This morning I was pointed by an article in the OLDaily (Stephen Downes) to Gary Woodill’s blog titled Ten Learning Technologies to Transform Training in 2008. Gary lists the technologies that he will attempt to make the focus of his 2008 workshops and webinars. The first that he lists is Technologies of collaboration. Gary thinks that wikis, teamspace software, and computer supported collaborative learning will develop outside the academic settings where it has lived until now.
This struck a chord with me because yesterday we had our first meeting for the year for planning the new round of edna workshops. The focus of the workshops will be personalisation, social networking in education, developing professional identities, e-learning, and collaborative communities.
We are particularly interested in introducing people to the new tool (and the thinking behind it) at me.edu.au and will be running a 3 stranded mini-conference day in at least each of the Australian capital cities. A local keynote speaker will be followed by 3 strands of 3 concurrent sessions with the themes: It’s all about me!; Wild Wide Web; and Practically edna!
Workshops begin with Perth on 28 and 29 March.
The cost to participants will be minimal - just enough to defray catering and a small contribution to venue hire.
These are really boutique style mini-conferences, probably catering for 80 people at most.
During each concurrent session there will be 2 hands-on sessions and a presentation.
More details will be available soon at http://www.edna.edu.au/workshops
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I think that technologies of collaboration are going to be one of the leading technologies that will affect the education system. The idea of social networking in education is what is making me very excited.
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