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Agnieszka Chrzaszcz :: Weblog :: Social Software workshop March 20, 2007

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Angieszka Chrzaszcz, one of our iCamp team members recently posted her impressions on the Social Software workshop that we organised together with the PROLEARN NoE a few weeks ago in Vienna. See her comment on the following link:
Agnieszka Chrzaszcz :: Weblog :: Social Software workshop

and for those who missed the event, podcast from all presentations are available now on the website: http://tws.prolearn-project.org/programme.html

a keynote for EC-TEL March 12, 2007

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as Erik Duval points out at his weblog we follow a different approach for having an exciting and challenging key note at this year’s EC-TEL’07

Here is Erik’s call for key note:

Here’s a slightly “different” request: we are discussing whom we will invite as keynote speakers. Many excellent suggestions were mentioned in all kinds of conversations. But hey, I believe in the value of openness and transparency: so why don’t you suggest a keynote speaker?!

In practical terms, I suggest that you tag people you would like to see and hear with “ectel07″ on delicious. You can also use delicious to comment on why you would want us to invite this particular person.

Now that we are on the subject, I would also love to invite a “different” kind of keynote this year. It’s a bit hard to explain, but I would basically want someone to talk about how she has used technology to really add value to what she does. This presenter should not necessarily work in the domain of learning, but would inspire us to think about how we can add value in what we try to do…

Maybe an example will make this clearer: I’d love to invite Laurie Anderson to talk about her ideas on the use of technology. For me, Laurie is in essence a storyteller – “the ugly one with the jewels” – and a wonderfully moving storyteller at that. Then she enriches the stories through media and technology (tape-bow violin!, sensor suit!) until the stories become … well … Laurie Anderson Stuff!

If you don’t know Laurie Anderson, then go see her or listen to her (stream her from her web site). I’ve just tagged her with “ectel07″. Please do add your suggestions – more “conventional” keynote proposals are most welcome too !

Symposium at ED-MEDIA 2007 (Vancouver) March 4, 2007

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A special thanks to my college and friend Sebastian Fiedler for coordinating this successful application for a symposium at this year’s ED-MEDIA. Sebastian writes more about this event:

Our symposium titled Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education was accepted for Ed-Media 2007. This is the abstract of our proposal:

Centralized learning management systems still characterize the predominant institutional approach to computational support for teaching and studying in higher education. This approach contrasts sharply with the growing dissemination of decentralized, loosely coupled, and networked tools and services that provide increasingly powerful means to augment a wide variety of activities and practices outside of institutional boundaries. Recently, notions of personal learning environments (PLEs) have been brought forward and discussed as a viable alternative to the centralized approach to technological support for teaching and studying that most educational institutions employ. This symposium brings together a diverse group of international researchers to explore the current demarcation lines, potentials, limitations, and possible developmental paths of centralized, institutional approaches to technology support for teaching and learning on one side, and of networked, loosely-coupled tools and services and their surrounding practices on the other side.

We really assembled a diverse, international group of contributors who will present the following papers in Vancouver in June:

Sebastian Fiedler – Centre for Social Innovation – Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria
Paper: If youth but know, if age but could: the power of timeworn concepts in technological support for teaching and learning

Robert Fitzgerald – Divisions of Communication and Education & Information
University of Canberra, Australia
Paper: Beyond the LMS: What’s the big idea?

Brian Lamb – Office of Learning Technology
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Paper: How will higher education mash it up?

Bryan Alexander – National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, USA
Paper: VLE and Web 2.0: the era of the Great Divide

Scott Wilson & Johnson, M., Griffiths, D., and Liber, O. – Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards
The University of Bolton, United Kingdom
Paper: Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies

Barbara Kieslinger – Centre for Social Innovation – Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria
Paper: Collaborating across national and institutional boundaries in higher education – the decentralized iCamp approach

George Siemens – LearningTechnologies Centre
University of Manitoba, Canada
Paper: Knowledge Deluge – Sense making and understanding in environments of abundance

I am very much looking forward to this event. [Sebastian Fiedler]

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