I’m now back in Portsmouth, but am determined to write this before I forget & it ends up in the rather large “draft” set I have. So, we started off with Gwen van der Velden discussing what she, as a Directory of Learning & Teaching Enhancement looks for in a project proposal. Mostly, it made…
Category: Conferences
JISC Next Generation Technologies in Practice – Day 1.
I’m just sitting in my room, listening to the Sounds of the Bazaar broadcasting from the JISC ngtip09 conference. It’s been a useful, if somewhat tiring day. There were a number of things that struck me, in particular the concept of “Critical friends”. This was in particular relationship to funded projects; though I can see…
Day 1: Relive 08
Keynote 1: Edward Castranova Looking Economics in SL – and volume of money involved. Our workshop Seemed to go well; was well worth the time spent setting up all those training accounts. Learning to Walk before you Know your name: Ian Truelove & Graham Hibbert Using OpenSim to let students learn to work within environment…
ALTC2008: Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling got the conference off to a fabulous start with a Keynote. He started from the premise that the hardest time to teach someone is when they think they know. The particular example he used was getting a group of students to select which of a pair of countries had the worst child mortality…
Microblogging: F-ALT
Blogging from the F-ALT session – looking at Microblogging Josie has just explained how F-ALT was born, following a number of twitter conversations with Scott. Andy’s now talking about Twitter users; about 430 delegates have signed up to Crowdvine, but he thinks that only about 40 or so are active Twitterers. Helen’s just discussing her…
Massively Multilearner 08
Conference Website A useful day. This was the second of the MML events I’d attended. Schome Anna Peachey gave an update on the Schome project (which includes more than just SecondLife!) Some useful points – e.g. “Governance” both as learning & real (to work out prim counts, AUP etc). Much of final build (funding now…
Alt-C Thursday am.
One of the best sessions so far this morning… It started out with “Students aren’t prepared for Web 2 technology, are they?” – which highlighted that students were having difficulties using wikis etc., not really because of the technology (though they weren’t as familiar as one might have expected), but due to the fact that…