Digital Dialogues

LT2008 snippets

I haven't managed the time to fully review all my notes and papers from the Learning Technologies 2008 conference - so instead, I've captured a few snippets - or classic comments from the presenters - powerful, meaningful and just plain fun!

From George Siemens:
"What happens when the tools of control shift from the educator to the learner?"

"Facebook & Twitter is a philosophy as much as it is a technology - enabling and amplifying"

From Danny Maas
"Can I be charged for flashing my graphic in public?"

Howard Errey introduced us to:
"Enogamy - our family, our tribe - we look after those closest to use - with an inward focus and exogamy - the outward focus beyond are closest circles"
Q: How do we ensure that our learners and our learning networks don't become trapped in enogamy?

From Mark Dashper:
"I like to twiddle around with the knobs too"

From Mark Keough:
"The future is never designed from the past!"

And my personal favourite from the conference is awarded to George Siemens:

"Twitter is like sex...you can't understand what it's for by talking about it, you've just gotta do it...."

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Operation Musashi commences 4th Dec 2008

Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin left Brisbane today

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's fifth Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign to the Southern Oceans to defend whales from the Japanese whaling fleet started today!

"This year's campaign has been named Operation Musashi in reference to the legendary Japanese strategist, Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) known as a great samurai warrior, strategist and tactician and a personal role model and hero to Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd.

Captain Paul Watson. "Our strategy is to prevent whales from being killed, to force the Japanese whalers to spend money on fuel without killing whales.

The name Operation Musashi was chosen to reflect Sea Shepherd's approach of aggressive, yet nonviolent, confrontation and the increasing global awareness of Japan's ongoing illegal whaling activities. However, as with all Sea Shepherd campaigns, all strategies and tactics are designed to avoid any physical injury to the whalers. Musashi's Book of Five Rings included the approach of the Twofold Way of Pen and Sword. The society adopted a campaign logo of the crossed feather pen and katana (sword) under the skull with the imbedded sperm whale and dolphin yin-yang symbol with a Banzai flag background which gives reference to the ecological imperialism that the Japanese whalers are committing against the whales of the Southern Ocean."

"We have a few surprises for the whalers this year," said Sea Shepherd 2nd officer Peter Hammarstedt of Sweden. "We intend to be more aggressive and even more relentless in our interventions. We do not intend to witness the killing of any whales; we intend to make sure no whales are killed on our watch."

Safe sailing Sea Shepherd - save our whales!!!

Learning Technologies 2008 links

Learning Technologies 2008 ( 5 - 7 November)  in Mooloolaba, Queensland,  is now but a distant memory as we hurtle towards Xmas.
If you missed the conference (don't let that happen again!) - here are some of the links to follow the action:

The conference community is still live on Ning - visit it here.

Speaker papers and slides - are mainly available here on the conference website.

Keynote and featured speaker video streams are available here.
(You may need to download something from Microsoft to watch this - and if you're a Mac user, I'm still having trouble!)

There are some podcasts here.

If you want to replay the live blog - it's here.

An aggregation of people attending the conference and blogging is on a public page on my Netvibes account here.

You can search the Twitter feed here.

Flickr photos from conference delegates here.

And the conference wrap up is on Slideshare here.

That should keep you busy for a while... I'll collect some "gems" from my notes and share those shortly!

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