Upcoming conferences

September 200625 E-Learning 2006 Atlanta Georgia
26 OLT 2006 Learning on the Move Conference Brisbane Australia
28 Perfecting Performance: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Montreal Canada
29 SSCEL Macon Georgia

October 2006

17 Global Summit 2006: Technology Connected Futures Sydney Australia
22 Conference on Information Technology (CIT) Charlotte NC
25 eChallenges e-2006 Conference & Exhibition Barcelona Spain
25 NEW Building Communities: Strategies for Collaborative Learning Online Orlando Florida
30 Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF4) Ocho Rios Jamaica

November 200601 WCET 18th Annual Conference Portland Oregon
08 The 12th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Orlando Florida
16 NEW Learning 2.0: Informal Learning Online London United Kingdom
16 NEW 2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics – Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software Bonn Germany

December 2006

14 NEW e-Learning International Conference 2006 Bangkok Thailand

January 200708 IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Data Hyderabad India

February 2007

05 NEW Educational Technology Research Symposium Austin Texas
17 e-Learning 2007 Albuquerque New Mexico

April 2007 18 NEW Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning Amman Jordan

June 200711 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning (ICOOL 2007) Penang Malaysia

How the web went world wide

I was catching up with a backlog of blogs to read this evening and found this entry on BBC News from 3 Aug. Did you know it has been 15 years since the web went live.

 ”One key date is 6 August 1991 – the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it.”

Could we live without it now?

Read more…

LAMS

The First International LAMS Conference: Designing the Future of Learning
6-8 December 2006
The Conservatorium, Sydney CBD, Australia
http://lamsfoundation.org/lams2006/index.htm

The LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) conference follows the
ASCILITE Conference ( http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney06/ which
is also being held at the same venue earlier in the week (3-6 December
2006).

HERDSA 2007

The call for contributions for HERDSA 2007 opens 4 December 2006 and closes 23 March 2007.

The conference (8-11 July 2007) will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. A wonderful city of which I want to see more.

The conference theme is “Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship” and  provides higher education practitioners a collegial and collaborative environment in which to explore:

• Theoretical frameworks of learning and teaching in higher education
• Scholarship of learning and teaching 
• How the theory and scholarship translate into a meaningful student experience

Let’s have a big push to get DEANZ well represented at the conference!

Further details are available on http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2007/

‘Teaching English in a Mobile and Networked World’

John Eyles, Symposium Coordinator, warmly invites you to join this one day ‘online event’ being held by EON Foundation on Sunday, September 24th, 2006. It will be an opportunity to share, discuss and invent how best to use digital media to teach English in a mobile and networked world. It is an informal, experimental and practice based symposium for English language professionals and others.

The aim is to enhance teaching and learning.

It is free to join. Please invite your friends and colleagues!

Symposium Events include:

• Live webcasts. Forum discussions with international presenters.
• Developing the concept of a massively multiplayer media rich gaming environment that helps people learn English for international communication, yields practical rewards and at the same time helps solve real world problems.
• Hands on workshops focused on sharing useful tools, classroom tips, learning activities and flexible learning lesson plans that are simple and effective.
• Guest presenters from New Zealand, India, China, Thailand, America, Japan, UK and elsewhere. Topics include, use of audio software, image-based-learning, online learning games, social networking software, internationally linked task based projects, the OECD Core Competencies, community based learning and other ‘hot issues’.
• Playtime – trying out new connectivity tools. Wikis, Blogs, Moodle, Podcasting, video and so on.
• ‘Newbies’ forum: This forum is for questions and answers about the use of elearning and for anyone who would like to try online discussions for the first time.
• Simultaneous link-up with Future of Learning in a Networked World conference visiting NZ.

Visit www.TheLivingClassroom.org

If you have questions, would like to give a presentation, promote a product, host a forum, write an article or be involved in some other way please contact John.