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TELFest North West<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

TELFest North West is an initiative  inspired byTELFest at the University of Sheffield<\/strong><\/a> and is organised by a group of highly enthusiastic people  in the North West of England from different institutions who share a love for educational technology. The first TELFest NW was on the 17th of December 2019 at the University of Liverpool, attracting 60 delegates from 27 institutions based in the North West of England. 
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TELFest NW Committee 2019<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not just another conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When we set out to plan for the event at the beginning of last year, the TELFest NW team agreed that the spirit of this event would be fun and away from traditional conferencing. It is very important to us to keep it community based, free, fun, and diverse in terms of  the committee members, the programme and the presenters. The day was fast-paced and informal with three Digital Education Champions talks by Farzana Latif (practice theme), Dale Munday (innovation theme) and Pete Atherton (vision theme), 2 toolbox sessions and 10 lightning talks. We also banned the typical 20 minutes death by PowerPoint presentation and encouraged presenters to display their tech savvy skills and try different formats to deliver their presentation. We were particularly impressed by the University of Leeds Sean Gledhill\u2019s dynamic presentation<\/a>. Sean showed us one great way to move away from death by PowerPoint.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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