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=__The Future of Learning in a Networked World__=


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Otago Polytechnic has initiated an [|open space conference] to discuss The Future of Learning in a Networked World. YOU are invited to join a number of educationalists in face to face as well as online meetings to discuss and document projects, experiences and ideas relating to the theme. The conference is freely open in several locations around New Zealand, starting in Dunedin on September 18 and travelling to Christchurch September 20, Northland September 22, Auckland September 24 and Wellington September 26. The conference is also freely open online at [|http://learningnetworkedworld.blogspot.com] and by tagging your blog posts, photos, audio and video with flnw. This event coincides with the annual meeting of the [|Teach and Learn Online] network being held in Dunedin on September 18, and [|eFest] being held in Wellington September 27.


 * Read the latest on the [|The Future of Learning in a Networked World blog].**


 * Itinerary** (a rough guide - please add other things you'd like to squeeze in, or go to the date and location page to add more detail)

September 18 - 20 = Dunedin September 21 = Christchurch (TANZ) September 22 - 23 = Northland (NorthTec) September 24 - 25 = Waiheke Island September 25 - 26 = Auckland September 27 - 29 = Wellington

TALO SwapMeet 2006 - The annual meeting of the Teach and Learn Online community in Dunedin September 18 - joining the tour. NZ Synchronous Event? [|World of Wearable Art] - Wellington, Thursday 21, Friday 22, Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 September [|ULearn06] - Christchurch, 25-27 September, with pre-conference workshops on 24 September. Design sessions focusing on networked learning tools for the rest of us 1155299781 English for International Communication - Using social networking software in the language classroom - Workshop and Discussion. 24th September. Community Walk map - using the free web service Community Walk and Google Maps to geo-document the conference. Exploring Second Life - options for workshops and sessions in a virtual world
 * Alternative and or coinciding events** (please feel free to add events you wish to run along side the tour, or alternative events we might like to visit)


 * Who's participating?**

[|Stephen Downes] - Canada

Stephen is perhaps best known for his daily research newsletter, OLDaily (short for Online Learning Daily), which reaches thousands of readers across Canada and around the world. His work also includes the development of educational content syndication systems such as Edu_RSS and DLORN along and the design of a digital rights management system for learning resources. Stephen is also frequently to be found the road giving seminars and lectures on the field of online learning, including the notable Buntine Oration delivered in Perth, Australia, in October, 2004.

[|Konrad Glogowski] - Canada

PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His thesis focuses on the use of blogging communities in education. His blog, Blog of Proximal Development, vocalizes his thoughts on this subject and comments on the impact that blogging and blogging communities are having in education.

[|Teemu Leinonen] - Finland

Teemu Leinonen holds over a decade of experience in the field of research and development of web-based learning. His areas of interest and expertise covers design for learning, computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL), online cooperation, learning software design, educational planning and educational politics. Since 1998 Teemu has led [|Learning Environments research group] of the [|Media Lab], University of Art and Design Helsinki. The research group has coordinated research and development projects, funded by The European Commission in the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework, the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES), the Nordic Council of Ministers and the UNESCO. Selected projects: [|MobilED audio wiki]; [|LeMill] - Do it yourself learning resource repository; [|Fle3] Lerning environment for collaborative knowledge building and jamming; [|UNESCO YDC] - Young Dgital Creators Educators' KIT.

[|Stewart Cheifet] - USA

Stewart Cheifet is the Director of Collections for the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco. In this capacity he is responsible for all movies, videos, television programs, music, lectures, radio programs, educational courseware, and software collections. The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet — a new medium with major historical significance — and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the [|Library of Congress] and the [|Smithsonian], we are working to preserve a record for generations to come.

