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Around 18 people attended the second meeting of the re-launched Learning Technologists network.
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A summary was given of the outcomes from the last meeting concerning the vision, aims and ideas which were suggested, generated and agreed at the first meeting.
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The focus of the meeting was then to consider how all of these could be achieved and what would be the mains focus over the next 12 months.
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This was considered through:
I.
Launch of the Blog
 Ideas for content
 Ideas for features
II.
Twitter and e-mail
III.
Activities around connecting practice (reach and grow):
 Discussions about identifying similar projects or plans across the University
 Identifying new members
 Connections to new groups
IV.
Areas of expertise
 Identification of group’s expertise and interests in order to identify trends and gaps
V.
Participation
 Discussion of what things do we want to achieve next year.
 Focus of future meetings
 Assignment of which type of network activity would support this
4.
Next meeting options were discussed
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An update was then given on wider policies and changes, focusing on the Social Media policy by Kirsten Thomas.
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A collaborative working tool – BaiBoard was demonstrated by James Little.
Please see below for detailed coverage of what was discussed:….

Blog is soft-launched at: http://www.sdduonline.leeds.ac.uk/wordpress/uoltel/
To be developed in conjunction with Learning Technologists network and Digital Media Team. The following ideas were generated:
Information From Personal Activity Sheets
Content for the blog (potential own contributions)
Training Needs Analysis e.g. POWtoon –
New technology releases/discoveries (apps, software, web services) with a guide to starting
Blog Features
Blog-roll of contributors (links to other profiles)
Embedded Twitter Feed #UoLTEL

to use it
Hints and tips for specific programmes (or links to useful areas and pages) e.g. e-learning heroes for Articulate
How groups currently use technology for their own purposes (case study) – leading onto discussion over similar and alternative approaches.
How to generate online interest
What Projects are others working on at the
University / brief outlines (link to casebook)
How-Tos
New policies and procedures that affect everyone
Briefings and trainings that are coming up
Feedback from LT Forum
Tag cloud of terms / subscribing to tags.
Profiles of members:
Should be all members, rather than just active contributors to the blog.
Where they are located the University
Links to other profiles (social media)
Require an ultimate moderator (perhaps this rotates)
Access to licences/tools/software – i.e. of someone has a set of licences/subscription they can share this with the group.
What projects are we working on at the
University
Resources that the University provides (SDDU
Courses)
Area to discuss what we would like to speak about next meeting
Newsletter / quarterly summaries
Virtual Meetings via Skype/Google Reports from events and conferences – i.e.
MELSIG / WRLT
Updates on internal projects (i.e. FutureLearn)
Examples of things that you are particularly excited about – new tools / how they’re being used, new tricks in current tools
Feedback on how/why a decisions around technology was made – process. i.e. Why
Storyline was picked to generate an ebook, impact upon accessibility, platform choice, types of interactivity.
Use of technology / products with student feedback
Ability to contact others regarding issues or questions
Q&A / Help with issues area
Split into sections
Consideration of audience of posts i.e. some might be for internal eyes only, others for external and promotion of work.
Student contributors Student practices and how we might enhancement (communication preferences / collaboration methods)
Innovative examples and papers noticed elsewhere
Calls/ Conference alerts (ALTC, etc)
Updates on network activities
Features technologies / approaches
Showcasing other content on the web
Sharing sector news
Comments and discussion
Online reading group
Page listing other useful blogs
Links to useful resources (ALT/ALT-C etc)
Diigo for social bookmarking?
Calendar of events... Conferences. Categories.
Categories for content

Events of interest (internal and external)
Social Media Management
Calendar of Events
Conference visits / training sessions
VLE Developments and related products
(integrations such as lecture capture)
E-Learning Conferences, Blackboard specific
Guide to using iPad pedagogically
Attendance at Events
Information From Group Feedback
Tips and tricks...
How tos
Projects.
New policies and procedures info/briefings.
Share experiences with each other... Discussion.
Links to content repositories. And repositories.
Tags subscriptions to.
Next meeting.... Focused for the network...
Best practice highlight..
Content for student focus... Impact.
Student practices.... Communication preferences, .
Reposting other content. To blog.
How will this link to case study website.
News feeds.
Reading online journal club. New research.
About section.
Reports on events
Use of tags and categories
Public versus private (within UoL)
Comments? Anonymous or logged in users. No comments.
Twitter feed.

Identification of colleagues that may be interested but do not yet participate:
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Richard Ansell – Chemistry
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Kat Sidwell – Communications Team
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Emma Sykes / Someone from ISS
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Helen Durham - Geography
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Aisha Walker – Education
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Jim McQuaid – School of Earth and Environment
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Send round notice on David Gardner’s Learning and Teaching mailing list
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Ask Faculty Pro-Deans for Student Education to publicise
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Think about representation from each School, Institute, Central Service
Identification of connections to new/existing groups and link person (if possible)
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Social Media Work Group / Sub-Groups
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Enhancing Your Practice Network (Samantha Pugh)
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CMALT-ICT
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DSE Forum
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Representation from Communication Team

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White Rose – York and Sheffield
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AldinHE: http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/
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‘Learning Taskforce’ - round the country
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Alumni Forum – technology used to reach out to alumni
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Mobile Learning Network (Jane O’Neill)

Information From Personal Post-Its
Area of Expertise or Interest
Video and Audio Editing / Production
Animation
Name and further details of expertise or interest
Louise Ware / James Little / Tamara Bloom /
Jordan Leach
Louise Ware

