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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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Support BanglaCymru

April 8th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

Pontydysgu is happy to be a sponsor of BanglaCymru. The charity’s web site explains their aims.

“Bangladesh, according to United Nations statistics is Asia’s poorest country, and more children are born with cleft lip / palate here than in any other part of the world. It’s estimated that five thousand children are born with this condition in Bangladesh annually but only half of them are treated because of lack of funds and medical provision. So many of these are living lives of shame, isolation and scorn mainly due to ignorance and superstition. The operation we offer changes their lives dramatically, not only visually, but also emotionally, socially and economically.

The aim of BanglaCymru is to offer treatment for these poor unfortunate children, to raise awareness about the condition and what can be done to correct it and to offer help in the form of advice, information and treatment in their own locality, especially for those who cannot afford to travel. Our ultimate hope is to create our own self-sufficient and autonomous medical team and establish ‘cleft’ medical centres in outlying areas of Bangladesh.

The medical co-ordinator is able to negotiate the best financial deals when organising the operations. Each operation costs only 100 GBP (130 takas). Not a penny goes on administration, and the only costs are the bank charges and the maintenance of this website.”

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Edupunk – free open online seminar

April 3rd, 2009 by Graham Attwell

Monday 6 April sees the last of our spring series of open online seminars, organised by the Jisc Evolve project together with Educamp Germany.the seminar is at 1800 UK time, 1900 CET.

And appropriately enough, this seminar is on Edupunk, featuring presentations by Steve Wheeler and Martin Ebner.

You can participate by logging into the Elluminate site – just put in your name, no password required.

  • “Edupunk is an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a do it yourself attitude.” (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edupunk)
  • Why and how far students should be involved in the developing process  of courses?
  • Are Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) standard tools for Edupunks?
  • Which limitations do current educational systems increasingly reach and how can those be resolved?
  • How can an individual and self dependent learning be fostered stronger by students?
  • Does e-teaching and e-learning need a pedagogical apprenticeship?

More about the seminar here.

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Enterprise 2.0 – open online seminar today

March 16th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

Today, Monday 16 March, sees the latest in our series of free, open online seminars jointly hosted by the Jisc Evolve project and The German EduCamp network. The seminar will take place on the Elluminate platform at 1800 UK time, 1900 CET.

The guest speakers include Willms Buhse and Pat Parslow. Isn’t that reason enough not to miss it!! 😉

The discussion will focuses on the following sub-topics:

  • How will communication and collaboration change when digital natives are employed in senior positions?
  • Changed knowledge management through chats, Twitter and so on?
  • How and to what extent will blogs, wikis and so on promote the productivity and creativity of employees?
  • Collaboration tools in the social web permit decentralized work. What is the workplace, what are the working places of the future?
  • Where is the limit? How far can the boundaries of classic corporate structure in the sense of Enterprise 2.0 be driven?

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Sounds of the Bazaar live – tomorrow tuesday 10th March

March 9th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

The March edition of Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar will be broadcast live tomorrow, Tuesday 10 March, at 18.00 UK time, 1900 Central European Time.

This is a Sounds Special – being broadcast live from the Jisc Next Generation Technologies in Practice conference in Loughbrough, UK. The programme will be co-presented by Graham Attwell and Josie Fraser and will feature live interviews with George Roberts on Open Space Technology, Mark van Harmelen on Personal Learning Environments, Nicola Whitton and Rosie Jones on the potential of Alternate Reality Games for enhancing teaching and Bob Rotheram on Supporting learning using audio feedback.

You can listen to Sounds of the Bazaar live by going to http://tinyurl.com/6df6ar in your browser. The url should open your MP3 player of choice. And if you would like to join in the fun, Steven Warburton will be in our chatroom at http://tinyurl.com/sounds08.

Just add your name – no password required

We hope you can join us tomorrow

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Careers and the Internet

February 16th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

Today – February 16th – there is a live online seminar on Careers and the internet. The speakers are Mario Grobholz, creative director of the myON-ID Media Corporation, and Steven Warburton from Kings College London  and is open to anyone interested in this topic

The seminar is jointly organised by  EduCamp and the EVOLVE network. Issues to be discussed include:

  • How can we use E-Portfolios and other tools for applying for jobs and building identities?
  • Which risks and opportunities in developing a web identity exist?
  • Privacy 2.0 and digital identities?

