Elluminating experience

Just enjoyed an interesting half hour testing out the Elluminate Live! platform in preparation for a panel session I will be doing with Helen Keegan (Salford University) and Nicholas Breakwell (Hibernia College, Dublin) for the Sloan Consortium International Symposium entitled 'Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning'. It will be held on 7-9 May and hosted by Pheonix University, Arizona. The moderator for the session will be Gary Morrison, and my invite to present at the panel is a legacy of last year's EDEN conference in Naples. I spoke then on wikis and social network tools and how they can be used to support nomadic learners. They must have liked it because Gary Morrison wrote about it and then got in touch. Looking forward to it... By the way, I will be speaking at this year's EDEN 2008 conference in Lisbon too - on using blogs for mentoring of student teachers. If you haven't been to one, it's well worth the trip if only for the networking opportunities (people not computers, obviously).

Just started a new e-learning blog on JISC Emerge ('JISC Community Presence') too, which will be an experience. I have many friends already established on this platform, so it's a very nice opportunity to be able to join them all. A lot of this content will be mirrored there in the future. Oh, and vice versa.