{"id":866,"date":"2011-09-06T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=866"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:26:15","slug":"alt-c-2011-thriving-in-a-colder-and-more-challenging-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2011\/09\/06\/alt-c-2011-thriving-in-a-colder-and-more-challenging-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"ALT-C 2011: Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ALTlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-867\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"ALT logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ALTlogo.jpg\" alt=\"ALT logo\" width=\"230\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s ALT-C 2011 at the moment in Leeds, the main annual conference on the use of learning technologies in Higher Education. I can&#8217;t be there this year, although a number of Lboro colleagues are attending; but I have been making use of the live online presence at <a title=\"ALT-C 2011 Live\" href=\"http:\/\/altc2011.alt.ac.uk\/pages\/alt_live\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/altc2011.alt.ac.uk\/pages\/alt_live<\/a>\u00a0. This includes\u00a0conference presentations delivered\u00a0using Adobe Connect, as well as live video streaming using a service called <a title=\"justin.tv\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justin.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">justin.tv <\/a>(similar to <a title=\"Bambuser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bambuser.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bambuser<\/a>, which I covered in a recent post).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Twitter, you can also follow what delegates are saying by searching for the hashtag #altc2011 &#8211; this really gives you a sense of the vibe and people&#8217;s current preoccupations.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this &#8220;amplified event&#8221; approach, to use the current jargon, makes you wonder whether you actually need to travel physically to conferences any more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s ALT-C 2011 at the moment in Leeds, the main annual conference on the use of learning technologies in Higher Education. I can&#8217;t be there this year, although a number of Lboro colleagues are attending; but I have been making use of the live online presence at http:\/\/altc2011.alt.ac.uk\/pages\/alt_live\u00a0. This includes\u00a0conference presentations delivered\u00a0using Adobe Connect, as<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2011\/09\/06\/alt-c-2011-thriving-in-a-colder-and-more-challenging-climate\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[69,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-webconferencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}