Category Archives: Conferences

For the Folks at home: OpenEd09

OpenEd09 was a great conference. Possibly one of the best I have been to. Sharing is very powerful. In Leigh’s circle, people have sought to develop stuff, posted it as a work in progress to find other people working on … Continue reading

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A great conference

This is probably one of the best conferences I have ever been to.  Has a good mix of emergent and formal. Some emergent conference planning principles: Provide minimal paper, and no conference bag. Minimal paper=conference programme in pocket size form. … Continue reading

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Day one: finished presentation

The THEME: OK, getting our teaching resources better, more current, less stress on the teachers who do the writing, having better lives.  OER may help.  What are the questions?  Where thiungs go well, WHAT FACTORS ARE IN PLAY? Afterthoughts Used … Continue reading

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Open Ed Conf 4: summary

This is the final of the four posts on my topic at OpenEd 2009.  Just for the sake of completness. Here is my handout/summary. Summary Notes (Word format) An Approach to the Problems of Personalisation and Context Dependency in Open … Continue reading

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Light at the end of the Tunnel

I’ve wondered seriously whether I need to declare online bankrupcy. Laurence Lessig did it for e-mail. E-mail is not quite my problem. Just a bit too much online stuff, too many frontiers. But I decided it is just the end … Continue reading

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Unconferences again.

Just found the blogging conference in Brisbane. A sort of unconference. Here is a quote from their page of information about format. Adapted from the BloggerCon IV Format by David Winer. This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t … Continue reading

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Setúbal adventure

Last year I was part of the Prato Dialogue – at Florence, before an Infometrics conference at Prato. A wonderful time. There was a picture on the old website before it got blown away. We are next meeting in Setúbal, … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 tools

There was a Comunities of Practice workshop on Friday folowing the CPE conference with Etienne Wenger. He shared a neat new diagram developed with Nancy White and John Smith, addressing the tensions inherent in community life (for example the individual … Continue reading

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CoPs and Bloggers at CPE

Still being very interested in this topic. The chance to present at a conference where there is some understanding of CoP’s was too good an opportunity to miss. CPE 2006. Continuing Professional Education Conference. There were really three threads: recertification … Continue reading

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