TACCLE partner Graham Attwell has been publishing some very interesting articles on his blog on  ‘rethinking e-Portfolio and Personal Learning Environments’.
"One of the problems in Technology Enhanced Education" Graham writes "is that new media are very different from traditional paper and book based media. And as Friesen and Hug (2009) argue that “the practices and institutions of education need to be understood in a frame of reference that is mediatic: “as a part of a media-ecological configuration of technologies specific to a particular age or era.” This configuration, they say, is one in which print has been dominant. They quote McLuhan who has described the role of the school specifically as the “custodian of print culture” (1962) It provides, he says, a socially sanctioned “civil defense against media fallout”  – against threatening changes in the mediatic environs." Read more: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2010/03/using-media-for-e-portfolios-and-personal-learning-envisornments/

The research project “Learning 2.0 – the Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe” was launched by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in collaboration with the European Commission Directorate General Education and culture (DG EAC) at the beginning of 2008. The project aims to gather evidence on the take up of social computing by European Education and Training (E&T) institutions, to understand its impact on innovations in educational practice and its potential for a more inclusive European knowledge society, and to identify challenges and bottlenecks so as to devise policy options for Europe decision makers.

From December 2 until December 4, 2009 the 15th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training was held in Berlin. ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors. More than 400 speakers from 38 countries shared their knowledge and experiences in 85 parallel sessions, as well as forums, workshops, seminars, plenaries and The ONLINE EDUCA Debate.

2078 delegates from 92 countries convened this year’s conference in Berlin. Among those 2078 delegates were 2 partners of the TACCLE project: Graham Attwell (Pontydysgu) and Koen DePryck (CVO Antwerpen-Zuid). They took the opportunity of promoting TACCLE and sharing experience on e-learning with other attendees.