How can I participate my favourite conference and be elsewhere skiing at the same time? This may be possible soon and my contact management utopia will be realised as well.
The oldest and largest educational technology conference in Finland is called ITK. ITK means "Interaktiivinen Tekniikka Koulutuksessa" or "Interactive Technology in Education".
The ITK 2006 conference just got a face-lift and it will be the first conference in Finland utilising RSS-technologies extensively. (Not fully, the conference speakers could be more active... and companies could promote their products in the exhibition area.) Anyway, a very welcome addition.
Teemu Arina is one of the best known bloggers in Finland. His company is called Dicole and they surely have an interesting RSS-aggregator platform. This platform is running behind the ITK conference service and web-site. Good work, Teemu!
By the way, I am also curious about Moodle and it's newest release with various blogging tools and confidentiality-levels. My university (University of Tampere, including Hypermedia Laboratory ;-) uses it and these new features provide interesting perspectives for research and teaching. It will be great to have a platform that handles both internal and public blogging + related feed-aggregation. Still, your personal blog should belong to yourself and situate outside the Moodle. This will be crucial when you move to another work or organisation! Always ask about your blog provider about the SLA (Service Level Agreement) :-) Let's see what kind of RSS-feed-aggregator Moodle will have.
Currently many groupware and project management applications are starting to provide support for conferencing but also for notifications and follow-up as RSS-feeds. I guess one of the best-known (and original) is Basecamp. With my colleague Milla Roine we just arranged the "Document Management and Workflow Planning " -course and RSS-aggregators seem to have interesting prospects in the future workflow applications. Thank you Matti (Lassila) providing me ideas. Guess what: a single conference may contain tens of different workflows, including the publishing and reviewing workflows! When talking about learning, these workflows should facilitate different learning styles and information gathering tactics. A research and development challenge?!.
Dear international friends, please, let me know if you happen to know good conference (platform) examples where RSS-aggregators and wikis are used for preparation and feedback phases.
Ystävät Vuosien Takaa ITK:ssa, pistäkääpä kommenttia tähän tai muihin blogini juttuihin. Ja nauttikaa konferenssista. Toivottavasti palvelu on Aulangolla entistä parempaa, uuden kylpylän myötä :-p En tosiaan pääse mukaan ITK:hon, hiihto vie miehen Lappiin. Eniten poissaolossani harmittaa (teidän) tuttujen ja esitysten missaaminen ;-) Hyviä keskusteluja ja juhlia ei ole koskaan liikaa :-)
Cheers!
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