Well the Leading Learning Conference is over for another year, although the discussions are still going on in the online community.  A couple of quick reflections:

With reference to Game Based Learning, a Ludic epistemology – a theory of play based learning and knowledge, rather than simply engagement when referring to gaming in education.

Workplace rather than workshop learning, since most of our learning occurs on the job and informally, rather than the few times educators get pulled out for PD or go to a conference.  It was nice to see a more self directed approach to PD, with a mentorship component to it.

It was really nice meeting Patricia Glogowski and listening to her presentation “Creating Open Learning Environments with Online Tools: Blogging and Podcasting.”  There was quite a bit of positive feedback that I was hearing from attendees and a buzz about her topic focus on the ESL learner.  (Patricia’s presentation notes)

Rob and I did a presentation titled “Web 2.0 Promises and Potentials” that seemed to go over quite well.  We focused on five shifts :

1.    User Created Content
2.    New Forms of Publishing and Research
3.    Webware vs. Software
4.    Mobile Learning
5.    Openness

The Powerpoint presentation has been posted  on Commun-IT.org