{"id":950,"date":"2011-08-18T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T09:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:37:16","slug":"in-this-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/in-this-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"In this Edition &#8211; Issue 24, August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>In this edition:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"DIVERSE 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2011\/08\/diverse-2011\/\">Mark Childs reviews the recent DIVERSE 2011 conference, which took place from 28 &#8211; 30 June in Dublin City University<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Highlights from \u2018Lecture Capture \u2013 Doing it well and at scale\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2011\/08\/highlights-from-%e2%80%98lecture-capture-doing-it-well-and-at-scale%e2%80%99\/\">Caroline Dobson-Davies, Gill Ritchie and Mimi Weiss Johnson provide highlights from the recent ALT conference on \u2018Lecture Capture \u2013 Doing it well and at scale\u2019<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Virtual Experiments Team launch new website and virtual experiments\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2011\/08\/virtual-experiments-team-launch-new-website-and-virtual-experiments\/\">Paolo Memoli provides an update on the work of the The Virtual Experiments Team at Southampton University<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Why Distribute Documents in MS Word or OpenOffice for an International Audience?\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2011\/08\/why-distribute-documents-in-ms-word-or-openoffice-for-an-international-audience\/\">Clayton R. Wright presents a strong case for\u00a0 publishing resources in MS Word 2003 or OpenOffice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tips and Suggestions from a Software Training Veteran\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2011\/08\/tips-and-suggestions-from-a-software-training-veteran\/\">Diane McKeever provides some software training tips and suggestions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/get-involved\/membership\">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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Articles in this edition.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":950,"position":0},"title":"In this Edition &#8211; 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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