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Once Doctor Who is over, there is little to tempt me away from the computer on a Friday night, so I have been spending some quality time at the conference. While it has taken a few days for people to get stuck in, (perhaps because no-one wants to be the over-eager student at the front of the class whose hand is constantly oscillating to the refrain of "I know the answer!/ I have a question!/ Pick me!!") over the last 24 hours the number of forum messages have obviously reached the tipping point… Continue

Well, I read the papers over the weekend, snatching a few minutes here and there to note my thoughts while trying to deter various offspring from interrupting my flow... with varying levels of success (deja vu - it's post-grad all over again!!) So much food for thought - some great ideas, cautionary tales, even contradictory approaches - but that gels with my experiences in the real world. At the moment the paper that is particularly well-timed is Pru Mitchell's discussion of professional le… Continue

I have a printed and bound set of conference papers in my bag, I've skimmed the abstracts for the first strand and have read Raylee's introductory paper. I have no idea how I shall find time to read all the forum discussions over the next few weeks, but I guess there were no interesting programs scheduled on idiot box anyway :> I'm looking forward to learning with all the conference participants and bouncing ideas around to formulate and refine my own understandings of approaches to digital l… Continue