughborough University (Melanie King)• Digital literacy – Leicester City Council (Lucy Atkins)• iPad project – Loughborough University (Charles Shields)• UCISA – case studies on mobile learning (Elaine Swift)• Assessment scheduler – logging coursework

electronically – CASPA (Coursework assessment scheduler for programme administration) – Loughborough University (Caroline Lowery)

• WOOC, Loughborough University (Rich Goodman)• Xerte bootstrap learning object creation

(Mitchellmedia.co.uk) (Ron Mitchell)

Resources shared / shown

• http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_36#resume=2• http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/488• http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/elearning/• http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/effective-practice/elt-case-st

udies/#mobile

• http://www.digilitleic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DigiLit-Leicester-report-130624-FINAL.pdf

• http://www.digilitleic.com/?page_id=261• http://co-tutor.lboro.ac.uk/about.php• http://bitly.com/bundles/o_u60lqmj55/1

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What next…?

What do our meetings look like?• Some face-to-face and online too• Face-to-face for networking and collaboration• Online presence good but not fluffy• Face-to-face• Sharing in between meetings – development of WordPress for research areas etc• Face-to-face for ad hoc conversations and sharing of ‘real life’ learning tech• Face-to-face for a significant amount of time because of the amount of travel involved, so needs to be

focused (and possible pre-preparation needed)• External presenters or a theme at face-to-face meetings• Lunchtime webinars for 45 mins on a specific topic• Make sure we’re at different locations too• Sub-meetings / niche groups for follow-up and to feed back to wider group• Pecha Kucha presentations as part of webinar from specialist groups• Buffet with desserts – have your cake and eat it!!• Frequency? One general meeting per year and a number of symposiums / webinar?• Inclusive – every organisation (and consultancies) represented where possible• Make sure that it represents full scope of learning tech, every sector represented• Take advantage of ‘local’ for face-to-face, it has real value• Small groups to help generate items for next meeting / workshops etc• Face-to-face – not just looking at projects but also looking at themes or common issues