Trying to catch up for the missed months postings on this blog.

In February I was at the Learntec conference in Karlsruhe. The exhibition itself was pretty dire. Lots of people and lots of stands - but the products all looked much the same. And the only people that seemed to be buying was the German army who were there in force - with people on the stands rushing to greet them as they passed.

Anyway saw a lot of old friends and made some new ones. The official reason I was there was to make a presenation at the international confernce bit of the show on the use of ICT for learning in SMEs. This was based on a project funded by the European Commission's Leonardo programme and coordinated by Knownet.

Soemone has just told me that the slides and video are available on the web so I thought I would post the rl. had ot do a google search to find them - the url is http://ww4299.kw04.de/ltonline2004/videos.php?datumID=2&kategorie=2#

A couple of quick gripes. First is that the format is realplayer which I don't have on my computer so I can't view the video myself. More interesting is the process. Whilst it is very nice to have high quality video of presentations, the effect was that the presentation took place in a very formal setting. Massive hall - largely empty becuas ethere were only 60 or so pople there, raised stage, big lights so I couldn't see the audience etc. Not a stimulating atmosphere for kicking off a discussion! I do wonder iof pproducing the video so much messes up the process of a 'workshop' that it defeats the purpose.

If anyone does view the video please tell me what you think.