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<a class="u-url" href="http://erambler.co.uk/blog/altc2011-day-2/">Wednesday 7 September 2011</a>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">ALT-C 2011</span></li>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">Google Apps</span></li>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">Collaboration</span></li>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">Web conferencing</span></li>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">Identity</span></li>
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<li class="p-category"><span class="tag">Conferences</span></li>
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<p><img src="https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6123669460_c6a81e8d3e_m.jpg" alt="Home on the range" id="post-image" class="alignright"><br>
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Continuing with the task I began yesterday, here are my initial thoughts on<br>
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today’s talks and workshops at ALT-C 2011.</p>
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<h2 id="social-media-and-professional-identity">Social media and professional identity</h2>
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<p>I began the day with <a href="http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/">Anne-Marie<br>
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Cunningham’s</a> talk on<br>
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professional identity in the context of medical education. Anne-Marie herself<br>
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has a complex identity, as practitioner, educator, researcher and student, and<br>
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when she began blogging and tweeting in order to combat the isolation she<br>
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sometimes felt as a GP she found that identity challenged in some interesting<br>
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ways.</p>
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<p>Following Anne-Marie’s talk was a poorly disguised sales pitch from some guy<br>
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who works for Blackboard — the least said about that the better, I think.</p>
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<h2 id="led-by-the-knows">Led by the “Knows”</h2>
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<p>Next up, <a href="http://about.me/dajbelshaw">Doug Belshaw</a> and <a href="http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1990/">John<br>
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Traxler</a> gave me a refreshing change: a<br>
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workshop which was actually a workshop. They’d chosen a couple of collections<br>
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of elearning-related case-studies, and split us into groups to critically<br>
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analyse the case-studies therein. We got a really good debate going, trying to<br>
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decide what the purpose of a case study should be and what it should contain to<br>
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be valid/useful.</p>
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<p>For my part, I think that a lot of the weaknesses we identified could be<br>
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mitigated by the inclusion of references to the sources of the data quoted, so<br>
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that if you choose you can verify the conclusions for yourself.</p>
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<p>I did like John Traxler’s comment that we need to be wary of policy-based<br>
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evidence replacing evidence-based policy.</p>
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<h2 id="are-we-in-open-country">Are we in Open Country?</h2>
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<p>The last session before lunch was a bit of fun, but with a serious message too.<br>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ambrouk">Amber Thomas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/daveowhite">David<br>
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White</a>, <a href="http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/">David<br>
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Kernohan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Helenbeetham">Helen<br>
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Beetham</a> got dressed up as characters from<br>
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the Wild West to talk about issues related to OER. There was even bonus banjo<br>
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music from Dave Kernohan!</p>
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<p>Some of the most interesting points for me came up in the extended discussion<br>
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that followed their introductory presentation. In particular, it’s very<br>
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important when thinking about OER to not get sidetracked by the content. Making<br>
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content open has some value, but it does not democratise access to education<br>
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<em>per se</em>; in some ways it can have the opposite effect. It’s important to<br>
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be able to associate the pedagogical context with a given open resource.<br>
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Similar arguments seem to apply to other forms of openness as well.</p>
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<h2 id="transforming-american-education">Transforming American Education</h2>
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<p>After lunch we had a keynote speech from <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/cator.html">Karen<br>
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Cator</a>, Director of the Office<br>
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of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. She told us a<br>
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bit about the Obama government’s plans for educational technology, which does<br>
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indeed sound quite impressive!</p>
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<p>She described technology as a “force multiplier” — not a replacement for<br>
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teachers but a way of making teachers more effective, which I think is the<br>
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only attitude that can work in the long term. As part of that, they’re making<br>
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an effort to make educational research more transparent and accessible to<br>
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educators so that they have more opportunities to learn about<br>
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evidence-supported good practice.</p>
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<p>She also talked about making learning more like a game, something which I’m<br>
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currently a bit sceptical about. I can see the advantages, but there’s always<br>
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the danger that as you incentivise one group you end up disincentivising or<br>
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even alienating another. It has to be implemented in a sufficiently fool-proof<br>
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way to avoid that situation occurring.</p>
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<h2 id="effective-web-conferencing">Effective web conferencing</h2>
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<p>My final session of the day was a workshop on web conferencing with a guy from<br>
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<a href="http://www.collab8.com/">collaborATE</a>, who provide support for Adobe Connect<br>
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in the UK. I’ll admit, I was a bit wary of this after the earlier Blackboard<br>
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sales pitch, but actually the presenter did a great job of providing us with<br>
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some useful tips for running a successful webcast.</p>
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<p>I took a lot of notes from this session, so I’ll probably save them for another<br>
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post, perhaps when I’ve had chance to try them out. The key message, though,<br>
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was this: <em>preparation, preparation, preparation</em>. Like all forms of<br>
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communication, webcasting works best when you’re confident, well practiced and<br>
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in control of your environment.</p>
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<p>In a little bit it will be time to relax a bit and have a good old chinwag with<br>
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some old and new friends at the gala buffet, so I’ll wrap it up for now.</p>
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<p>PS. If you’re wondering where all my tweets about the conference have gone, I’m<br>
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experimenting with a separate conference account,<br>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/jezconf">@jezconf</a> to avoid spamming my regular followers<br>
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with lots of ALT-C tweets. If you’re interested, please follow that account, or<br>
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you can just follow the conference hashtag,<br>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23altc2011">#altc2011</a>.</p>
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