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<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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<p>This ALT-Scotland event will bring practitioners together from across sectors to share their experiences of strategy, practice and policy in learning technology. The day will be hosted by City of Glasgow College (Riverside Campus).</p>

<p>This is a free event which anyone can attend. If you&#39;d like more infomaiton&nbsp;or would like to get involved find out about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-... style="line-height: 1.6em;" title="Link to ALT Scotland Group page">ALT Scotland Members Group</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Draft Agenda:</strong></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">09.30 &nbsp;Tea/Coffee on Arrival </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">10.00 &nbsp;Welcome &nbsp;Joe Wilson Co-Chair</b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">10.10&nbsp; ALT Update Maren Deepwell CEO </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">10.30 &nbsp;Learning Technology in College Sector - Kenji Lamb CDN </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">11.00 &nbsp;Learning Technology in School Sector - Kirsty McFall Education Scotland </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">11.30 Lecture Recording policy update&nbsp;- Neil McCormick, University of Edinburgh</b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">12.00 Lunch </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">13.00 &nbsp;GCU On moving to digital assessment and feedback across the Institution -&nbsp;</b><b>Steven Fraser and&nbsp;Rachael Magennnis, Glasgow Caledonian University&nbsp;</b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">13.30 Technology Challenges of supporting Graduate Apprenticeships - Lisa Scott Heriot Watt University </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">14.00 &nbsp;Wikimedia embedding it in practice -&nbsp; Sara Thomas and Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh</b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">14.30 Future workstreams - ideation </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">15.00 &nbsp;Plenary and close </b></p>

<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c1dd0132-7381-0f4d-4e04-052c4bd9942e">15.30 Close </b></p>

<p>The next Teaching and Learning Conversations webinar is led by Dr Liz Bennett,&nbsp;Director of Teaching &amp; Learning<br />
University of Huddersfield.</p>

<p>The webinar will report on the findings from the study of students&rsquo; responses to Learner Dashboards. It will focus on how they can be used within teaching and learning practices to support students&rsquo; engagement.</p>

<p>It will cover</p>

<ul>
<li>What are learner dashboards (proxies for learning)</li>
<li>Drivers for learner dashboards</li>
<li>Pedagogy of learner dashboard designs with focus on self-regulated learning</li>
<li>Limitations of self-regulated learning for understanding dashboards</li>
<li>Dashboard literacy</li>
<li>Conclusions and recommendations for practice.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>About Liz:</strong></p>

<p>Liz Bennett is a Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. In 2017 she was the Principal Investigator on an Society for Research in Higher Education funded Scoping Project entitled &ldquo;<em>Students&rsquo; learning responses to feedback on their progress using learning analytics dashboards</em>&ldquo;. Liz has published extensively in the field of higher education practices and learning technology.</p>

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