Last week I attended the ICALT 2008 Conference in Santander. I have always enjoyed the nice environment of this conference which provides an opportunity for meeting many colleagues (now also friends) working aroud Technology-Enhanced Learning. Some of these friends attended also the LAMS conference in Cádiz, so that we could continue going out after the conference for dinner, etc. We really had fun! I still keep laughing because one of the (many) jokes by Lluis Vicent (U. Ramon Llull) talking about Ernie Ghiglione (LAMS project manager) when being in Cádiz: (for Spanish people) “¿Cuál es el colmo de dedicarse al eLearning? Llamarse “el’Ernie”
My contributions to the conferences have ranged from two full papers (“Supporting Distance Learning Activities and Social Interaction: a Case Study“, “InstanceCollage: a Graphical Tool for the Particularization of Role/group Structures in Pattern-based IMS-LD Collaborative Scripts“) and one short paper (“Social Structures Representations as aid for effective creation and reuse of CSCL scripts according to a problem-solving approach to ID“) to the participation in the workshop “Crafting didactic materials based on IMS LD: from requirements to evaluation” This is the presentation I used in the workshop:
Eloy Villasclaras (from Valladolid) completed the presentation with a demo of webCollage, a new version of Collage which is Web and includes new patterns (not only at the level of the learning flow, but also at the level of activities and resources) of assessment.
