Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

This is another back-dated blog post. I just got back from a month long vacation...

Uli delivered a successful keynote at the Diverse 2008 at Inholland University, Haarlem, NL on July 2nd, 2008. He covered a wide range of divergence in the media culture from an educational technologist’s point of view. The keynote was well received based on some of the participants’ comments in the party afterwards. Uli and I also delivered two workshops on Concept Maps and Rich Media tools before and after the conference. This great opportunity came to us through connections at Educause.

This is my first time attending the DIVERSE conference. I find the community has a great operational model. It’s very much like an open source community. There is no complicated administration or organizational structure. But yet members manage to share experience, insights and innovations efficiently using all the media tools available on the web: Facebook, Youtube, blogs, wikis, you name it. Everybody is so friendly and language wasn’t a barrier at all. In any case, this was a great conference! Oh, I forgot to mention it was a FUN conference too! Check out their after-conference sailing trip!!! (Uli and I unfortunately had to miss it due to other commitment... :()