[|Barbara Dieu] - Brazil

Bee is an EFL teacher and coordinator of the Foreign Language Dept at the Franco-Brazilian school in Sao Paulo. She has organized and managed a [|number of international projects online] involving different schools and institutions worldwide. She is also Coordinator of the [|Braz-Tesol EduTech SIG], member of Tesol TAC (Technology Advisory Committee) and belongs to many national and international communities of practice like [|Webheads in Action], [|Cyberlangues], [|Vivência Pedagógica] and [|CiO's em Educação]. Her most recent collaboration is [|Dekita.org], a community of people dedicated to promoting open communication in language learning.

[|Michael Coghlan] - Australia

Michael Coghlan works as an online facilitator for TAFE in South Australia, and the [|eLearning Networks of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework]. His background is in English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching, and he began teaching online in 1997. A founding member of the [|Webheads] community, Michael has [|presented at many national and international conferences], and is a skilled MVP (Multiple Venue Presentation) facilitator – presenting to face to face and online audiences simultaneously. His particular interests are webcasting, the use of web-based [|voice technologies], social software/networked learning, and the impact of the Internet on education and society.

[|Steven Parker] - Australia

Steven Parker works for the Teaching and Learning Resource Unit at the Wollongong Campus of TAFE NSW, Australia. He is an Irish/Australian passionate about network learning, web2.0 and working with and fostering the creativity of students to create and share their own resources, achieve their learning outcomes and form their own personal learning networks. He is currently helping to build online communities and networks of teachers and learners from various trades and occupations. Steven has so far built a Tourism and Hospitality Education Network which supports teachers and trainers in that field to learn and employ Web2.0 technologies in their practice.

Leigh Blackall - New Zealand

Leigh Blackall works for the Otago Polytechnic in Educational Development. He has helped organise this conference and will be tagging, blogging and podcasting along to make sure everyone stays rowdy and stirs up trouble. Leigh is known in the group for his blog [|Teach and Learn Online] and his work developing various resources to help people understand and use more of the socially networked Internet. An advocate for networked learning, holistic learning, life based learning and deschooling, leigh looks to ways of incorporating more of life's everyday experiences into educational practices - or is it the other way round?

[|Rose G] - Australia

Rose has broad experience in the areas of professional development and flexible learning including stints as training manager at [|OTEN], project officer with [|Learnscope] and project manager of the [|Australian Flexible Learning Community]. She is currently consulting as a learning and development specialist to the [|University of Ballarat] and has been an enthusiastic member of [|TALO eGroup] since its inception.

[|Jo Kay] - Australia

Jo works in Educational Technology, providing technical support, professional development and elearning resource development services at the Teaching and Learning Resource Unit, TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute. Her interests include network learning, online education, web culture, digital arts, identity and performance arts. Jo's current research focus is on Web 2.0, Mobile Learning and Virtual worlds and the possibilities these new technologies offer to us all. Check out Jo's [|blog] or [|virtual worlds explorations] for more info on her work.

Sean FitzGerald - Australia

Sean is an independent researcher, consultant and presenter with a passion for emerging technologies and their impact upon society. In recent years his professional focus has been on Web 2.0 technologies and social software and their impact on teaching and learning. He has been involved with many LearnScope and E-learning Networks projects for the [|Australian Flexible Learning Network] supporting educators experimenting with emerging tools and learning models. His current interest is in exploring the potential and impact of 3D virtual worlds, and has been lately spending way to much time and having way too much fun in [|Second Life]! Sean is also co-presenter of the [|Casting the Net Podcast]

Alex Hayes - Australia

[|Alex] works with the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, [|NSW Learnscope Team] ( Sydney ) as a Project Officer. Alex has a varied and extensive education background ( Justice, Welfare, [Dis]Abilities) mixed with an array of [|artistic] pursuits incorporating new and emergent technologies. As a [|m-learning] [|advocate], Alex moblogs his way through [|life] mixing [|lo-fi] conversations, [|flexible learning] co-ordination and associated [|past-times] with [|research] and [|applied] application of [|social] softwares for educational re-purposing. Between times Alex unravels the [|Australian VTE scene] with Stephan Ridgway and composes mixed-leet-poetics for international settings.

