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E-Guides National Event 2008 |
| Date: | Thursday 13 March 2008 |
| Venue: | Manchester Conference Centre, The University of Manchester, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB |
| Ref: | C1596 |
| Fee*: | E-Guides: £60.00 with early
bird discount until 31 Jan 2008, thereafter £95.00 (those who have completed or are booked to attend the three-day training programme)
Non E-Guides: £115.00 with early bird discount until 31 Jan 2008,
thereafter £150.00 Bursaries for travel expenses are available. Workshops: Please refer to the application booklet to make your selections. |
| Workshops: | Please refer to the application booklet to make your selections. |
Following the resounding success of our National Events in 2006 and 2007, NIACE is pleased to announce that booking is now open for the E-Guides National Event 2008.
This one-day event, supported by QIA and LSC, will offer an extensive programme of workshops for E-Guides, e-learning practitioners and those responsible for implementing e-learning strategies.
This year’s programme is jam-packed with speakers who will bring you up-to-date on key themes and issues in e-learning and CPD, and workshops that offer hands-on opportunities to improve your skills with creating learning materials, using learning platforms and communications technologies.
Our keynote programme includes speakers from Quality Improvement Agency, Becta, Learning Lab, Institute for Learning, Centre for Excellence in Leadership and Manchester Digital Development Agency.
The workshop programme has a choice of over 30 titles, such as:
 | Make your photos tell a story for assessment |
| Offender Learning - the operational key |
| Working with Windows® Moviemaker |
| Magical media mystery tour |
| Online learning skills |
| WebQuests |
| Webinars |
| Improving accessibility with virtual classrooms |
| Promoting digital inclusion through innovative uses of new technologies |
| Quality and inspection: what role ICT and e-learning? |
A number of ‘hot tips’ workshops are presented by E-Guides from a range of sectors within post-16, including voluntary and community sector providers, offender learning and skills and work-based learning.
New This Year!
(Please refer to the application booklet for further details)
| An evening reception on 12 March 2008 with an exciting glimpse of a learning activity in a virtual world; |
| Breakfast chats on Using Moodle, Making e-learning CPD count and Second Life with experts and experienced practitioners; |
| Pre and post online event activities; |
| Accommodation booked on your behalf (only offered until Thursday 31 January 2008 and subject to availability). |
E-Guides is delivered on behalf of QIA as part of the National Teaching and Learning Change Programme (NTLCP).
| Sponsorship / Exhibition opportunities |
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Programme
| 08:30 | Breakfast chat (optional) |
| 09:00 | Registration (refreshments available) |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction Margaret Bennett, Director of Communication and Partnerships, Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) The following keynote workshops will be introduced in this session. Mobile learning: The impact of mobility on learning, learners, society John Traxler, Director, Learning Lab Teaching in Further Education: What does professional practice look like? Lee Davies, Acting Chief Executive, Institute for Learning (IfL) Harnessing Technology Christine Lewis, Director of Efficiency and Productivity, Becta Promoting digital inclusion through innovative uses of new technologies Dave Carter, Head, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) |
| 10:30 | Workshop session 1 |
| 11:30 | Workshop session 2 |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Workshop session 3 |
| 15:00 | Mid-afternoon break (refreshments available) |
| 15:15 | Workshop session 4 |
| 16:15 | Chair: Angela Sanders,
Development Officer, ICT and Learning, NIACE Closing remarks: Alan Clark, Associate Director, ICT and Learning, NIACE |
| 16:45 | Close of conference (refreshments available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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New workshops available...
B6 Assessment and Evaluation – Keeping Management and Learners Happy
Sarah Worne, Cornwall Adult Education Service
During this workshop you will have the chance to see how Optivote has been used
in Cornwall with learners as a fun and non threatening
way to assess levels and evaluate sessions. You will also have the opportunity
to create your own quiz, look at reports and explore this
fun technology.
(Please note this replaces - Using electronic voting systems)
C6 Visiting the English for Life and Work Portal and a new planning tool
called “The Learning Score"
Martin Good, Tribal
The Learning Score is a delightfully simple, visual tool for teachers that takes
lesson planning to a new level. Designed by educational
guru John Davitt (who writes regularly for the Guardian) it turns the lesson
plan itself into a creative, motivating, and rich resource for
learning. Using the idea of a musical score as the metaphor, you put in a
variety of different activities, and each one can "hold"
embedded content (audio, video, urls, worksheets, whatever). The plan can be
saved and annotated, so it contributes to a growing store
of lessons that have been tried, and which include practical comments from the
people who tried them. It's hard to describe without
showing it, so please pop in and enjoy the pleasure of seeing it.
(Please note this replaces - Accreditation 3.1)
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See what previous participants have said about the E-Guides National Events
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“Learning new things and new ways each and every time you come to an E-Guides event, there’s always something new to learn. ….. I’ve got new things to go back with to tell others about and I think that’s what it’s all about – sharing information; that’s good.”
“Every workshop I attended gave me positive vibes, with excellent and enthusiastic presenters”
“some new perspectives on how to develop e-learning by making the best of what we've got in the way of kit; some strategies for encouraging other tutors to develop e-learning;”
To sum up another excellent conference to reinvigorate my enthusiasm in e-learning.”
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Supported by QIA and LSC.
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