Archives for Learning and Education Annual Conference 2015: Call for Papers

Unfortunatley the ALES annual conference has had to be cancelled. We will post detail of our AGM as soon as possible. 

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield, 5^th June 2015

The nature of teaching and learning has traditionally focused on the transmission model: the passing of knowledge or information from educators to students. However, new and emerging technologies have challenged this approach by emphasising the quality of knowledge and how it is acquired, and also by fostering more participative and collaborative methods of teaching and learning.

Archive services across the UK are contributing to this transformation by embracing digital and online technology to create, share and disseminate knowledge and information more widely, and to engage with different groups of users and learners including schools, university students, adult learners and community groups.

This one-day conference would like to explore how archivists, education and outreach officers, and other professionals working in the heritage sector are responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by online and digital learning, particularly at a time of significant financial constraints in the sector. Questions that we wish to cover on the day include:

• how can archive services support digital learning?

• to what extent has digital learning improved access and changed perceptions about archives?

• what skillsets and resources are required to engage in digital learning?

• what can archive professionals learn from teachers and educators who use digital technology in the classroom?

• how can the archives and education professions exchange good practice and ideas?

We are inviting 30 minute presentations focusing on practical experiences and case studies around these topics. If you are interested please email Maria Castrillo, ALES training officer (m.castrillo@nls.uk), an abstract with an outline of your proposal.

The deadline for submissions is 20th March. Once all submissions have been received a small committee will meet to review them and make a selection.

Kind regards,

Maria Castrillo

ALES Training Officer

http://www.archives.org.uk/about/sections-interest-groups/archives-for-education-and-learning-group-afelg.html

ALES Edition of ARA: Request for articles

The ALES (Archives for Learning and Education Section)  issue of ARC will be published in June 2015. We would like to include a range of articles featuring work undertaken by  archivists throughout the country, in partnership and alone, with funding and on a minimal budget, with pre-school, schools, adults and community groups – and ideally representing work being done in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. We are particularly interested in articles about innovative projects that showcase new approaches to education work.

Please send your proposed article, with images and captions to Emma Peattie (emma.peattie@westlothian.gov.uk) and I will collate and, if necessary, select articles for this edition of ARC. We also have a ALES blog. If we receive large numbers of articles, some of these may be edited for inclusion in the blog. Content needs to be received by me by 2 March 2015 at the latest.

Articles should be between 400 and 800 words and, where possible, images should accompany the text.  As a general guide, 400 words plus an image will fill a page (c.625 words without an image to a page).

Images should have a resolution of no less than 300dpi and in TIFF or JPEG format. Any copyright questions should be  resolved so that we know we can safely reproduce the image (copyright forms can be supplied as required). All images should have a caption, source and acknowledgement.

Guidelines for articles can be found on the ARA's website at http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documents/ARC_Basic_Guidelines_revised_201108.pdf.

Kind Regards

Emma

Emma Peattie

Archivist and Records Manager (Mon-Wed)

Museums Development Officer (Wed-Fri)

Archives and Records Centre

9 Dunlop Square

Deans Industrial Estate

Livingston

EH54 8SB

01506 773772 (Mon-Wed)

01506 776347 (Wed-Fri)

emma.peattie@westlothian.gov.uk

BBC Get Creative: What's the future of education?

 Get Creative is a new, public-facing, year long campaign led by the BBC together with many other partners. It aims to raise the profile of arts, culture and creativity, to highlight their central place in all our lives and to celebrate where they happen all over the nation. We (Cultural Learning Alliance) want to showcase the fantastic power of cultural learning to inspire creativity and innovation. 

We'd love you to be a part of this process too.

http://www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/news.aspx?id=157