[|John Eyles] - New Zealand

(organising the Waiheke Island stop-over on 24th September and part of Auckland meet on 25th)

[|Bronwyn Hegarty] - New Zealand

Bronwyn has been assisting Leigh to organise the event, in particular the Dunedin leg and funding. Her claim to fame is that she taught herself to use a computer on an Apple Classic way back in 1987, was in the first wave of eLearners at OP, and one of the recipients of a [|Flexible Learning Leader in New Zealand (FLLinNZ) award]. Bronwyn now works with Leigh Blackall and Terry Marler as a developer in the Otago Polytechnic Educational Development Centre. Two projects have kept her busy recently: [|online information literacy modules], and [|self-efficacy and staff development in eLearning]. Bronwyn is currently exploring the use of reflective strategies in teacher education as part of a [|Doctorate].

Dawn Coburn - New Zealand

Dawn is a teacher who returned to live in Dunedin seven years ago. In her spare time you will often find her swinging a racquet on a badminton or tennis court. Dawn has various ICT roles at Dunedin College of Education as well as teaching curriculum Technology. She has taught and learned online for many years. Resource creation is a long standing interest. At present Dawn is involved with Bronwyn and others in the development of online learning modules for Information Literacy. Her current doctoral study “Gone Tomorrow?” addresses questions of transmission of culture and identity in relation to artefacts, such as photographs; with especial attention being given to the consequences of technological obsolescence, one child (or no child) families and digitisation.

[|Derek Wenmoth] (keen to assist with the CHCH stop-over - lots to confirm yet) Marg O'Connell (will see you in Wellington from 25th Sept)

Mark Northover - AUT University Mark has been involved in the support of flexible and e-learning for about ten years, and is currently manager of FL services at AUT. He has been a frequent contributor at ASCILITE conferences, and was a [|FLLinNZ] member of the second cohort. He is currently most interested in providing FL systems and opportunities that support teaching staff (with varying degrees of IT literacy) and encourage student collaboration. Mark is helping to organise the Auckland event, which will be held at the AUT city campus on Monday September 25.

[|Stanley Frielick] - New Zealand

Stanley is Director of Flexible Learning at [|NorthTec] (and is also manager of the Flexible Learning Leaders in NZ ([|FLLinNZ]) project for 2006-07). He's been at NorthTec for two years - helping to build (from scratch) an [|infrastructure] and development process for flexible and distributed learning across the [|Northland] region. Previously he was at the [|Centre for Professional Development] at the University of Auckland where he completed a [|PhD] and coordinated the Teaching Learning Research programme. He is originally from South Africa where he had an eclectic career - lecturer in academic development, lecturer in African and Comparative Literature, and English teacher in secondary schools. Stanley has wide-ranging research interests in [|(d)e-learning], [|ecological approaches] to teaching/learning, [|complexity science], and higher education theory. He is organising the Northland leg of the tour and the FLLinNZ meeting with the FLNW group at eFest.

If you are familiar with some of the names on our list, we are confident you know how significant this tour will be. Please contact Leigh Blackall at the Otago Polytechnic to talk about how you would like to assist. leighblackall[AT]gmail[DOT]com Conference tour coordination will be conducted by Otago Polytechnic Educational Development Centre and the Department of Tourism; University of Otago HEDC (Higher Educational Development Centre) and Dunedin College of Education.
 * How can you be involved?**

