Today was my fourth (2007, 2008/p2, 2009) SOLSTICE conference held here at Edge Hill University, this time in the Faculty of Health building (also the home to SOLSTICE itself). Once again this year I live-tweeted the conference using my @MikeNolanLive account which seemed quite successful - certainly avoided dozens of people unfollowing me! As with … Continue reading SOLSTICE Conference 2010
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Last Thursday was SOLSTICE's fourth - and my third - Annual Conference, held here in Edge Hill University's Faculty of Education. Following last year's epic failure at live blogging, this year I was determined to do things right. Live blogging the event means I don't have to write up anything - you can just read … Continue reading SOLSTICE Conference 2009
Last weekend I attended BarCamp Leeds at Old Broadcasting House. I'm not going to talk about the sessions - I hope to cover that on my personal blog sometime this week, but I was trying out a new Twittering technique. I've said before that one of the best uses of microblogging services like Twitter is … Continue reading Live Tweeting Events
My attempt yesterday to semi-live blog was scuppered by an obscure problem with my laptop so you'll have to survive with my four-day-old memories of the conference! Picking up from where I left off - after welcomes from Mark Flinn and Alison Mackenzie and an introduction from Mark Schofield we went into the first keynote … Continue reading EeePC one; Michael nil
Today I'm at SOLSTICE's third annual conference, subtitled eLearning and Learning Environments for the Future. Mark Schofield introduced the conference: The key aim today is to collectively contribute to the rowing agenda and generation of knowledge at this University and in the international community. I'm going to attempt some semi-live blogging so check back for … Continue reading SOLSTICE Conference 2008
On Friday I attended the SOLSTICE Conference 2007. Some very interesting workshops and talks and I'll go through a couple now. E-mpowerment - estrategies in performing arts Whodathought that performing arts wasn't just about singing and dancing?! Phil Christopher (Edge Hill University) spoke about some of the work they've been doing over there and it … Continue reading SOLSTICE Conference 2007