I had the pleasure of attending the ePortolio Scotland conference, run by JISC Regional Support Centre for Scotland North and East on the 10th September. It was nice to be back in my home town gain but I went mainly to catch up with new developments in the eportfolio and PDP field.
Here are a few personal highlights…
In order to regain a bit of impetus behind my blogging I’m shamelessly nicking the idea of a few other bloggers and producing a weekly digest of some of the things I’ve been working on, discovered or reflected on over the course of the week.
This is the first one.
Martin Weller’s blog, The Ed Techie, was the first technology blog that I followed and he’s a constant stream of intrestingness. His latest post is really valuable for anyone interested in ed-tech generally, but also open educational models specifically. He has done interviews with a number of OU luminaries (Martin Bean, Grainne Conole, Andrew Law and Simon Buckinham-Shum) on the questions of the benefits of technology for learning and interesting issues around openness.
Last week Will , Steve and myself from Netskills… went down to this year’s Eduserv Symposium in London. It was on the theme of The Mobile University and it was a thoroughly enjoyable learning experience.
The slides and videos are
As with most of these things I’ll be coming to different conclusions about how I felt about the JISC 2010 conference for a while but this is how I see it 48 hours after the conference itself. You can catch…
Today the Netskills team are off en masse (pretty much, anyway) to the JISC Conference 2010….
It’s my first big chance to get a feel for JISC as a wider organisation and help with my transition from 5-16 education
Over the last 2 days I’ve been following the backchannel tweets from various events. It’s a great if slightly frustrating way to keep up with goings-on.
I’ve yet to deliver a presentation or workshop where there is an active backchannel and don’t have any planned yet but the thought of it does make by blood run cold rather.
I’ve been reflecting on whether I think the backchannel is a good thing from the presenter and attendees’ point of view.
A suggestion for the rules of Twitter Tag at BETT2010 – comments welcome…
Film Education’s CP3 conference is a routinely excellent occasion and well worth your attention if you are involved in using digital media in education. I’ve blogged about it before….
The last event was in Liverpool (way back in July)
Communities of Practice conference
May 17, 2010 - Comment - By: ChrisThis conference was held on the 12th May at the University for the Arts, London. Here are two separate personal reflections from the event, one from myslef and the other by Lindsay Jordan.