Background** Leigh Blackall is a member of the Teach and Learn Online eMail list. That list includes over 230 people from around the world who have something to say or do with online education. They organise annual face to face meetings called TALO Swap Meets. Last year's meeting was held in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia. This year's meeting is to be held in Dunedin New Zealand. A few of the TALO members managed to convince Stephen Downes to join them in Dunedin. Brandi Fischer, organiser of eFest heard about this and was hoping Stephen would speak at eFest as well. Leigh agreed to align the TALO Swap Meet dates to a time where it was possible for Stephen to attend efest as well - in return for Brandi paying for Stephen to come to New Zealand and attend the TALO Swap Meet first. With Stephen Downes accepting the invitation to Dunedin, Leigh asked him who in the world would he like to meet face to face most of all to talk about "The Future of Learning in a Networked World". Stephen nominated 3 people, Leigh contacted them, they were available, they nominated a few people, and that is more or less how this list developed. Everyone on this list has accepted the invitation to come to Dunedin pending funding, stay in New Zealand for 10 days, ending in Wellington for eFest - so long as we can cover their expenses. They are charging no fees. Upon confirmation of the list of people, Bronwyn Hegarty and Leigh met with Donald (Otago University) and Dawn Coburn (College of Education) to discuss ways to raise money to pay for their airfares. The Access Grid was highlighted as a project that may offer sponsorship if we use the meeting to test the grid out. Another concept was to turn the 10 day meeting into a road show and offer regional institutions the opportunity to host the guests for a day or two, in return for those institutions paying for 1 or more of the airfares. Recently some Australian projects have expressed interest, but administratively require it to be a formal, rego fee paid conference.. (book work!) Given that the guests are all active bloggers, podcasters and otherwise online self publishers, the tour and discussions will be well documented and recorded as a matter of course. L is about to set up a tour web page, as soon as I have confirmation of at least seed funding for the idea.. I'm hoping FLNinNZ money will be that. So that's where we are up to now. What we need are people from about 4 institutions that can sponsor flights and per diems for 1 or more guests. In return for the sponsorship will be a group visit to your institution to talk with your staff and departments - or what ever you'd prefer - with the group talking about different aspects of the broad topic at each stop over. We ar ehoping that people on this email list will take this concept to the people in their organisation who hold the purse strings and win their interest. From there we should have a teleconference to clarify any outstanding questions and issues. There has recently been a bid from Auckland and Northland for the visitors to go up there and Victoria University and Open Polytechnic are interested in an event in Wellington close to the timing of eFest. The Open Polytechnic is now investigating internally how to fund this.

Budget**
 * **Organisation** || **Comments** || **Confirmed** ||
 * Otago Polytechnic || || $6000 ||
 * Otago Uni HEDC || || $2000 ||
 * Otago Uni Computer Services || || $2000 ||
 * Dunedin College of Ed || || $3000 ||
 * TANZ || || $3000 ||
 * Northland Tech || || $4000 ||
 * John Eyles - EON Foundation || EON can provide Ferry, forum space and refreshments for the Sunday for 10. The venues can host more and ALL are welcome, covering own costs. Wireless broadband, streaming video provided. || ||
 * FLLinNZ || || $3000 ||
 * Auckland Uni of Tech || || $3000 ||
 * Unitec || || $1000 ||
 * **TOTAL** || || **$27000** ||
 * Unitec || || $1000 ||
 * **TOTAL** || || **$27000** ||
 * **TOTAL** || || **$27000** ||


 * **Costs** || **Item descriptions** || **Cost** ||
 * International flights || 1xToronto return=$4049 1xSao Paulo return < $3462.19 1xHelsinki return<$3769 || $11280.19 ||
 * Domestic Flights || Dunedin > Christchurch > Northland (bus $440)> Auckland > Wellington || $9990.03 ||
 * Accommodation || Dunedin 17 Sept $460; Dunedin 18 Sept $600; Dunedin 19 Sept $875; Christchurch 20 Sept $720; Weiheke 23 & 24 Sept $738; Wellington 26-29 Sept $2832 || $6225 ||
 * Tours || Bus to Otakou Marae $220; Gorge Railway || $220 ||
 * Venue || Hutton Theatre $350; || $350 ||
 * Catering || ||  ||
 * **TOTAL** || || **$28065.22** ||