Spring EMLT Meeting 2015 – Booking and call for presentations

Our Spring meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists’ group is due to take place on April Fools Day, 1st April 2015 at the University of Derby, on the subject of…

Developing Digital Literacies

There is a lot of talk about how organisations need to ensure their workforce and students are digitally literate, but what does this mean for us as learning technologists? How can we go about developing people’s skills to use a variety of technologies appropriately for living, working and learning in a digital age?  How can we help people to navigate what, for many, is a new or intimidating world? Whilst institutions and organisations like Jisc and Mozilla might develop frameworks and strategies, which support the promotion of digital literacies, how do we practically deliver this? We hope to explore the answer to these questions and others you may have at the University of Derby on 1st April, 12 pm – 4 pm.

If you have not yet booked a place, please complete the form on Eventbrite, you will need to enter the password to get in. This is: em1t  (emlt with the L replaced by a number 1). The booking form is at http://emltspring15.eventbrite.co.uk

Call for Presentations

We’d still like some Pecha Kucha sessions, presentations from our community – 6 minute presentations with images – where you tell us about the approaches you have taken to developing digital literacies, so please complete the form if you’re happy to present.

Pecha Kucha sign up: http://goo.gl/j6e4UY

Closing date for submitting ideas is 5pm on Friday 5th March 2015.

Event Details

The booking form is at http://emltspring15.eventbrite.co.uk

Food and drink will be available on arrival at 12:00 – details to follow.

A map for the campus can be found on the website http://www.derby.ac.uk/about/maps/ and directions to the room will be provided nearer the time.

If you’d like any more detail, please drop me an email to Laura Hollinshead at l.hollinshead@derby.ac.uk