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Time to apply!

Ralf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:30:58 +0000

As you might have read already on the “official” ePedagogy Website there is a call for registration for the entrance examination 2010. Maybe it is because Noora, Joni and Wey just graduated !? Congratulations by the way!
I hope we’ll soon get more ePedagogy fellows to study, learn, work and collaborate with. I created a Poster sized in A3 and spread it on the hot spots of hamburg university. Maybe you’d like to hang up some posters in your area but don’t want to create one on your own. So I’ll share the one I created (*.pdf 143kb).
Download the Poster!

In case you have something else to promote the MA Program like Buttons for our websites or whatever. If you don’t mind share it with us or at least with me.
And one more thing which some might have recognised already. There is an official ePedagogy Twitter-Account. I will write more about that later on…

What are you doing?

Ralf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:11:24 +0000

Der ePedagogy-Folks,

long time no see. I met Grant several times in my seminar and Ina. But especially from the ones who are a bit more far away I don’t hear anything. But hey, thats not right. There is one whom I’m following through his daily life. It’s Owen, even though he’s far away. Why? It’s because he’s using Twitter.
Whats that? The following Video could give you an answer.

And hey, there are more of us ePedagogys on Twitter. Now I’ll try to make a list:
Ina @truemmerfrau
Torsten @herrmeyer
Christina @fernschwalbe
Wey @weytan
Alex @alextee
Ralf @ralfa
Owen @owenkelly

And, guess what, there are a lot of other interesting people on Twitter. User the twitter search to find topics and people you are interested in.

If you’ve got a twitter account as well, please write a comment and check if it might be interesting to follow one of the other ePeds…

Greetings from Hamburg,
Ralf

PS: Happy Birthday to this Blog. It is three years old this month!

eLearning and ePortfolios

Ralf — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:53:49 +0000

Hey Guys, unfortunately no one of the international ePedagogy students participated in my seminar this semester. Thats was a little bad sad for the other participants, but because the students expected an seminar in english language and there are other international students in we are having the seminar in english, yeah!
You can follow most parts of the seminar on the web as I mentioned already. I just wrote a little blogpost about the seminar in my own blog which might be interesting for you, it is in english too.
It is about Reasons to work with a Blog and Wiki in Seminars, the Request for Feedback to what the students did and an outlook what will happen in the next weeks with the seminar. It would be great if you find some intersting stuff for you or give feedback to the students blogs! (They admitted that the international collaberation would had been very intersting for them!)

Thanks!

ePedagogy(Bar)Camp Barcelona?

Ralf — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:04:12 +0000

The next international Seminar is said to be in the begin of October and should be held in Barcelona (great!).

I thougt about if a BarCamp as a open Structure for this Seminar might be right decision. For those of you who don’t know yet what a BarCamp is:

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers.

When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

Source: barcamp.org
In my opinion the Part of exchanging knowledge should be implemented much more in our coming up meetings. In our last Seminar I recognised that everybody is working on very interesting stuff, somehow related to our common interest. I’d love to hear/see more of that. I was very much impressed by what Nora & Co and Linda showed us.

At Barcamp.org you can not only find hints on organizing a BarCamp but also Rules of BarCamps and Information on BarCamps close to your plaze like in Helsinki on the 10th May or Amsterdam had his 4th on April 5th.
In Germany are a lot of BarCamps and Alex and me are going to participate in the EduCamp from April 18th till April 20th in Ilmenau.

So may be this kind of (un-)conference is suiteable for our coming up ePedagogy meetings but what do you think?

Seminar: Premesis of virtual Learning

Ralf — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:02:22 +0000

Hello ePedagogy Fellows!
Within the first week of April my first Seminar for the ePedagogy Program will start. The Title will be “Premesis of eLearning” and it deals with… yes, eLearning.
You will find the description of the Seminar here.
22 Participants from Hamburg already signed up, but the concept of the seminar takes into account that there might be participants from anywhere else where you will find a Internet connection.
We will have some synchronous Sessions on Tuesday 10.00-12.00 (UTC/GMT +1 hour) and a lot of work in groups, more or less asynchronous, but you should be available (online) during this time.
There will be Tasks every week, and if you like you can already start with the first one…
If you don’t have time to join us regularly think of participate via the blog even sometimes, would be nice.

Spread the word!

Ralf — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:29:29 +0000

Hi, as you all have already read the Application period (is) open. Help us getting more students into our program by spreading this information throug your blog, website whatever and bring some posters on the wall of your home university.
In order to inform potential new students about the MA program and the Application period I designed a poster which I would like to share with you. If you have designed one as well it might be interesting to have that one also on the blog!
Cheers,
Ralf

iPod for learning

Ralf — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:04:06 +0000

Mobile learning popped up several times in our last international Seminar. Cocerning to that I found a nice article which shows 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget

Put Wikipedia on Your Ipod
Watch DVDs on Your iPod
Load YouTube Videos to Your iPod
Make Other Video Formats iPod-Ready
Convert MP3 files into One Big iPod Audiobook File
Create eBooks for the iPod
Record Web Audio and Move it To Your iPod
Get a Civic Education on Your iPod
Load Maps onto Your iPod
Study Foreign Languages, Take University Courses, and Listen to AudioBooks on Your iPod – All for Free

I like these ideas and may be one of them saves you from organizing last minute christmas presents
Merry Christmas from Hamburg

Image Source: welovepandas

Web 2.0 in Educational Settings

Ralf — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:58:59 +0000

This is the file we promised during our presentation in Helsinki during our last Seminar.

In case Alex and me are not surprised by unexpexted circumstances we will soon start our little tour through the web 2.0 with all of you inside this blog.

Reporting from the 4th int. Seminar

Ralf — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:09:06 +0000

Hi Folks out there! For all you sad guys that cant participate (full time) in our seminar I just want to let you know that we’re using the Tag epedagogyhelsinki2007 at Flickr. Just click to see the slideshow of pictures which are uploaded yet and don’t forget to tag your photos
I hope Presentations will come online…

Student accomodation

Ralf — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:16:23 +0000

trams & roads – Helsinki

Originally uploaded by Jimmie James.

Hey fellow students from Helsinki, please listen up!
Some of us students from germany are looking for a place to stay at during the international seminar.
Those who’ve been to Hamburg last year are already familar with the system. Those lokal students who can offer a place to stay for international students during the seminar please “raise your hands” in the blog. I know that at least Christina, Alex and me would prefer to stay in one of your places than in an expensive hotel.

Don’t let us live on the streets of Helsinki, please!