Ewan McIntosh has just skyped me and invited me to take part in the K12 conference Fireside Chat, a warm-up for the K12 Online Conference Week 2 . Lots of participants in the room: Will Richardson, Darren Kuropatwa, Cheryl Oakes, Julie Lindsay, Dave Cormier and many other great bloggers and social tool users. A celebration … Read more
During the FLNW trip, the participants’ adjusting to each other and interaction triggered different reactions, which, as I see it, depend on a number of factors such as our different backgrounds, awareness of the other or lack of it, experience in similar situations, previous and/or future expectations, the importance given to certain contexts, the number … Read more
Interesting news for language teachers in an article which has just been published on the SiliconRepublic.com, an Irish Technology News Service. “Enovation has emerged as the sole IT provider for a prestigious EU-wide project that will see universities deploy language courses by mobile devices like phones, iPods and PDAs. The project, entitled ‘Europodians’, involves working … Read more
Just back home, exhausted and jet-lagged but extremely happy to have integrated the 10-day FLNW unconference in New Zealand. Unlike regular conferences, during which presenters pour their words to an audience , the unconference or open space conference boosts the energy by increasing contact and contributions from participants and encourages interaction and connections. We moved … Read more
Check out Future Learning Environment, a web-based learning environment being developed by the Learning Environments for Progressive Inquiry Research Group from UIAH Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki and led by Teemu Leinonen, whom I met during the FLNW unconference. FLE3 is an open source and free server software for computer supported collaborative … Read more