Ed-Media 2008 Conference update: Tuesday

Created by Catherine Howell (La Trobe University) on July 1, 2008

Greetings from Vienna, where I'm attending this year's Ed-Media meeting. The conference is being held in possibly the ugliest building in this beautiful city of Vienna - but the surroundings are fabulous, the weather warm, and there is a good buzz among the throng of delegates. There have been various administrative hurdles to overcome (I've overheard several conversations muttering about lengthy queues, especially at registration this morning) - in particular, our Pathfinder Cluster symposium on embedding e-learning, which was supposed to be a two-hour event, was unfortunately carved up into two separate sessions with a coffee break in between. We eventually managed to rearrange this, thankfully, so at least all the presentations from the five participating institutions (Brunel, London South Bank, Reading, Cambridge, and the Open University) are all grouped together.

Twitter has been overloaded whenever I've tried to log on, so I haven't been able to send any conference tweets, but the wireless access seems to be working pretty smoothly in the venue, so I'll try again later. I'm looking forward to attending this evening's reception, to be held in imposing surrounds of the Town Hall.

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		Ed-Media 2008 Conference update: Tuesday Created by Catherine Howell (La Trobe University) on July 1, 2008 Greetings from Vienna, where I'm attending this year's Ed-Media meeting. The conference is being held in possibly the ugliest building in this beautiful city of Vienna - but the surroundings are fabulous, the weather warm, and there is a good buzz among the throng of delegates. There have been various administrative hurdles to overcome (I've overheard several conversations muttering about lengthy queues, especially at registration this morning) - in particular, our Pathfinder Cluster symposium on embedding e-learning, which was supposed to be a two-hour event, was unfortunately carved up into two separate sessions with a coffee break in between. We eventually managed to rearrange this, thankfully, so at least all the presentations from the five participating institutions (Brunel, London South Bank, Reading, Cambridge, and the Open University) are all grouped together. Twitter has been overloaded whenever I've tried to log on, so I haven't been able to send any conference tweets, but the wireless access seems to be working pretty smoothly in the venue, so I'll try again later. I'm looking forward to attending this evening's reception, to be held in imposing surrounds of the Town Hall. conference \| E-Learning \| ed-media 2008 \| edmedia08 \| Events Catherine's blog Login or register to post comments 375 reads
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