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Here’s a few ideas for your 2006 calendar – no particular order or priority or whatever…they have just attracted my attention for some reason or other and…here they are: Wikis, Blogs, RSS and Podcastingbeginning 16 January, 2006The IEEE Education Society’s Online Distinguished Lecture Series will be making its next presentation in mid-January. The presentation is…

Another contribution from Carol Daunt: "Sir John Daniel, President & CEO, The Commonwealth of Learning, Canada addressed the topic: Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: What Will It Take? He first posed the question: Does e-learning fit the bill? In developing countries there are 4 billion people who need education. Can we combine connectivity to learning…

from Carol Daunt – LTUG Executive Officer "Online Educa opened on a cold Berlin day (0 degrees C) with 1860 delegates from 73 countries – including a small contingent of Aussies are here waving the flag for e-Learning downunder. There were 3 opening plenaries:Prof Ricardo Petrella, President of the group from Lisbon, Economist & Political…

EIfEL is going to be in New Zealand in a couple of weeks for e-Portfolio New Zealand – 12 & 13 December at the Auckland University of Technology. The program looks great with a diverse range of international and local speakers – and not too much all packed in so your head starts spinning! Really…

Congratulations to LTUG members from the Queensland Ambulance Service who have just won the Australian Flexible Learning Framework 2005 Australian Training Initiative Award!!! "The QAS’s award winning program is using flexible training options to deliver critical medical training to ambulance offices in regional and rural communities. In 2004 the QAS received funding and support from…

Report from Carol: "The brave new world appeared before I reached Berlin for Online Educa.Just to prove we’re living in a wireless world, I was given a ‘deal’ for 1hour free wireless connection while on the flight from Singapore to Berlin.Great – no more playing in-flight games – now I can check my favourite sites,…

30 November – 2 December 20051700 e-Learning practitioners from over 68 countries will be converging on Berlin over the next week for the 11th Online Educa in Berlin – that’s enormous!!!! Carol Daunt – LTUG’s Executive Officer is organising the inaugural Asia Pacific E-Learning Forum (http://www.learntel.com.au/ap-forum to be held the day prior to the main…

So we handed the BlogTalk conference baton back to Thomas Burg at BlogTalk Downunder (Sydney, May 2005) and here’s the result: BlogTalk Re-Loaded "And yes, it’s true. There will be a next BlogTalk.It’s scheduled for Oct 2-3, 2006.It will be held in Vienna.And yes it’ll be on Social Software beyond weblogs but surely it’ll be…

Engaging after lunch presentation from Grant…power was back on, so that helped things!Grant is a performance psychologist (PhD University WA) – has worked with all sorts of organisations and sports teams! Grant presented on the diagnosis of culture through a mapping tool that uses chaos logic – which produces DNA Raw Data Patterns – great…