So, what did I go to?
Monday Noon-1pm
Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development Peter Kelly, K Gale, S Wheeler and V Tucker, University of Plymouth
Emergence v design – a case study of an emergent community of practice in a blended learning community in postgraduate education Tim Savage, Trinity College, Dublin
Juxtaposing the personal and the institutional: how, where, when and why do undergraduate students communicate and collaborate online? Sue Timmis, S Barnes and James Gilligan, University of the West of England
Monday 2.30-3.30pm
Content analysis of computer conferencing transcripts – which one should I use? Roisin Donnelly, B Holmes, J Gardner
Mathematical discourse and new media Morten Misfeldt, Danish University of Education
Creativity and collaboration in professional learning communities: some transformative approaches Madeleine Sclater, V Lally
Monday 4pm-5.20pm
Teaching and learning ethics online: lessons from the BioEthics project Linda Baggott le Velle, J Wishart, D Green, A McFarlane, University of Bristol
How do we know if students are learning in Moodle Forums? Claire McAvinia, J Keating, National University of Ireland
The disruptive nature of technology in my own learning Julie Allen, Dublin City University
Student and tutor voices in online learning: celebrating individual disruption while debating structural disruption Maggie Hutchings, University of Bournemouth

Tuesday 10am-11am
How can technology be used for creative expression and learning through pedagogies of the unique and webs of betweenness? Margaret Farren, J Whitehead, Y Crotty
Using serious games for learning in higher education – ‘False Dawn’ or untapped resource? Pauline Roney, Dublin Institute of Technology
Enforced disruption in the use of blogs for sepecific purposes: creative expression, reflection and language learning Liam Murray, Trion Hourigan, University of Limerick
Tuesday 11.30am-12.30pm
Emotions and online activities Kim Issroff
Productive learning supported by ICT – a way of overcoming the grammar of schooling? Berthel Sutter, M Nilsson, B Stille, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Creating and evaluating an online community to assist with curriculum reform Colette Murphy, K Carlisle, J Beggs
Tuesday 2pm-3.30pm
Informal science learning with GPS-enabled PDAs Gill Clough
Handhelds vs teachers and other clashes in the classroom Jocelyn Wishart, Angela McFarlane, University of Bristol
Where is the m in skills for life? Bob Harrison, Toshiba Information Systems UK

Wednesday 9am-10am
Following the actors and the avatars of massively multi-user online role-playing games Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde University, Denmark
‘MobiMissions’: a locative, mobile and collaborative game using cellular networks Lyndsay Grant, S Benford
Sketch-based interfaces to support collaborative conceptual design learning Phebe Mann
Wednesday 10am-11am
Technology: empowering the educational researcher through remote observation Anesa Hosein
Big Brother in the classroom? The use of cameras as communication not surveillance technology Martin Dyke, Alan Harding, University of Southampton
Is there ‘no life’ in Second Life? (Exploring the educational affordance in synthetic worlds) Paul Hollins, University of Bolton
Wednesday 11.30am-12.15pm
Opening up for openlearn: issues in providing open educational resources Andreia
Adapting, adopting and analysing the potential of open educational resources Tina Wilson

I would have preferred to blog about CAL as it was in progress, but the 20-minute slots were not ideal for reflection – they often seemed like a breakneck rush through the subject, sometimes with no time for questions. When I didn’t want to stick with the same strand for an hour, they meant packing up, slipping out and rushing to another lecture theatre; often missing the first couple of slides.

Between sessions there was little chance for blogging, as the coffee breaks were also poster sessions, so I had to be on hand by a poster on both days. Lunchbreaks were short, and I had to rush back to my poster.

In addition, there were no facilities for plugging in and recharging laptops – which meant computer time had to be rationed to avoid running out of power for the afternoon’s strands. Oh, and there was no chat / coffee / break area where you could sit, skip a session and blog.

All in all, then, this was not a conference which encouraged blogging. Gill http://conclave.open.ac.uk/acablog/ and I managed some sketchy live blogging with photos, but more to see if this was possible than to produce lucid and thoughtful notes.

Ira Socol managed some more coherent blogging during the conference http://speedchange.blogspot.com

Jin Tan from the University of Sheffield presented a poster on blogging, and she has since blogged about CAL http://jin-thoughts.blogspot.com/ Steve Bond from the LSE has also posted about the conference http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/clt/?p=225

And, if I read any Greek, I could find out more from this blog http://www.tpe.gr/2007/03/cal07-conference-dublin-ireland.html which links to our group blog.