Visual Communications: from Zoopraxiscope to YouTube
Carol Skyring kicked off Diverse with her keynote about the developments of visual communications: past, present and future. You can watch her keynote online via an Echo360 capture.
Since the invention of the zoopraxiscope in 1879 to the launch of YouTube in 2005, moving images have influenced the way we see the world and have been eagerly embraced by educators. Visual communications are developing at an astounding rate. New devices and new software have the potential …

I like to visit conferences. I love learning new things or approaches during the ‘formal’ sessions, but it’s the informal part of the conference that’s really important for me.  A couple of days of conference for me is one big ‘out-of-the-box-thinking’ exercise. It’s about getting inspired and being creative. And it’s about being able to fully concentrate on that proces, which for me is more difficult when I’m back at work. So when the Diverse 2009 provides a forum where …

Last week I attended the Diverse Conference in Aberystwyth, Wales. Primary mission was to present the project videoreflection and digital portfolio’s we did with the students of the School of Education Amsterdam. Secundary mission was to learn more about how other learning professionals implement video, virtual worlds and other visual educational resources in their education. I talked and listened to a lot of very interesting and inspiring people, and learned a lot. I even walked away with an award! So …

This week I’m attending the Diverse 2009 conference in Aberystwyth, Wales. There will be lot of online coverage of this event. I will be reporting via Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and SURFgroups (Dutch online environment for higher education).  I will update this post when other backchannels are discovered.
Conference wiki and Flipumentaries
The Dutch attendees will report via a wiki in a special “SURFgroep”. We will be shooting ‘Flipumentaries‘ with the Flip camera all week long and of course write about the sessions, …

Morgen vertrek ik richting Aberystwyth University, Wales voor de Diverse 2009 conferentie. De Diverse is een jaarlijkse conferentie over het gebruik van visuele media in het onderwijs. Woensdagmiddag mag ik zelf aan de bak, en vertel ik samen met collega Tom Visscher het verhaal over het gebruik van streaming video in de studieloopbaanbegeleiding van studenten.
Maar wat ga ik nog meer doen? Presentaties en workshops bijwonen en verslag doen voor de conferentiewiki. Mijn voorlopige programma (bron: Diverse 2009 Conference Handbook, pdf, …

In mijn mailbox trof ik de Conference Schedule aan van de Diverse 2009, waar ik van 24 tot met 26 juni aanwezig ben.
Diverse
De Diverse is een jaarlijkse onderwijsconferentie over het toepassen van visuele media in het onderwijs. De 2008 editie werd gehost door INHolland in Haarlem. Ik werd verrast door de vele praktische (internationale-) bijdragen van docenten, studenten en commerciëlen over hun ideeën en toepassingen voor visuele media in het onderwijs.
Het woord unconference kende ik nog niet, maar beschrijft zeker …