I attended this conference in Finland last week! With 3 other Glasgow Masterclass teachers and Tom Kane of prescience our video conferencing guru. I was presenting about our video conferencing efforts with De Rank. Talked a bit about blogs too.
I saw a host of other presentations and took a few notes, I intended to write them up, but have not had the time, too many links to follow. So I’ve just pasted my notes below, not very coherent but the links are there.
It was a fantastic trip I took a pile of photos some here.
EuropeanSchools Project in Finland
ECOLEHOME
Thursday
Learning goes Mobile Riitta Vanska NOKIA
screensize
media agnostic
not top down=informal??
project based learning = informal contribute
sharing
info nugget=for the macdonnalds generation don’t really like this term
Collaborative Mobile learning demo
Jurgen Scheilb & Teemu Leinonen, Media Lab University of Art and Desigh Helsinki Interesting
Learning Environments for Progressive Inquiry Research Group
SHARING
learning tool (Director!!)
Saw demo next day, results were not so pretty,tool looks very basic mind map sort of thing.
FLICKr type interface in flash might be more interesting.
Mind you everyone at the conference is doing ‘Mobile learning’ taking photos of presenter’s slides rather than taking notes. Marilyn says info-snaps
Friday
Spring Day in Europe 17th march missed it!
learner constructed learning objects
process not answers
Bottom Up
Saturday
We are limited by network and software for internet projects
Lots of competition for providing project web space Folk looking for sales
Dr. Sheila O. Gersh
this looks interesting as there does not seem to be the same emphasis on relying/organising with partners, could go it alone.
SKYPE