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F-Alt Lines

Page history last edited by Graham Attwell 13 years, 8 months ago

I wonder whether some ongoing fringe activity might be interesting for the wider group/network/community (circle your preferred term or add another) that self-identifies as learning technologists, elearning specialist/practitioner, etc. wrt ALT? ALT has an increasingly heavy committee structure, bureaucracy, payroll, events calendar, QA mechanisms, etc. The processes of institutionalisation seem to be creating, to some extent, an ALT for ALT's sake.

There could be a F-ALT line at any formal LT conference: F-ALT lines at OnlineEduca, F-ALT lines at CAL, F-ALT lines at EdMedia, etc

I don't know whether this would piss off the secretariat. But: ALT, wtf?


Should it be renamed 'FALT' (fault) to make it more widely applicable) I think there is a strong FALT contingency at most of the big conferences and that informal discussions in bars organized via this wiki and twitter could work well at any number of events? (DW)

(Thanks George for pointing out this page, thanks Dave for postng all this) We were discussing this on Twitter for Handheld and mLearn this year. Naming convention ideas were starting to get silly, so FALT & falt lines ('lines', I presume, are the actual sessions) seem as good as any to me. Take F to be fringe (or from wtf :) ), and ALT to be 'alternative'.

Next question - can we carry on using this space to communicate & plot? :-) (GW)

Wouldn't it make more sense to have F-Online Educa F-CAL, etc, as in Fringe- Conference? Unless you are trying to create a brand, in which case including ALT could quite reasonably piss off ALT. (Frances Bell)

I don't know. There is an alt key on my keyboard and there is a long tradition of alternative newsgroups that preceded the Association for LT. That said, I wouldn't want to create a brand (GR) 

I'd taken 'alt' to have moved beyond 'ALT' and back to its original 'meaning':
"Alt, an alternative identity on the internet. The creation of an alternative account for any reason including for use as a Sockpuppet. This term is commonly used in, for example, Newgrounds.com." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt

I would hate this to be 'branded' as such. That implies corporate ownership, logos, mission statements...
(and we don't want to turn into Golgafrinchans :o) )

But I take your point Frances re keeping the context of the particular conference to the fore.

Next week sees mLearn - I'm not at that, but is anyone planning fringe happenings (James? :) )? And the week after is HandheldLearning (which I am attending). I would imagine that falt lines would cross from one to the other, with discussions ongoing. Perhaps we should worry less, at the moment, about what it is called and instead concentrate on possible wtf topics? (kt)

Now, how does one start a new page [rtfm, Kath] (kt)

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