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Exploring Digital Storytelling, JISC Netskills

4 July 2012
New Technology Institute, Birmingham City University
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An opportunity to explore the use of simple web-based tools to communicate engaging messages through images and sounds.

The e-Lympics, JISC RSC Eastern e-Fair 2012

5 July 2012
West Herts College, Watford, Hertfordshire
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The 12th annual RSC Eastern e-Fair includes a keynote by Doug Belshaw, JISC infoNet. There will be a range of drop-in show and tells and a selection of service and resource providers available, plus pre-bookable workshops.

Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service for Staff Development Managers, JISC RSC West Midlands

5 July 2012
Online
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As part of the staff development forum, this webinar will be an overview of the JISC TechDis Accessibility Self Evaluation Service.

Higher Education Forum, RSC Yorkshire and Humberside

10 July 2012
Online event
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The way in which we live, work, play and learn has been transformed by technologies. People access, use and create information very differently from the way they did in previous decades. In the 21st century new skills are needed and education has an important role in developing them. This online forum will define those skills and explore the place that technology has in their assessment.

JISC Techdis session: 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP)

11 July 2012 - 13 July 2012
University of Linz, Austria
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JISC TechDis will be chairing a special session ‘Putting the Disabled Student in Charge: User Focused Technology in Education’

Moodle Fest, RSC South East

11 July 2012
Farnborough Sixth Form College
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This event is free of charge and open to all the learning providers supported by JISC RSC South East. This should be an excellent networking event with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and get involved.

Safeguarding and eSafety for learners in the workplace, RSC South East

18 July 2012
IPS International, Rochester, Kent
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This workshop aims to support people to safeguard learners preparing for work and apprenticeships in the workplace. It will provide an introduction to safeguarding and some approaches and resources that providers in the learning and skills sector might like to consider for the safety of their learners.

Sector Events

Higher Education Academy Annual Conference 2012: Great Expectations – are you ready?

3-4 July 2012
University of Manchester
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Higher education is undergoing transformational change throughout the UK and although policies may be diverging amongst the four nations, the principle of students being central is shared. There are three main strands for this conference: student expectations and the learning experience; supporting staff to deliver student learning experiences of a lifetime; institutional adaptability.

UCISA Support Services Conference: Great Expectations

10-12 July 2012
Crewe Hall, Cheshire
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This year the Support Services Conference, formerly the User Support Conference, is themed around Great Expectations. The conference won’t be looking at an orphan and how they were tricked into debt, but instead will concentrate on the expectations staff, students and visitors have from IT services within a university.

ALT-C 2012: A confrontation with reality

11 – 13 September 2012
University of Manchester
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The time, effort and money that learners invest in their education needs to be matched by commensurate learning experiences, improved use of technology in learning, and effective methods of delivery, all underpinned by sustainable business models.

ALT-C 2012 will provide a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to come together to explore, reflect, influence and learn.

Cloud supplier speed dating

11 September 2012
Leeds Metropolitan University
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This event, hosted by Janet, is an opportunity to meet the top cloud infrastructure suppliers for research and education under one roof and find your perfect match. Janet Brokerage will also be available to help you access services available from leading suppliers using the cloud infrastructure framework. The event is only open to Janet connected research and education institutions and pre-arranged representatives from the suppliers.