Entries Tagged as ‘Conference’

16 April, 2009

Blackboard World Europe Conference 2009 – Barcelona

I recently returned from the BbWorldEurope09 Conference . The full programme and details can be viewed here:
http://www.bbworld.com/2009/Europe/content.asp?id=1453 
From my own personal point of view, here are  the highlights.

The demonstration of the Open Source e-Learning tool – XERTE – by Gill Fourt and Pat Lockley from The University of Nottingham. Here  is an online tour of the tool. [...]

15 January, 2009

Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference

I attended the ninth annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference on January 8th and 9th. This was my second attendance at the conference, however, this time I presented at one of the sessions along with my colleague.
We presented on a project I am involved with at work which is about lecture and event capture implementation and use [...]

22 September, 2008

AlT-C Leeds 2008 – My Thoughts

For me this was a useful conference to attend, for several reasons. It gave me an opportunity to meet several people from ALT and the put the faces to a lot of names in the learning technologist world.
It was a busy 3 days. I’ve made a few “new” contacts and managed to talk to afew [...]

5 September, 2008

First ALT-C Next Week

My first ever attendance at the ALT-C, hosted at Leeds Uni (my home town). Looking at the programme of activities it is crammed with lots and lots of events I’d like to see, which would prove impossible within the timescales! However to help with this, 3 of my colleagues are attending so we should be able [...]

20 May, 2008

Bb World Europe ‘08

The first Blackboard (Bb) conference event I’ve attended. It was held in Manchester over 3 days (Monday 12th may to Wednesday 14th May) and also coincided with the arrival of over 100.000 Glasgow Rangers fans! I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
Anyway, back to work…. The info for the event from Bb.
Programme and Events.
The vast [...]