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F-Alt Learning Goodness

July 23rd, 2008 by Graham Attwell

It might be summer but it is certainly not quiet. And the slow revolution of self organised elearning is gathering pace (Twitter seems to be a major ‘organising’ technology but more on that in a later post). One initiative which looks interesting is F-Alt. Inaugurated by post punk playboy Scott Wilson, F-Alt is the Fringe for this years Advanced Laerning Technologies Conference, Alt C, to be held in Leeds.

As the wiki says planned (or not so planned) activities include “round-table brainstorms on some of the top topics (and non-topics). Its all up for debate.

Format: each session is a round-table brainstorm of problems, issues. Short quick quick fire format, say 20 to 30 minutes, with the aim of gathering of thoughts. Each topic identifies the questions that need to be answered to make some of these socio-technical educational interventions actually work.

Rules for participation
No long winded waffle. Participants must be short and sharp and to the point. More twitter than paper presentation.”

Sounds my kind of conference. If you are going to F-Alt and would like to be part of the loop just sign up on the wiki. And even if you are not planning to go I am sure we will have all kind sof technologies for distance communication.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 and is filed under Culture, e-learning 2.0, Wales Wide Web. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “F-Alt Learning Goodness”

  1. Steve Wheeler says:
    July 23, 2008 at 12:56

    Hwo many typso can yuo get in a blgo Grahma? 😀 Very welcome to hear this though – come on the F-ALTies!!!

  2. Graham Attwell says:
    July 23, 2008 at 13:09

    A lot Steve – that was pretty impressive – even by my usual standards! Have got at least some of then out.

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