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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
All in all, then, this was not a conference which encouraged blogging. Gill http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/acablog\/<\/a>\u00a0and I managed some sketchy live blogging with photos, but more to see if this was possible than to produce lucid and thoughtful notes.<\/p>\n Ira Socol managed some more coherent blogging during the conference http:\/\/speedchange.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n Jin Tan from the University of Sheffield presented a poster on blogging, and she has since blogged about CAL http:\/\/jin-thoughts.blogspot.com\/<\/a>\u00a0Steve Bond from the LSE has also posted about the conference http:\/\/elearning.lse.ac.uk\/blogs\/clt\/?p=225<\/a><\/p>\n