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Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE from Educamp

April 14th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

The coming weekend sees the third Educamp conference at Ilmenau in Germany. The Barcamp type conference will focus on Corporate Learning 2.0 and E-learning 2.0 in schools or universities including the use of e-portfolios, digital games and virtual worlds in education or the trends of mobile and micro-learning.

In line with the idea of a BarCamp, everyone is invited to propose their own topics for discussion.

Ilmenau is not the easiest place to get to! And there are many great events being held at the moment. But, if you cannot attend in person, ‘Sounds of the Bazaar’ will be broadcasting a live radio programme from the conference on Saturday 18 April at 1200 Central European Summer Time, 11.00 BST. I’m not quite sure who will be on the programme yet (after all it is a barcamp) but I am sure it is going to be a lot of fun. Helen Keegan will be cohosting the programme, Cristina Costa will be in the chatroom and Dirk Stieglitz will be testing out our fabulous new mixing deck and the two new wireless microphones!

To listen to the programme just click here and the stream will open in your MP3 player of choice. And of course we will release the podcast of the programme as soon as we can.

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