This open session will take place in Elluminate at 1800 GMT / 1900 CET (check your time zone here: http://tinyurl.com/cm5xsh ). All are welcome. To access the seminar click here.

More info here http://tinyurl.com/aqldex (scroll down for the English version of the post)

This session will have Mario Grobholz and Steven Warburton as Guest speakers, and is open to anyone interested in this topic. And no password is required to join the online event. Simply add your name to the text box, and click ‘go’

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Fractured identities

February 3rd, 2009 by Graham Attwell

I am speaking at an online seminar at 13.30 CET, 12.30 UK time today as part of the EVO2009 course on Digifolios and Personal Learning Spaces. I’ll be talking about Fractured identities: Digital Identities and Learning. Its an all new presentation – new words, new ideas and even new pictures. The seminar which will take place on the Elluminate platform is open to everyone interested. Just head over to http://tinyurl.com/dae9mx.

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Support the Earthbridges Webcastathon

January 27th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

Earthbridges aims to initiate, enable, and aggregate global community conversations where participants share, collaborate and take action on the issues that will (bring us closer to) make environmental sustainability a reality.
After a successful 24 Hour Webcastathon on Earth Day 2008, the Earthbridges community will be back for a second 24 hour live webcastahon on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. They are looking for interested experts in the field, K20 students/teachers, or anyone with an interest in the environment to help out with this 24 hour live broadcast on the Internet. They also need help lining up guests, creating promotional materials and awareness raising PSAs, and of course moderating hour long blocks of time.
Pontydysgu, through Sounds of the Bazaar, will be supporting the Earthcast. We aren’t quite sure yet how we will be participating but watch this slot for details. Meanwhile if there is anyone in Wales interested in taking part please get in touch. You can find out more about the event on the Earthbridges wiki.

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Sounds of the Bazaar internet radio LIVE today

January 26th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

The first of the new year series of Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar will be broadcast today at 1800 UK time, 1900 Central European Time. The show is another of our Dragons Den Specials and features the Moose and Open Habitat projects. Both projects have been developing and experimenting with Second Life for teaching and learning.

You can listen to the show by going to  http://tinyurl.com/6df6ar in your browser. The url should open your MP3 player of choice. And if you would like to join in the fun, Steven Warburton will be in our chatroom at http://tinyurl.com/sounds08. Just enter your name – there is no need for a password. And you can come on the programme LIVE with your questions and comments – juts skype to Graham Attwell – skype name GrahamAttwell.

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Open learning

January 10th, 2009 by Graham Attwell

My 2009 prediction – open learning. And we are organising a series of online, face to face and blended workshops, seminars and events throughout this year. So many in fact, that webmeister Dirk is busy programming a new events page for this web site.
Over the next few days I will post more details about the different events. But to start off, I have posted details of the JISC Evolve Emerging Mondays seminars, Sounds of The Bazaar and the  ThoughtFest event being held in March in Salford. The seminars are online events, ThoughtFest is a face to face workshop.

PLEs and E-Portfolios – is this the future of education?

    January, 19th 2009, 1900 CET, 1800 UK time.
    Speakers: Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu

    Careers and the Internet – how does Web 2.0 impact on our Online Reputation and Identity

      February, 16th 2009 – 1900 CET, 1800 UK time.
      Speakers: Steven Warburton,

      Enterprise 2.0 – the potential of Social Software for learning in enterprises

        March, 16th 2009 – 1900 CET, 1800 UK time
        Speakers: Timothy Hall, University of Limerick, Ireland

        Edupunk – Free the educational system

        April, 6th 2009 1900 CET, 1800 UK time

        Speakers: Dr. Martin Ebner and Steven Wheeler, University of Plymouth

        ThoughtFest 09

        5-6 March, Salford, Manchester, UK
        Thought Fest is a two-day event being organized by Pontydysgu with the support of the JISC Evolve network and
        the European Mature-IP project.

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