It's time to start reflecting on the Plymouth e-Learning Conference for 2009. I'm incredibly tired and slept like a brick last night, but I am also very satisfied at the level of success we achieved with this year's conference. The choice of theme worked well - Crossing Boundaries certainly lived up to its promise, and clearly resonated with most of those present at the event. The choice of keynote speakers was also spot on. Mike Blamires set the scene perfectly with his presentation on change a… Continue

arrive with expectation of play- - we don't provide tools to meet their expectation and they don't use it to full potential.
Wow - children struggled to link cause and effect if the effect was audio.
Time is currency
Children arrive at an experience with a disposition they believe is appropriate
Response to visual stimulation was much more striking - in a green screen environment they were able to infer meaning from the video screen and transpose it into the physical space

Simon says via SKype.… Continue

Cracking blog session at the conference this morning, with too many ideas to shake a stick at. Will blog more later on when I have had time to reflect on things. :-)=

Today I was at the JISC Teaching and Learning Experts Group Meeting in Birmingham.

I always enjoy these meetings as you get a huge wealth of expertise, knowledge and examples to take away with you back to your own institution.

We used Twitter quite a bit today, so much so that the tag #jiscexperts09 became a trending tag on Twitter. I am almost 100% sure that #pelc09 will be a trending tag over the two days of the conference.

Lots of comments, discussions and conversations. Some went off tag… Continue

Laying out the markers for all the exhibitor stands this afternoon and then bringing over all the boxes of conference proceedings, programmes, goodies, etc to start stocking the reception desk. I am hoping that several of our helpers will be on hand later tonight to begin stuffing the delegate folders with all them bits and pieces...