On the day before AoIR2006, I presented at the Online Learning and Teaching conference at QUT. I'm happy to report that the two conference papers for OLT2006 that I was involved in have now been published on the conference Website - here are the references:
Rachel Cobcroft, Stephen Towers, Judith Smith, and Axel Bruns. "Mobile Learning in Review: Opportunities and Challenges for Learners, Teachers, and Institutions." In Proceedings of the Online Learning and Teaching Conference 2006, Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
Peter Duffy and Axel Bruns. "The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A Conversation of Possibilities." In Proceedings of the Online Learning and Teaching Conference 2006, Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
Incidentally, an earlier co-authored paper with Stephen Towers and Jude Smith on online education is also online:
Stephen Towers, Jude Smith, and Axel Bruns. "E-Learning Environments: Generation C - The Missing Link." In Proceedings of the Symposium on Teaching Technology in Higher Education: The 24/7 e-University, Perth, 2005
Meanwhile, work continues on other projects. Over the past couple of days, I've written two 7500 word chapters on citizen journalism and tactical media for upcoming edited collections (more on these when I hear back from the editors...), and I'm now looking very seriously at a much-delayed research project to map the extended Australian news blogosphere, such as it is. Starting points for the latter are likely to be sites such as Lavartus Prodeo, Online Opinion, and perhaps also Crikey, amongst others, but if anyone wants to nominate their favourite sites, please let me know. Online Opinion and Crikey are not technically blogs, so I'm happy to relax the criteria for inclusion a little at least for the first trial run.
