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Last week I flew down to Singapore to give a talk on P2P eLearning at the iX 2006 Conference. Unfortunately, I missed most of the other speakers as my time was limited due to other work commitments, but from what I experienced, it was a well organized and highly attended event. It was also held [...]

Community has been on my mind a lot recently, especially concerning the little EFL/ESL niche in the great big blogosphere we’ve all helped to construct. As Marco reminds us, blogging is a social process, not a technology, so therefore the higher the quality of our conversations in these open, dispersed spaces, the stronger our sense [...]

After an almost four month break, Mark and I have fired up English Conversations again with a few podcasts on Africa. Our hope is that learners of English as a second or foreign language will listen to the recordings of the conversations and use the transcriptions (with links) to learn new expressions, vocab, patterns [...]

I’m headed to the LIU Brooklyn campus next week to give a presentation to Friends World faculty and administration on building electronic learning portfolios using Elgg. I’ll also be running a podcasting workshop and taking part in discussions with administration and faculty on how to best integrate personal learning landscapes into the curriculum.
As Friends World [...]

Gosh, my feed hasn’t been working in Bloglines all week. I guess this happens to most people at some point, but mentally it feels like someone has put a silencer on this blog. I suppose that’s a good thing, for a while anyway. If you are reading this in Bloglines, the connection has obviously been [...]

Upon reading George Siemens latest post, I began wondering why more organizations don’t make greater efforts to promote informal learning amongst their members.  Learners bring with them a whole wealth of previous knowledge and experience. In all educational settings, we miss out on the collective wisdom that arises through conversation, sharing, and discussion when we [...]

e-poche.net as webgraph
Originally uploaded by apc33.
Webgraphs provides a way to view your website as a graph. Aren’t the results beautiful?
Link via Buthania via Stephen Downes

I posted some links to people and resources mentioned in my presentation on Saturday at JALT CALL 2006 in Sapporo. Here are the presentation files (6.9 MB) in pdf form (I couldn’t upload the keynote file for some reason). Thanks to all who participated.
By the way, I thought that the conference was well [...]