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Last week I spent 3 days at the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference . Since I came back, I find myself reflecting on the experience. At the time, it was a whirlwind of enthusiasm, inspiration and tweets . Now that I'm back at the day job, back in reality, I'd like to write down some reflections and share them. For me, PELeCON 2012 was all about making connections. Travel Connections For a start, there was the travelling. Last year, @catherinecronin and I travelled direct from Dublin to Plymouth, at a civilised time of the day. This year, unfortunately, travelling to Plymouth from Galway was a little more complicated. We had to fly to Bristol at the unfortunate hour of 6:40am from Dublin. This meant a stopover in one of the Dublin Airport Hotels, after a bus journey from Galway to Dublin. We met up with @crumphelen at Dublin airport, ready for the early morning flight. Once we arrived in Bristol, we got a bus to Bristol Mead train station, then a two hour journey by train to...

Tweet Over the last three days I have been immersed in the very special conference that is PELeCON 2012 . The theme this year was Create, Connect, Collaborate, and that is certainly what was achieved over the three days. The annual conference in Plymouth, organised by Steve Wheeler ( @timbuckteeth , @stevewheeler ), is well worth the long travel. It's also an event that can be enjoyed virtually, because the participants are so active on social media and, this year, all sessions were live-streamed. More thoughts on the conference are to follow. I presented yesterday (Friday) on our initial attempts to evaluated the longer-term impact of our Learning Technologies module (#cel263). While more in-depth analysis is needed, initial results from a survey of our alumni are very positive. In particular, we do seem to be affecting a change in culture, with the creation of technology champions within the disciplines. Here's the prezi from yesterday. I already tweeted the link yesterday mo...

Hi folks Looking forward to seeing a range of NUI Galway-related submissions at EdTech2012: Digital Literacies for Life , NUI Maynooth from May 31st to June 1st. The call for paper has been extended to 7 April. The EdTech organsisers are particularly keen to hear about interesting practitioner initiatives (and any lessons learned) that can be shared amongst the EdTech participants at the conference and online via http://ilta.net/ Submission guidelines and abstract links are available from here . As an incentive, all accepted abstracts and papers will be included in a new ISBN eLearning journal being launched in October 2012. Go for it! Paul