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Sounds of the Bazaar – Live from Educamp09

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

 

EduCamp09

The coming weekend sees the third Educamp conference at Ilmeneu in Germany http://tinyurl.com/cw2tkm . 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 Time, 13.00 BST (check your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/dj4wnq ).

Helen Keegan will be co-hosting the programme with Graham Attwell.
Cristina Costa will be in the chatroom: http://tinyurl.com/67aj94 (no password needed) , and Dirk Stieglitz will be testing out our fabulous new mixing deck!

To listen to the programme just click here http://tinyurl.com/6df6ar 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.

Please allow me to introduce myself!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

hi,

I am Cristina – a Portuguese living in the UK.  I am currently working at the University of Salford as a Learning Technologies Development Officer – whatever that means! -) . I work with academic staff, helping them to develop learning strategies with the help of the web. Blogging is definitely one of the approaches I hope to influence more staff to engage with. Right now I am also a big twitter and have become a fan of edu-webcasts!

I am really excited about being part of this programme, as it means to connect to people from all around Europe (and hopefully beyond :-) ) ,  get to know more about what is being done in your part of the world, and collaboratively learn to excel.  I am sure we will learn a lot with each other.

Hopefully I will be able to contribute with some useful ideas too.  Using to web to teach and to learn may seem a little bit overwhelming at the beginning, but after we start to get to grips with it, we will enjoy what it has to offer us. I come from a non-technical background (languages and literatures) and still I have been able to use the web to communicate, share and even create in a non technical way. It has helped me immensely in my training as an educator. I must confess that I have even learned more from my online connections/networks/communities than I have from the formal training I have undertaken. When I have questions I ask, and I always find at least one soul who is willing to help me. ;-) Hence, the title of my space here: Sharing to learn and Learning to share – I not only share what I know; I also share what I don’t yet know. We all benefit from others’ questions and answers, I guess! ;-)

And that’s the beauty of the connected world! Online I have learned a lot in many ways and from different sources. Consequently I have been able to mentor my students and staff to do the same. Reaching out to others who share similar interests has made this easier. However, I feel I still have a long way to go. Don’t we always?!

I look forward to starting communicating and learning with you all. I am sure that together we will be able to work on the issues that interest us in a more relevant and supportive way.

So, let’s get started! ;-)