Category Archives: e-learning 2.0

Online conference on Innovation in Training Practice

6 August 2009 – 6:21 pm

Last year Pontydysgu organised the first online conference on the training of trainers as part of our work with the Network for Trainers in Europe. Some seventy participants joined the conference from twenty-six different countries.
This year on 9 and 10 November we are organising a follow up conference on “Innovation in Training Practice.” The conference [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Eurotrainer2, Innovation, Wales Wide Web, teaching and learning, trainers, ttplus | Tagged | Comments Off

Tensions in PLE development

28 July 2009 – 1:59 pm

It is heartening to see the increasing interest in Personal Learning Environments. Indeed, in terms of research into Technology Enhanced Learning, it is probably not going too far to say that PLEs have now mainstreamed.
However, with increasing research, and especially as developers and practitioners move towards implementing PLEs – or rather implementing an approach to [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Competence Development, Mature, PLEs, Wales Wide Web, social software, teaching and learning | Tagged | Comments Off

Twitter experts on Personal Learning Environments

23 July 2009 – 2:44 pm

I am in Leicester in the UK at a “Personal Learning Environment Expert Workshop organised by the EU ROLE project.
In one group activity this morning they asked us to discuss three questions. I twittered the questions and was surprised by the number of replies i received. So I though I would share with you your [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Mature, PLEs, Wales Wide Web | Tagged | Comments Off

Thoughts from the Open Source Schools Conference

21 July 2009 – 12:57 pm

I had an excellent time yesterday at the UK Becta sponsored Open Source Schools unconference.
As always with Open Source events, the energy and enthusiasm of participants was encouraging.
But this was not just an event about Open Source. It was about how we can make creative use technologies to promote and support explorative learning. My keynote [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Wales Wide Web, mobile learning, teaching and learning | Tagged | Comments Off

Appropriating technologies for contextual knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning Environment

15 July 2009 – 12:07 pm

Along with John Cook and Andrew Ravenscroft from London Metropoliatn University, I have submitted a paper to the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009) to be held in Crete in September. Our paper, entitled ‘Appropriating technologies for contextual knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning Environments’, looks at the potential of what we call a [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Mature, Open Learning, Reflection, Social networking, Wales Wide Web, mobile learning, teaching and learning | Tagged | Comments Off

#falt09

13 July 2009 – 3:33 pm

Yes, F-Alt is back by popular demand. F-ALT is a fringe event organised to coincide with the annual UK Association for Learning Technology annual conference. This Year ALT-C will be back in sunny Manchester!
As the F-Alt09 wiki says: “Spurred on by the fantastic success of F-ALT 08, we’re looking forward to an even more fabulous [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in #falt09, Events, Wales Wide Web | Tagged | Comments Off

More on online conferencing

10 July 2009 – 12:28 pm

Yesterday we held the first of a series of online conferences for the Jisc SSBR project which supports the 40 odd projects presently being funded under the Jisc Institutional Innovation programme.
We gad about 70 attending the confernce which used Elluminate as the main platform. I have organised and participated in a lot of on-line events [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Innovation, Open Learning, Wales Wide Web, ssbr0709 | Tagged | Comments Off

Reshaping our practice

8 July 2009 – 10:33 am

Yesterday I received a message from Miles Berry reminding me I had agreed to deliver a keynote at the Open Source Schools conference in Nottingham on 20 June (have to admit it had slipped my mind!). So I searched the web to dig out what the conference was all about and arrived at the conference [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Communities of Practice, Knowledge development, Wales Wide Web, teaching and learning | Tagged | Comments Off

A day of internet radio goodness

7 July 2009 – 12:14 pm

This Thursday features a day of LIVE internet radio to support the Jisc Institutional Innovation programme online conference on Institutional Impact.
We will be broadcasting four programmes during the day.

The Morning Programme
The morning programme starts at 10.00 CET (9.00 UK Summer Time) and will run until 1215 CET. The will feature music and chat. [...]

By Graham Attwell | Also posted in Audio, Mature, Sounds of the Bazaar, Wales Wide Web, podcasting | Tagged | Comments Off

Portlets and Widgets

29 June 2009 – 4:47 pm

June is the month of meetings and i seem to have been in meetinsg for ever. Just a short few hours break before the next ones start so time for a quick bog entry.
This morning I received an email from Effie Law from the University of Leicester, UK/ ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
“Dear Graham,” she said, “I [...]

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