{"id":254,"date":"2009-09-09T08:07:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T08:24:24","slug":"vitae_conference_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2009\/09\/09\/vitae_conference_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitae conference 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I attended the Vitae Researcher Development Conference at the University of Warwick. It was attended by around 400 delegates, all people involved in supporting researchers, but only a handful of librarians were present. The conference was a great opportunity to hear about new developments in researcher support and you&#8217;ll find lots of information about it on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/vitaeconference2009\">web pages<\/a>.<br \/>\nI liked their use of Twitter in the opening plenary. Delegates sat around circular tables to listen to the speakers, each table equipped with a laptop, so we could twitter during the presentations and afterwards during our discussion. All the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Vitae_news\">tweets<\/a> were displayed on the large screens around the room and this gave very quick feedback on any common threads arising from the discussions. I wonder if we could use this technique within a teaching session with students?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3619\/3581010050_59418d9697_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lea Gardens yet again<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/vitaeconference2009\">http:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/vitaeconference2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I attended the Vitae Researcher Development Conference at the University of Warwick. It was attended by around 400 delegates, all people involved in supporting researchers, but only a handful of librarians were present. The conference was a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2009\/09\/09\/vitae_conference_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}