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Last Friday (19th June) was our CELT Symposium on the topic Getting Real about Virtual Learning . It was a fantastic day (despite the weather) with about 200 participants and plenty of learning. Twitter at #celt15 Thanks to the twitter team ( @gramcgrath , @marloft , @allaboardHE , @catherinecronin , @rosenidhubhda , @TELtales ) and all the lovely tweeps at the conference, there were almost 1200 #celt15 tweets on Friday alone, and we trended in Ireland for most of the day! The quality of the backchannel was quite amazing. I've created a semi-structured archive of all the comments and pictures using storify, which gives a sense of the day. A beautiful TAGSExplorer visualisation of all the tweets for the hashtag was created by Martin Hawsey's Twitter Archiving Google Sheet (TAGS). From here you can find the top tweeter from the conference ( @iainmacl ) and the top conversationalists ( @worried_teacher and @sharonlflynn ). TAGS also produces a searchable archive of the confere...

Back in September, I welcomed the #cel263 class of 2012 to the Learning Technologies module, as run by the Learning Technologies Team at CELT. Over the next few months we examined a range of technologies in the context of teaching and learning, and each participant was encouraged to complete a project to incorporate a technology into his/her teaching. Five months after our first meeting, we again came together, this time for the annual Learning Technologies Symposium, where each participant in the course gives a 10 minute project presentation. From Storify, read about it as it happened: [ View the story "Learning Technologies Symposium #cel263 2013" on Storify ] Tweet