[Air-L] Fwd: EARLI2011 Virtual Conference Now Open

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Forwarded for a colleague -- please send questions to the organizers.  

>     ------ Doorgestuurd bericht
>     Van: "Wegerif, Rupert" <R.B.Wegerif at exeter.ac.uk>
>     Datum: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:30:36 +0200
>     Aan: EARLI <info at earli.org>
>     CC: Tine Coremans <Tine.Coremans at ped.kuleuven.be>,
>     "Laat, Maarten de" <Maarten.deLaat at ou.nl>,
>     "Jeffries-Harris, Mike"
>     <M.J.Jeffries at exeter.ac.uk>, EARLI Conference
>     Exeter 2011 <EARLI at exeter.ac.uk>
>     Onderwerp: EARLI2011 Virtual Conference Now Open
>
>     We are delighted to announce that the EARLI2011
>     Virtual Conference space is now open.
>     Please register at http://elac.ex.ac.uk/earli.
>     Click on register in the opening page to create
>     your own username and password, no need to
>     remember your EARLI numbers.
>     In keeping with the theme of the conference,
>     'Education for a Global Networked Society', this
>     Virtual space is open to all so please pass on
>     this link to any friends and colleagues who might
>     benefit from the community of learning that EARLI
>     provides but will not be at Exeter in the flesh.
>     This is now an opportunity for those who are going
>     to be at Exeter in August to make contact with
>     each other, arrange meetings, prepare events and
>     ask questions.
>
>     The style of the space is influenced by FaceBook.
>     This means you have to actively join groups to be
>     a member of them and it is easy to set up new
>     groups and start new discussion topics. If you
>     have any problems contact Mike Jeffries of the
>     Exeter Local Organising committee who created this
>     space and will help make it work:
>     M.J.Jeffries at exeter.ac.uk
>
>     In May we will be running a number of 'Hot-Seat'
>     events where leading researchers, mostly
>     SIG-invited Key Note speakers, will lead a
>     discussion. These are currently clearly labelled
>     on the right of the opening screen. Please join
>     the groups you are interested in. There are 4
>     events currently showing but more have been agreed
>     and will be appearing in the next few days when
>     all the details are confirmed. If you do not see
>     your SIG group represented or want to start a new
>     topic why not organise your own Hot-Seat?
>
>     These discussion spaces, and others that you
>     create, will continue and allow for preparation of
>     ideas before sessions as well as discussion and
>     reflection after sessions at the conference in the
>     flesh. We hope that this virtual space will
>     thereby widen and deepen the learning experience
>     of the  Exeter EARLI2011 conference, but this of
>     course, like almost everything else in life, all
>     depends on you and your engagement and activity -
>      so please register, join groups and ask
>     questions.
>
>     We look forward to meeting you online
>
>     Rupert Wegerif, Chair of the Exeter EARLI2011
>     conference and
>
>     Maarten de Laat, Chair of the  EARLI2011 Virtual
>     Conference
>
>     ------ Einde van doorgestuurd bericht
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
haythorn at interchange.ubc.ca