barbara’s test weblog

Just before the Christmas holidays we had the second EC review of our iCamp project. Same procedure as every year: independent experts get all the documents  (deliverables) from the project that were produced during the year; they spend some sleepless nights before the review to go through all the papers (sorry again for submitting some rather long deliverables ;-)), and have a look at what is otherwise available in terms of prototype etc. and then we all meet and do some ppts to show the work; finally and luckily we also have some discussions;

It is really good to get the opinion of individuals who are not directly involved in the work, but who are experts on the subject and deal with similar questions.

And this time it has been especially pleasant as we have been congratulated on our good work. This review has been a nice finish for 2007 and it should be a good start for 2008.
 
One of the recommendations has been to improve our dissemination strategy and to spread the word about the nice things that we do in our project. So I hope that we will get together with some key people following similar approaches (e.g. the PLE approach) and join forces.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: icampple

Antonio Tapiador, a researcher at the UPM (Spain), who is also working in the iCamp project recently pointed me to the latest release of Flock 1.0. Some of our group have been following the development of this web browser with a special focus on whether this browser would fit for specific educational purposes.

As it calls itself “the social web browser” we have been discussing on how this browser could e.g. support someone in enhancing social networking competencies in the digital world.

I am just familiarizing myself with this new release version of Flock. I had used one of the previous version for a while but then I moved back to my regular web browser. Now I see that it has advanced especially in terms of integrated services. My very first impression is that of some overload. But I have to dedicate a bit more time to it and see if and how I can configure it to my needs and preferences. I will give it a try…

btw. this post is actually edited and uploaded via Flock.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, social web browser

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originally uploaded by barbara k.

for some it only takes a fridge, a marker and a camera:

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Thanks, Joaquín, for pointing me to this inspiring website.

testing for iCamp

I am also testing here. Can you see me yes

how it will look like

this is barbara from vienna

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originally uploaded by sebastian fiedler.

although there was no official best poster award at the EC-TEL06 I am convinced that we would have won the competition with our iCamp tent.

I seem to get comments on this weblog from time to time. I only use it for testing purposes.

So please let me remind you that my weblog moved to a different server. It is now available under:

http://barbarakieslinger.zsi.at

Personal Learning Environments - Live at Edinburgh

My presentation at the PLE workshop at ALT-C in Edinburgh

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Regular readers will know I have been messing with different video formats for the last three or so months. Thsi is the first video presentation I am really pleased with. I think the live recording is much better than trying to reproduce within a studio the adrenelin of speaking live.We are working on a wiki to give access to the full outcomes of the workshop.

In this short talk by Graham Attwell some important issues related with the misleading policy discourse around eLearning and live long learning are addressed. The SCORM imaget hat is provided in this talk is also worth seeing. Thanks Graham!

technorati tags:personal learning environments, live long learning, eLearning

barbarak:::conversation::: has been transfered to:

http://barbarakieslinger.zsi.at/

all vacations have to end and always they end too soon. This also happened to me recently and now I found myself back in the office and trapped in one meeting after the other. I did not even take the time yet to upload some of the pictures that we took during our stay in Thailand. But coming up soon…..

At least the paper that I presented there at the eLearning AP2006 conference in Bangkok and that I prepared together with Sebastian Fiedler can already be downloaded from the conference website: http://www.elearning06.com/Proceeding06_Papers.htm

It was also great to meet an old friend of mine, Sylvia Zibuschka, who is currently working in Manila. She managed to come over to Bangkok for a few days and it was great to see here again.

I will be away on summer vacation for 3 weeks now. First we will spend a few days with some friends at the Bodensee, also called lake Constance, and then we will head to Bangkok for the eLearningAP 2006 conference followed by some nice and relaxing days somewhere in Thailand.

Nice summer to everyone!