BarCampWales?
23-August-2005
"So, who's up for BarCampUK? We need a venue. A date. Wifi. Maybe some T-shirts. And a bunch of geeks who want to just get together and throw ideas around."
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Seems a cool idea. and nice to seed in the comments lots of people (well 2 or 3) want to have it in Wales. wales could be in the process of becoming an Open Source centre. How about a Wales Open Source BarCampWales? Anyone offering to organise it?
Back in the office....
07-February-2005
Nice to be back with some connectivity. In Portugal had nothing (or next to nothing). faro airport did advertise a wireless network but it was broken.Then in Bristol at the Joint information services Committee (JISC) of the UK universities. You would think I might get a connection. But no. Firewalled by the University of Bristol. And then back here - fighting against 147 emails - just finished and back to the blog.
I wrote this on a plane. It is for my monthly column in the excellent Seren newspaper for Wales. Not anything to do with educational technology but I bit of variety never goes amiss in a blog - or so I think.
Had a terrible job sending it. Just one computer on line in the hotel (more about that place in a future entry) - and that one did not allow for attachments and had to keep sticking one Euro coins in the slot to make it work. To hit the deadline for the article. I had to copy it form my laptop onto a nasty email client.
Technology, learning and politics
02-April-2004
This entry is from my monthly column in the Welsh socialist newspaper, Seren.
Its Friday afternoon, its spring at last and best of all Werder Bremen are striding towards winning the Bundesliga. But I've got a stack of work to do before I can go home and I promised the editor I'd post him my column today. Seem to remember in my head, he sent us an email a couple of weeks ago saying he was producing a special edition on what socialism might mean in Wales. Seems a cool idea but hard to dream up from sunny Bremen.
So I thought I might write a little about technology and socialism. In my spare time I'm a researcher on something like technology, work and learning. And so I got invited to London ten days ago for a conference on just this subject. The conference was at the Institute of Education in the University of London. I always get mixed feelings going o these events. Firstly I'm flattered they asked me - me with my BA from Swansea amongst all these learned professors and doctors. Then while I struggle to understand what they are all talking about I wonder why the hell I came. Then I get angry that these people seem so far away from the real world.
But in this case I stuck with it and learned a lot. The people at the meeting were from all over - with researchers from the USA as well as from different countries in Europe. Most of them were engaged with an idea called activity theory.
