I’m heading off to AMTEC 2005 in Calgary next week, so some of my current projects (like the Generic High School) will be on hold for a little while. This weekend, I’ll be spending a bit of time putting together my presentation – Weblog Communities: Emerging Environments for On-line Learning. Here’s the description:
This presentation will demonstrate how personal publishing tools such as weblogs and RSS aggregators provide opportunities for novel learning models beyond the traditional course-based model of online learning. It will demonstrate how weblogs can become loosely affiliated to form ad hoc virtual communities. A variety of learning opportunities presented by these affiliations will be discussed, as well as the importance of open file formats, such as XML, as a means of forming connections between individually created weblogs.
If you are going to be at AMTEC, it would be great to meet up with you – leave a comment here, or drop me a line at robwall AT gmail DOT com.
I will try to blog the proceedings while I am there – I’m not sure if the facilities will have wireless access, so I might just need to take notes and dump them en masse once I get back. There are going to be a lot of great sessions, and three amazing keynote speakers – John Seely Brown, Brent Wilson and Rick Schwier. It should be great!