{"id":1140,"date":"2017-08-24T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2017-09-01T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T21:21:35","slug":"catching-up-ahead-of-alts-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Catching up ahead of ALT&#8217;s Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my busiest time of year, not least because it&#8217;s the run up to \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/2017\/\">ALT&#8217;s Annual Conference<\/a>. \u00a0But however busy things have been, I have been writing and talking about all things Learning Technology and ahead of September here is a quick catch up:<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I took part in a <a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.cc\/\">Radio Edutalk<\/a> broadcast presenting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/?post_type=show&amp;p=175599436#more-175599436\">ALT Annual Conference preview<\/a>\u00a0together with Sheila MacNeill and Lorna Campbell. I really enjoyed talking to the host John Johnston and his audience as Lorna, Sheila and I were reflecting together how many people contribute to making this event happen over the course of a year. I felt the same when I read <a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/2017\/news\/guest-post-by-james-clay-first-time-at-the-annual-conference\/\">James Clay&#8217;s guest post<\/a> about the conference &#8211; there are so many aspects of the community getting together that I am really looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things we talked about on the show was skills development and accreditation and I have been writing quite a bit about that recently, first for FE News in an article about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fenews.co.uk\/featured-article\/14655-digital-skills-development-in-the-workforce\">Digital Skills development in the workforce\u00a0<\/a>, and then also on the Efficiency Exchange in a post called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efficiencyexchange.ac.uk\/12076\/accreditation-fit-digital-purpose\/\">Accreditation fit for a (digital) purpose?.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With so many new fellow CMALT Holders getting accredited just now, my own interest in developing the accreditation framework further is growing stronger and I really hope I&#8217;ll get to catch some of those sessions at the conference. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/2017\/s\/?q=cmalt\">plenty in the programme <\/a>including a CMALT Zumba class. Better pack my trainers for that one!<\/p>\n<p>But the last month started really with my visit to the Edtech Podcast: where I joined host Sophie Bailey as a guest on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theedtechpodcast.libsyn.com\/76-startrek-open-education-alt-with-maren-deepwell\">episode 76<\/a>\u00a0talking about ALT, \u00a0Open Education and Star Trek. Like Radio Edutalk, the Edtech Podcast is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/2017\/our-supporters\/\">supporters<\/a> of the conference this year, and as part of that community initiative there is still have more in store, so plenty more writing for me to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my busiest time of year, not least because it&#8217;s the run up to \u00a0ALT&#8217;s Annual Conference. \u00a0But however busy things have been, I have been writing and talking about all things Learning Technology and ahead of September here is a quick catch up: Yesterday I took part in a Radio Edutalk broadcast presenting an ALT Annual Conference preview\u00a0together with Sheila MacNeill and Lorna Campbell. I really enjoyed talking to the host John Johnston&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=1140\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching up ahead of ALT&#8217;s Annual Conference<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-technology","tag-altc","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FullSizeRender-13.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wa4N-io","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}