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The autumn schedule

August 26th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

Ok – all you researchers out there – the summer break is coming to an end and the conference season starts tomorrow. So where can you meet up with us this autumn? This is not a comprehensive list but here is a few events Pontydysgu will be attending.
Tomorrow I am speaking about the TTplus project at the EARLI conference in Jyvaskula. And on Thursday 27 August I will be talking about PLEs at the blearning4all project conference in Kuessaare.
From September 8-11 Crsitina and me will be at Alt C in Leeds. We are planning a live radio broadcast on the Tuesday evening.
The 17th or thereabouts I am at the Mupples workshop at the ECTEL conference in the Netherlands.
On the 8th and 9th October we have a workshop on the training of trainers in Wales. And on the 10th I am speaking on PLEs at a conference at the University of Braga in Portugal. On the 5th and 6th November Cristina, Dirk and I are hosting the first online conference on the training of vocational teachers and trainers (you are all invited – more on this soon).
Well – that seems anough to be going on with….hope to see some of you at some of these events.

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One Response to “The autumn schedule”

  1. Andreas says:

    So I wish you good jurneys and the best listeners you can imagine.

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