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.