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Join us at On-Line Educa Berlin

November 28th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

its that time of year again. And next week me, Dirk and Crsitina will be heading off to the InterContinental hotel in Berlin for three days of fun.

And, as you would expect we are organising our own programme around the conference. We are working with Josie, Steve, George, Paul and Joe from Emerge to put together a some unconferencing enents and demos of Emerge projects. Here are some of the events (I will post the times for the project demos as soon as I get confirmation).

Wednesday 3 December – 2030 CET Edubloggers meetup – Ambassador lounge bar  Sorat Hotel Ambassador Berlin, Bayreuther Straße 42 · D-10787 Berlin (Five minutes walk from InterContinental)

Thursday 4 December – 11.00 CET – Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE from the conference.  ICWE stand B54.

If you cannot make it to the conference listen to the programme live – go to http://tinyurl.com/6df6ar in your web browser. The programme will open in your MP3 player of choice.

Thursday 4 December – 19.30 CET – Microblogging debate, Marlene Bar, Intercontinental Hotel

Friday 5 December – 11.00 CET – Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE from the conference.  ICWE stand B54.

Friday 5 December – 13.00 CET – Special Interest Group Lunch on microblogging (SIG lunches), Bellevue Room, InterContinental Hotel

Further Special Interest Group Lunches to be announced.

With the exception of the Special Interest Group lunches all these events are free and open to anyone regardless of whether you have registered at the conference. If you are in Berlin just drop in and find us. Between events you will have a good chance of finding one of us on the Jisc Stand.

To keep in touch with what we are doing follow Graham Attwell, Josie Fraser and Cristina Costa on Twitter. Or join our Sounds of the Baazaar Facebook group.

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3 Responses to “Join us at On-Line Educa Berlin”

  1. Wilfred Rubens says:
    November 29, 2008 at 14:50

    Hi Graham,

    Wednesday evening there is a dinner for OEB-participants, working in Dutch VET. Thursday evening I am organising a Dutch edublog dinner myselves. I trie to attend the SIG lunch on microblogging (Friday).

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    November 28, 2008 at 19:19

    [...] Next week Graham, Dirk and Cristina are heding off to the Online-Educa Berlin conference. We will be working with the good folks from Emerge to organise a series of fringe events. And you are invited. Almost all our events are free, whether or not you are registerd as a delegate. You can get full details on the Wales Wide Web blog. [...]

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