Training Needs Analysis (POWTOON)
E-Assessment (inc submission) and Feedback
Web-Analytics/Surveys
Social Media
Louise Ware
James Little / Danielle Schofield / Louise Ware
(question formation for non-bias) / Megan Kime
/ Becky Sellers / Melanie Berrand (VLE)
Chia Lee (Google Analytics, online surveys)/
Louise Ware / James Little (Google Analytics)
Louise Ware (All kinds) / James Little (All kinds)/
Danielle Scholfield (All kinds inc Twitter) / Chia
Lee (Twitter, Blogs)/ Majeed Soufian / Becky
Sellers / Chris Birchall / Kirsten Thompson (Cloud computing / Tamara Bloom (Blogs) / Dan
Pullinger (for learning, reading and research) /
Charlotte Walker (careers)
Website Design
Content Creation (Articulate Presenter and
Storyline) / Camtasia
Danielle Schofield (MS SharePoint, SPDesigner)/
James Little (HTML5, WordPress) / Jane
Mansfield (website usability, WordPress) / Chia
Lee (Dreamweaver, Joomla), Louise Ware
(WordPress) / Chris Birchall / Tamara Bloom
(WordPress) / Charlotte Walker (content) /
Jordan Leach
James Little / Danielle Schofield / Tamara Bloom
/ Stephen Livesey (Videoscribe) / Jordan Leach
(Captivate, Storyline, Photoshop)
Majeed Soufian Software Development
Mobile Learning
New Horizon Scanning
Majeed Soufian (development of apps) / Megan
Kime / Hayley Atkinson / Kirsten Thompson /
Chris Birchall (App development)
Danielle Schofield (New tools and Technology),
Louise Ware (New apps, technologies, what students are making) / Becky Sellers /
(?) Social Dynamics Simulation
Pedagogy / E-Learning Theories / Course Design James Little (theories of learning, ipad pedagogy, online course design)/ Danielle Schofield (elearning, pedagogy, distance learning, mobile learning, blended learning), Jane Mansfield
Tools Workshops Training
(great ideas for teaching, online resources/courses for pedagogies and students)
/ Louise Ware (design of training, learning workshops, away days) / Stephen Livesey (online course design) / Jordan Leach
Danielle Schofield (ISS Training, teaching people how to use IS systems)
Collaboration
CPD for LT-Like Roles
Kirsten Thompson, Chris Birchall (Student collaboration preferences) / Megan Kime (online collaboration, use of discussion forums) /
Melanie Berrand (VLE discussions)
Megan Kime (CMALT + others) / Becky Sellers
(CMALT), Kirsten (CMALT + others)

Distance Learning
Digital Literacies eBooks
Communication
VLE
Online Resources
Academic/Research Skills
Enhancing Student Experience
Megan Kime / Stephen Livesey / James Little
Megan Kime / Kirsten Thompson / James Little /
Dan Pullinger
Hayley Atkinson / James Little / Kirsten
Thompson / Tamara Bloom / Stephen Livesey
Chris Birchall (Student communication preferences) / Kirsten Thompson / Tamara
Bloom (Working with external partners, Working with academics, Adobe Connect, Social
Bookmarking) / Stephen Livesey (Adobe
Connect, WebEx), James Little (Adobe Connect) /
Dan Pullinger (e-voting)
Becky Sellers / Megan Kime / Kirsten / Melanie
Berrand (blogging, discussions, e-assessment) /
Stephen Livesey (MOODLE, migration, design) /
Dan Pullinger / Charlotte Walker (support and admin) / Jordan Leach (Blackboard and
MOODLE)
Tamara Bloom (OERs)
Dan Pullinger (Proofreading, referencing, endnote)
Charlotte Walker
Technology... Adobe connect, camtasia, MOODLE, articulate, vle, ebooks, vital source, captivate, webex Student experience Elearning Distance learning / online course design Digital literacy...
Students and staff Social media Blended learning
Website design. Wordpress
Video editing
New tools/horizon scanning
Pedagogy
Easement / analysis
Cpd for learning techs cmalt
Mobile /apps
Collaboration communities of practice.
Cloud computing.
Student communication preferences.
Practice in general

All of the suggestions were popular and included:
Meeting Topics:
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Student Preferences in Feedback. Experiences in giving feedback to students.
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A 5 to 10 minute show and tell by students on a technology and learning topic.
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Best way to host e-learning/distance learning content
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What Apps are most efficient to use / A way of evaluating apps
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Digital identities
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Learning technologies and accessibility. Staff and students. How to deal with people student that have a different level of technology access.
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How can we engage with other colleagues who aren’t engaged?
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What are staff actually doing in using technology.
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Distance learning options – VLE/MOOCS
Features of face-to-face meetings:
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Standing agenda items to enable continued discussion and revisiting between meetings
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One person to talk to a theme (i.e. social media or VLE) per meeting
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Multiple people to help organise meetings
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Different activities/balance between communication information.
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Report of each meeting sent round and created by a different person/group each meeting
Group Outcomes
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Research into technology enhanced learning. Journal club or writing them. Publish them.
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Follow up on activity generated from within and outside the network by posting a write up on the blog

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Disseminate information top-down and bottom-up (to schools/faculties and back up to
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 committees BLTTIG, etc)
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Quarterly Newsletter from useful contributions to blog and meeting (using Paperli?) o Include Tidbits of news or work too
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Link to academics outside of network.
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Knowing who's who in the network. o Extended profiles on blog with areas of interest o Match membership of e-mail list to blog profiles
Make clear interests covered in the group (through meetings, blog activities)
Phased introduction to blog and features
Create a genuine Community of Practice
Next face-to-face meeting will be in October and be organised by (suggested) Megan Kime, Stephen
Livesey and James Little.