May 21, 2007
Announcement Round Up
A quick post to round up a couple of announcements while I listen to the Pop Said (the best of the Darling Buds), which is as much fun to listen to now as it was almost 20 years ago (gulp).
(If you haven't come across the Darling Buds here's a Darling Buds video clip on youTube:
Okay - so here's the announcements: heads up again for the final call for papers for the OpenLearn Conference:
The call for papers is open for the openlearn 2007 conference: researching open content in education. Deadline for submission by short papers (~1000words) is 31st May 2007. The conference will be held 30-31 October 2007 near The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. There will be no charge for attendance with priority for registration given to those responding to the call for papers. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education.
The four main themes are:
- agenda
- Sustainability
- User experience
- Software and tools
Further information can be found at: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007.Forms for submission of papers can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/papers.php and should be emailed to openlearn-conference@open.ac.uk by 31st May 2007.
Second up - I'm doing a talk in the Library ICT Suite on Wednesday (almost as described on the OUseful calendar) on Social Bookmarking - sort of... as well as a quick overview of social bookmarking (in the vein of delicious et al., for anyone who is new to the idea of social bookmarking), I'll also be covering different ways of piping links into display spaces (web pages, Moodle environments, personal portals etc.) and looking at how to bookmark searches and multimedia items, among other things (which may be of interest if you have been to one of my previous SB workshops). The workshop will be run using a partial attention format, and networked computers will be available - though you can still bring a wireless laptop if you prefer.
I'm also getting to go on a couple of jollies, to the Google API/Developers Day in London on May 31st, and also the Yahoo/BBC Backstage hack day:
Feel free to get in touch if you fancy meeting up at either of those (or for a pint after...)
Anyway, back to the Darling Buds... I never did see them play live (I don't think... or the Voice of the Beehive, come to that) though I did once manage to catch both Transvision Vamp and The Primitives on the same bill at Warwick University; and took a hit promoting Daisy Chainsaw a few years later...
Here's all of them in a Splashcastmedia player:
...along with a dodgy goth show, too...
Posted by ajh59 at May 21, 2007 07:39 PM