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weblogging for beginners August 29, 2006

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weblogging is easy. yes. but actually it takes more time than I expected. after hosting my weblog for a while at wordpress I decided to move it over to our server at the Centre for Social Innovation. Thanks to my colleges Erwin and Sebastian we managed to install it here and to arrange to template more or less according to the one that I previously used. Since there has been an update on the template however I cannot arrange the sidebar widgets the way I want it.

Overall, the whole issue triggered some important questions that are relevant for our research project iCamp. We plan to use weblogs for a cross-cultural collaboration experiment with participants from four different countries across Europe. We assume that most of the participants (facilitators as well as students) are not familiar with weblogs. The subject to be covered is “research methods in social sciences”. So some of the questions that we are facing are:

- how long will it take for participants to get used to the use of weblogs?

- how many other tools should we introduce to them (as weblogs are only part of the whole setting)?

- how much guidance and support will be necessary?

- etc, etc.

So overall I think that using weblog in an educational setting as we envision is not so trivial from a “logistics” and support point of view (leaving aside the pedagogical challenges) as it might sound in the beginning.

conference announcement August 23, 2006

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EARLI Biennial Conference 2007

…EARLI 2007 will provide an opportunity not only to present the results of your recent work, but also to discuss research findings with other scholars. The theme of the conference, Developing Potentials for Learning, has at least two levels of meaning: the growing importance of enriching the potentials of learning and the unidirectional trend of increasing possibilities in educational systems both play an important role in educational research… [Beno Csapo & Csaba Csikos on the Conference Website]

The 12th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI2007) will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from August 28 to September 1, 2007. The deadline for proposal submission is November 30, 2006. Interested parties should have no problem finding a slot among the many conference themes. [Sebastian Fiedler]

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back at work, back to meetings August 22, 2006

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all vacations have to end and always they end too soon. This also happened to me recently and now I found myself back in the office and trapped in one meeting after the other. I did not even take the time yet to upload some of the pictures that we took during our stay in Thailand. But coming up soon…..

At least the paper that I presented there at the eLearning AP2006 conference in Bangkok and that I prepared together with Sebastian Fiedler can already be downloaded from the conference website: http://www.elearning06.com/Proceeding06_Papers.htm

It was also great to meet an old friend of mine, Sylvia Zibuschka, who is currently working in Manila. She managed to come over to Bangkok for a few days and it was great to see here again.