Networks, Communities & Learning: Show that you Share!

Organised by the Bazaar project and IVLOS, the Institute of Education of Utrecht University

Download the conference flyer here 
Visit the wiki for more information about travel and accommodation

14 December 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands
9:30 - 16:00, Boothzaal, Utrecht University Library on the University Campus de Uithof, Heidelberglaan 3

Conference Objectives

• To provide a space for participant-driven discussion and debate
• To promote critical enquiry and discourse
• To allow for the presentation of ideas in progress
• To provide access to peer expertise and opinion

Amongst other activities the project is organising a series of  seminars on key and emergent issues in Open Source and Open Content f or learning.
These seminars are intend as explorative and participative events and to raise issues for future policy and funding by the European Commission and national Member States.

The first of the seminars – entitled ‘Hey Dude, Where’s my Data?‘ was held in Barcelona in  October 2006.

We would like to invite you to the second of  the seminars – ‘Social software and web 2: a challenge to the future of schooling?‘ The seminar will be held in Athens on Friday 27 April 2007, hosted by Ergon KEK, and will take place between 10:30 and 17:00.

We have set up a wiki to support the seminar - http://wiki.bazaar.org/index.php/Seminars

With the success of Wikipedia, Open Content has become a popular concept for publishing any kind of creative work like texts or images and allowing to copy and to modify them by anyone. The Bazaar team offers a workshop about Open Content and IPR-handling at the EduMedia conference in Salzburg, Austria, the 16th April  of 2007. In this workshop we try to explore the new opportunities offered by Open Content in combination with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for blended and distance learning.

More information about the workshop and the EduMedia conference can be found at the EduMedia web site: http://edumedia.salzburgresearch.at/

Amongst other activities, the Bazaar project is organising a series of seminars on key
and emergent issues in Open Source and Open Content for learning.

These seminars intend to be explorative and participative events and to raise issues for future policy and funding by the European Commission and national Member States.

The first of these seminars – entitled ‘Hey Dude, Where’s My Data?‘ was held in Barcelona on Wednesday 25 October 2006 and was hosted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

One of the participants wrote several blogs about the seminar, which are posted here: www.ictlogy.net

Today The Bazaar launches new functionality to all Stalls. We have implemented a new component for organising online meetings.

The new component has the following functionality:

• Simple meeting scheduler
• Allow access to all Bazaar members or your Stall members only
• High performance chat-service
• Seperate notepad for writing notes during the meeting
• Clear meeting transscripts in html and txt

Stall-holders: To add 'online meetings' to your Stall, create a new page using the 'chatbox' template.
Bazaar-members: You can testdrive 'online meetings' in the Demo Stall.