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Myron Agyiri, Lewisham College led this sessionon Embedding mulmedia within the FE curriculum.

Ok, so we talked about a lot of stuff but we were good delegates and came up with three short ideas, so let's cut to the chase and list them.

Our ideas were

* Awarding Bodies need to respond faster to new technology especially Social Media to create relevant qualifications.
* Agencies, learning providers and awarding bodies need to mainstream E-Assesment
* Making LSC funding regime support E-Learnin… Continue

Alison Bown from South West Screen facilitated this short session. Talking about media literacy, working in schools, and how digital literacy effects democracy. After all, debate is moving on line and people can get involved on a community level to self organise.

Alison asked delegate from UK online as asked if the concept of 2 way communication and community representation was being addressed by the organisation. The response was that UK online provide gateway courses so they may be the beginn… Continue

It's time for the BarCamp sessions. That's right we're breaking out! 8 Volunteers have taken on a topic and organised Barcamp discussion tables. 2 x 20 minutes.

It's a way of generate ideas through discussion. The goal is to create bite size ideas to put on a cards to imput into the Digital Manifesto. Some groups were better than others at doing their homework. More soon

Fiona Syrett, leading a session on older people and digital inclusion. There are a lot of people excluded from the services… Continue

Hi all - I'm working with Gary and David and hopefully all of you to do some social reporting at the conference.

I'll come with 3 others from Salford who are community reporters.

I'm testing out this network now to check that we can upload video and would be open to ideas for how to best use this tool for interaction while we are there.

cheers
Mick