We’re now able to share the final program for the Aveiro venue. Click here to see all the sessions, chairs, papers and its presenters.
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How will you introduce yourself at #pleconf? Time to get creative!
Attending a conference in 2012 is no longer the big unknown it used to be.
The conference scenario in 1997? You would travel by yourself to an unfamiliar destination, to meet a group of strangers with whom you would be locked into conference rooms for several days, listening to the same speakers. If socially adept, you might have broken the ice with the person sitting next to you, with a nod. Or by talking to the person accidentally seated next to you over lunch, or at the conference dinner. If you happened to have enough in common, you might have exchanged business cards, and post-conference you might email. If very geeky, you might have joined the same email list.
Fast-forward 15 years and it is a totally different experience. Connecting now happens up front! Many conferences set up their own sites to enable connections, or use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or other social media. And if the conference organisers don’t set this up, then a small group of active participants will! You actively search out those people who share your interests and ensure you meet up on arrival. And once these connections have been made, on Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, Facebook and more, people immediately become lasting nodes in each other’s networks.
Of course the PLE Conference has always begun this process early. This year the #pleconf hashtag was coined back in December. And participants can now log on to SAPO Campus and create their social hub there (as easy as logging in with your Twitter account), and begin collecting the all-important badges! So we will all get to know each other well before arriving in Aveiro or Melbourne.
Transitioning from digital to face-to-face!
However, although we know each other’s digital identities, a little work will still need to be done to transition from the digital to face-to-face. Even if someone’s profile picture is a picture of themselves, it can sometimes still be difficult to put a name to that picture.
So, it will be up to you to help people recognise you, at the conference, by making a name badge. Be constructive, be creative, be clever. A pun on your avatar picture? A play on your Twitter name? This is a great tradition set at the first PLE Conference in Barcelona in 2010, and previous contestants have set a very high standard! Take inspiration from the images on this page. And yes, of course there will be virtual badges to be won for the most creative or outrageous name badges! After all, what is more personal than how you introduce yourself? 🙂
PLE Conference Badges, a gallery on Flickr.
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The Aveiro venue scenario…
We thought a lot about the physical spaces to use for the Aveiro venue of the PLE Conference. Spaces can help to boost informality and participation. So… we need informal spaces where people will be able to configure the room, draw, build and interact!
And the best place for that in the University of Aveiro is… “catacumbas”, the main space for our colleagues of Design!
Catacumbas | University of Aveiro from danizep on Vimeo.
Our great thanks to Álvaro Sousa and Helena Barbosa for allowing us to use these facilities for the PLE Conference! And a huge thanks do Daniel Rodrigues for producing this video… just for us!
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Accommodation in University residences for July, 13th
We are glad to announce that we will have some rooms available in the University residences for Friday – July, 13th.
If you have limited travel options and you need to stay that night in Aveiro, hurry up – we only have 12 rooms!
You can start your registration and select the accommodation options here.
We hope to see you soon.
The PLE Conference Organizing Committee
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Update: Early bird registration for authors
Dear authors,
We have a small delay on getting feedback from reviewers. It’s a hard time of the academic year for most of us and we do understand that reviewers are doing their best. We will try to have this task finished during this week.
Any author will be able to do the early bird registration until 2 days after the final result communication.
See you soon!
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The ROLE SDK – Widget Development for Responsive Open Learning Environments – Workshop at the PLE Conference
Join us on July 11 for a pre-conference workshop on widget development. Participation is included in the PLE Conference fee.
In this hands-on workshop we will introduce, demonstrate and actively work with the ROLE SDK in terms of usage, design, and concrete development.
You will be given the opportunity to play with the ROLE SDK, use ROLE technologies and learn how to implement ideas under the guidance of ROLE developers.
More information is available at http://rolews.fit.fraunhofer.de
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Kerstin Schmidt and Maren Scheffel
Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
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PLE Conference – Programme Draft Melbourne
We’re now able to share the programme draft for the Melbourne venue of the PLE Conference. Papers are still under review but here are the main sessions.
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Build your Responsive Open Learning Environment (ROLE) – Workshop at the PLE Conference
Would you like to learn about widgets and how you can build your personalised learning environment with them? Would you like to design your own learning widgets?
Join us in our pre-conference workshop on July 11. Participation is free if you register for the PLE conference.
More details are available here: http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/role/pleconf-workshop
Looking forward to seeing you in Aveiro!
The ROLE organising team
Alexander Mikroyannidis – The Open University, UK
Denis Gillet – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Sylvana Kroop – Centre for Social Innovation ZSI, Austria
Daniel Dahrendorf – IMC Information Multimedia Communication AG, Germany
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PLE Conference programme draft (Aveiro venue)
We’re now able to share the programme draft for the Aveiro venue of the PLE Conference. Papers are still under review but it’s already possible to present the main sessions of the conference.
We may now assure that we’ll have great workshops and session chairs 🙂
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Are you coming to the Aveiro venue?
Then you should take a look at this beautiful video from the University of Aveiro!
A few curiosities about the video:
- 00:20 – the main entrance of the Department of Communication and Arts, the place where we work;
- 00:25 – the SAPO lab at the University, the place where SAPO Campus was born and where we keep working on it;
- 00:50 – one of the rooms from our colleagues of design where we will have the PLE Conference.
