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The iCamp handbook has been recently released. It is a practical guide as to how social software can be used in educational settings, especially in higher education.The handbook addresses in particular practitioners who would like to enhance their online teaching practices with pedagogical activities making use of Web2.0 technologies. You can download the handbook here as PDF or get in contact with any of the iCamp partners for a printed version.

The ED-MEDIA 2008 conference is taking place in Vienna this year. One of the workshops not to be missed is called “How Social is my Personal Learning Environment (PLE)?”

A lot of people working in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning are currently talking about PLEs. But is there a common agreement amongst the experts of what the concept of Personal Learning Environment stands for?

As a joint initiative of the two projects iCamp and Palette we are happy to have a group of international experts together to discuss for approx. 3 hours the recent developments in this area and to have a special focus on the implications that the tendency towards personal environments might have on group collaboration and communities.

We are looking forward to an exciting workshop!

iCamp team members Kai Pata and Sebastian Fiedler contributed to a Symposium titled “Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education” at this year’s Ed-Media conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Additional contributors were Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia, Canada; George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada; Rob Fitzgerald, University of Canberra, Australia; and Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, UK.

Altogether, the symposium was rather well received and spurred some lively discussion.

Brian Lamb published a condensed summary of the session on his Weblog abject learning.