{"id":1050,"date":"2011-11-07T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T10:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-11-07T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T10:25:37","slug":"future-of-technology-in-education-conference-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/future-of-technology-in-education-conference-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Technology in Education Conference 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 4th annual Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference, which took place in the University of London on 7th<\/sup> October, aimed to shine a light on student expectations and the role technology plays in meeting them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just catching up with the Twitter back-channel and really like Martin Hawskey\u2019s (@mhawskey<\/a>)\u00a0infographic<\/a>\u00a0using #fote11 conversations coded with sentiment data from ViralHeat [NodeXL]; a great way to visualise data (Figure 1).<\/p>\n

\"Infographic<\/a>
Figure 1: Infographic of FOTE 2011 Twitter conversations coded with sentiment data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All videos and slides of the keynotes, 140Challenge and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) panel are\u00a0now available online<\/a>\u00a0and we also uploaded close to\u00a0500 pictures to Flickr<\/a>. As always you can share and reuse all of those in your own blogs and website as long as you attribute. Trying to write a summary of a conference one organised and hosted, feels somewhat odd, even self-congratulatory, but I\u2019ll try to be as impartial as possible.<\/p>\n

With the theme being on student satisfaction I was pleased that both\u00a0Emily-Ann Nash<\/a>\u00a0(delivering a keynote)\u00a0and\u00a0Nizam Uddin<\/a>\u00a0(being on the BYOD panel)\u00a0played an active role at this year\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n

#fote11<\/a>\u00a0could Emily-Ann Nash\u2019s student expectations point of view be the most relevant .. follows on from @jamesclay
\nby\u00a0<\/em>@timekord<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Fri Oct 07 13:50<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Photos<\/a>
Figure2: Emily-Ann Nash and Nizam Uddin presenting at FOTE 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 140Challenge seemed to work very well and we are fairly certain it will be back next year. A few people remarked they\u2019d like to get up on stage but were a tad nervous. Maybe we should give out wine beforehand next year to help with the nerves?<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed\u00a0Andrew Bollington\u2019s talk<\/a>\u00a0and his suggestion to look at things with different lenses. All too often we get engrossed in our own little world of Marketing\/IT\/Learning Technology\/add your own profession and either forget the bigger picture or the people we are working with and for.<\/p>\n

A point also well made by James Clay in his\u00a0\u2018The student as the agent of change\u2019<\/a>\u00a0presentation and something that seemed to come up\u00a0during the BYOD panel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Emily-Ann\u2019s keynote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

@amber_miro Get your jeans on and buy some coffees \u2013 face to face interaction is the best! Use the JCR and talk to them!\u00a0#fote11<\/a>
\nby\u00a0<\/em>@amannall<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Fri Oct 07 14:05<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So could the Future of Technology in Education really be less about technology on more about the face-2-face interactions with students? What do you think?<\/p>\n

True, we must take care not to overdo it! @mjryan42: @tim_neumann many students like f2f and [do not want just] more e stuff!\u00a0#fote11<\/a>
\nby @tim_neumann,\u00a0Fri Oct 07 09:31<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I had to name one key point to take away from this year\u2019s conference it would be \u2013\u00a0Engage With Your Students\/Colleagues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Frank Steiner
\nMarketing Manager
\nUniversity of London Computer Centre
\nTwitter: @fstoner<\/p> <\/strong><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/a> as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Steiner provides an overview of the 4th annual Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference that took place on 7th October.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[68,10],"tags":[725,837],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-reviews","category-featured","tag-altc","tag-fote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2011\/10\/fote.jpg?fit=477%2C156&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/in-this-edition-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":0},"title":"In this Edition – Issue 25, November 2011","author":"ALT","date":"7 November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Julie Voce provides a round up of the 18th international conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Conference: Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate,\u00a0 held at the University of Leeds, UK, 6-8 September 2011. 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