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<p>At this session we will provide information and support to new CMALT assessors, providing&nbsp;an overview of the assessment criteria, advice on how to complete an assessment, and an opportunity to see how the assessment process works.</p>

<p>There will also be time for individual questions at the end of the session.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The webinar will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and we will issue joining instructions approximately three days prior to the event. Even if you are familiar with Blackboard, it is important that you check in advance that your system and connection are capable of handling a session. More support on using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is available from <a href="https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Participant">https://help...., and refer to the guidance at <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.">https://www.alt.ac.uk/events...

<p>The Board of Trustees of ALT&nbsp;is the Association&#39;s overall governing body and&nbsp;meets three times a year face to face and monthly online.&nbsp;</p>

<p>You can find out more about the Trustees on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee page">our governance pages</a>. You can read the&nbsp;minutes from previous meetings on&nbsp;the committee&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee minutes">minutes page</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>All interested in #femedtech are invited to participate in this online event where we can reflect on recent volunteer curation of @femedtech and #femedtech and consider what plans we might have for femedtech.</p>

<p>Link to join the webinar:&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/d7ac3654ec4f4... href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/d7ac3654ec4f464abda07b184bfff17a" target="_blank">https://eu.bbcollab.com/<wbr />guest/<wbr />d7ac3654ec4f464abda07b184bfff1<wbr />7a</a></p>

<p>Frances Bell <a href="http://francesbell.com/uncategorized/femedtech-curation-and-what-next-fe... title="read the blog">recently blogged</a> about this upcoming webinar:&nbsp;</p>

<p>Femedtech (<a href="http://francesbell.com/bellblog/femedtech-you-are-invited-to-a-work-in-p... brief history</a>) currently comprises a Twitter handle @femedtech and a hash tag #femedtech and a network of great people who engage variously with femedtech. There was some great collaboration in evolving the concept of femedtech &ndash; much work done behind the scenes by talented and busy women. Over the last year the interaction was confined to #femedtech and my curation of @femedtech, and we knew we could reach further.</p>

<p>In April 2018, Helen Beetham, Maren Deepwell and I&nbsp;worked on the concept of shared curation inspired by @<a href="https://twitter.com/IndigenousX">IndigenousX</a>. We started with ourselves, and invited people to join us. We were delighted with the response and are evolving the process of curation along with our volunteer curators who experiment, share reflections and tips in our&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166Wm-Qw4hPWtLTdyIAOCVextVHqcRJQX... space</a>. The chart below reveals how the number of tweets, follows and followers has grown thanks to our lovely volunteer curators.&nbsp; They have also shared their thoughts on who to follow, retweeting and linking tweets to current relevant events and topics in the curation space.</p>

<p>We have curators for the remainder of 2018 and the current process is sustainable as the work of changing and sharing passwords is once a fortnight, and curators have time to settle into the role.</p>

<p>We are keen to extend collaboration on the process of curation and what else we might do. With that in mind, we are holding a&nbsp;<a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/d7ac3654ec4f464abda07b18... webinar</a>&nbsp;1200-1300&nbsp;GMT 19 July&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180719T11000... to time converter</a>. All interested in #femedtech are invited to participate so that we can reflect on recent volunteer curation of @femedtech and #femedtech and consider what plans we might have for femedtech.</p>

<p>If you would like to contribute but are unable to attend please share your ideas in this&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KEHLGEAAd5nu5-aCC6NbRJh6EaGWGCbSFQjn... at&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/femedtech">#femedtech</a>.</p>

<p>Looking forward to lots of bright ideas and useful advice, at webinar or elsewhere.</p>

<p>Tuesday 12 June, 12.00 - 13.00</p>

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<p>The next open Teaching and Learning Conversation webinar is delivered by Martin Hawksey, Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer at ALT.&nbsp;</p>

<p>There has been much research in the use of social media to support learning and teaching. In many instances it is argued that it enables a decentralization of learning moving towards a distributed model which has many benefits including supporting a stronger foundation for lifelong learning.</p>

<p>Twitter is one service that has been widely used within this context. The introduction of hashtags as a mechanism to allow communities to form and contribute to a topic is now a well established model within both formal and informal education as well as in society in general. The use of Twitter in this way removes boundaries extending the opportunities for co-learning, in particular, discussions can become less siloed, every contribution to a hashtag community is potentially another opportunity for someone else to join the conversation. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3292377555">thinning of the walls</a>&nbsp;in this way is not without it implications and the vulnerability of being a learner should never be underestimated. Another consideration is that Twitter has been adopted as a tool to support learning in this way rather than being designed for this purpose. As a result exploring and finding understanding within hashtag communities can be problematic and with many open learning contexts individuals can end up feeling lost.</p>

<p>This conversation will explore approaches to help learners and educators gain more insight and a feeling of place within hashtag communities. As part of this we will look at TAGS and TAGSExplorer tools (<a href="https://tags.hawksey.info/">https://tags.hawksey.info</a>) which have been developed with educators and learners in mind to help support the collection, analysis and exploration of Twitter hashtag communities. These free tools provide a means to collect data from Twitter searches and analysis the results either in Google Sheets, where the data is collected, or visualized in the companion TAGSExplorer web interface. As part of this conversation we will touch upon the limitation of data collection from Twitter and issues around data protection and privacy. We will also provide some examples of where TAGS/TAGSExplorer has been used within an educational context.</p>

<p><strong>About Martin:</strong></p>

<p>Martin is Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer for the Association for Learning Technology and developer of TAGS/TAGSExplorer. Martin has held advisory roles within the UK educational technology sector for a number of government-funded services. In these roles, he has supported staff in the exploration and adoption of innovative approaches to teaching and learning. He created TAGS and TAGSExplorer out of his own interest in hashtag communities and has used it as a vehicle to learn about social network analysis and data collection and visualization techniques.</p>

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