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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Although quietly announced on our developer list last week many of you probably won’t have seen this announcement…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>The Xerte team and project are very pleased to announce the official release of Xerte X available from <a href="http://xerte.org.uk/"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>http://xerte.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>A huge amount of work has gone into this latest release and there are many new features as well as fixes and improvements to existing features.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Once again with this latest release we are sharing comprehensive release notes outlining many of the new features <a href="https://tinyurl.com/xertereleasenotes" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>https://tinyurl.com/xertereleasenotes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Many of the new features and affordances were demonstrated and discussed at our #xerte18 conference in June <a href="https://goo.gl/t1XELV" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>https://goo.gl/t1XELV</span></a> and recordings of some of the sessions are included in those conference pages and delegates at the conference were able to explore and use the special conference release of Xerte X that we made available to conference attendees ahead of anyone else. This release was codenamed Xerte X to celebrate 10 years since the first release of XOT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Do please share your comments via our community site forums, mailing lists and/or social networks and do please share this news with your respective communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>We look forward to seeing and hearing about what you do with this latest release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Also for those interested in the Future Teacher Project please see the following info:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Future Teacher Talk: Working with Rich Media 3 - Video Wednesday 26th September 13:00 GMT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For those of you who have been following our Future Teacher project activities you’ll know that our monthly webinars and free resources have been very popular and feedback has indicated very useful. After the summer break (for the webinars at least) we are now preparing for the third session in the using rich media series this time with the focus on video. Registration as well as all the previous session recordings and resources is now available via our usual online resource at <a href="https://xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?template_id=4">https://xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?template_id=4</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Why it matters: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Video clips can make resources more engaging and explanations infinitely clearer. They can also 'humanise' resources by making the tutor 'present' in the resource. We explore how and where to source videos and how to use them creatively - and inclusively - in teaching and learning. We will also discuss the myriad of tools, techniques and caveats around curating, creating, editing and using video, in its extremely wide variety of forms, productively and effectively. As always, the Future Teacher resources we create will be <b><i>creative commons </i></b>resources that <b><i>you can adapt </i></b>for your own institutional training purposes.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>How you can help: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Contribute </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>your own experience/expertise as a guest presenter. <b>We’d really like to hear from you asap if you are interested in delivering a guest speaker slot during the webinar</b>. If you are please contact us directly via futureteacher @ learningapps.co.uk.<br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Join </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=FUTURETEACHER"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Future teacher mailing list</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> if you haven’t already <b><i>and share</i></b> your own examples and resources of how you use video in your own practice.<br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Take part in the pre session activities </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>- we’ll be releasing three short video clips over the next few weeks. They’ll each have identical core content but we’ll be using different video approaches to communicate it - take part in the discussions and comparisons.<br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Pass on </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>this information to your own networks. <br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Come to the session </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>and - ideally - <b><i>bring a friend</i></b>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>As always, we’d ask you to only sign up to the webinar if you intend to attend on the day - this helps with planning and with purchasing appropriate online capacity. All sessions are recorded and made available through the FutureTeacher mailing list but the real value is participating in a live community with diverse experiences.<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Keep the date:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Hundreds of teachers, lecturers, tutors, trainers etc have contributed to and benefitted from FutureTeacher webinars over the last year. We are currently planning the UK’s Future Teacher conference event at the University of York on 9 Jan 2019. We’d love to meet you and your colleagues face to face - more information to come, but hold the date for now!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>We look forward to seeing you on the 26<sup>th</sup>!<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>Ron, Lilian, Alistair<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#737373'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>