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Excellent account by the excellent Audrey Watters on the really expensive, really disruptive conference populated by really rich and really cool people (well at least that's what they think when they look in the mirror).

Clark's take on the WISE conference in Doha with world leading figures.  By Clarks account, most were living in a dark age of education (at least as far back as the 1990's) and only Gordon Brown had vision and solutions.

Some interesting recordings here. "Changing traditional notions of education"

Article by R Tolley on ePortfolios. There is much here that I disagree with, inasmuch that Tolley seems to be making claims that are now out of date. The fact that many people at a conference came from HE doesn't mean that HE is hijacking anything. There should be a disclaimer note attached to the text too since Tolley is a reseller for an ePortfolio system. That said, the article is worth having in the collection.

In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer.

SOLSTICE involves the use of supported online learning or blended learning designed on sound pedagogic principles and developed as a result of ongoing evaluative research

ascilite conference hub

The cloudscape for ASCILITE09, Auckland NZ.

All the presentations plus extra resources from 2009 Jisc elearning conference

"RecentChangesCamp is an Open Space Technology format unconference focused on wikis and collaborative practices. The conference is named after the "Recent changes" feature that is found in most wikis. Recent Changes Camp follows an unconference model of being free to participants and an Open Space model in having a program that is determined on-site by participants. Check out the session ideas people are thinking about for Boston and Canberra."

"Share your note taking with everyone else at the conference!"--something for WCeLfest2012? Wish I'd thought of it!

Yeah - wish we had! Let's go for it in 2012. Was a complaint that there weren't enough tweets about and I know we all got tied up with making it run. Let's make it a feature.

Handy if we are setting up forms e.g. conferences form to then export into the Calendar.

Interesting post on the price of 'free' and the meaning for educational conferences