My planned final session was not appropriate for me  and so I walked out and went to the plenary hall to see what was going on in there.  The presenter, who I have no idea who she was was presenting on creating collaborative learning environments for students, something that I have a lot of experience with.  It was a good presentation and at the end of it asked a question and shared information about my own ventures.  All very urn-remarkable, except that as I was leaving I bumped into Albin Wallace.  We had last met in Prague in 2008 when I presented a paper at the IFIP conference with Helen Hardie.  It was such a surprise to bump into him as he is based in London and is at ACEC2010 to present his own paper on day three.

I arrived back in New Zealand after a family trip to Sydney yesterday.  I now find myself in the departure lounge of Auckland International once again en route to Melbourne, via Sydney.  This time I am working.  I am off to the ACEC2010 conference.  The programme has catered for many tastes and I am really looking forward t my breakouts and will be updating this site regularly throughout the conference, WiFi permitting.  Roaming data charges are far too prohibitive for me to contemplate.

I have just got back from another exciting annual marathon that is Ulearn.  I had hoped to present three full sessions this year, but was only picked for two, better luck next year.  The conference was its usual mix of inspiration, affirmation and networking.  This year a good deal of my energy went into the networking aspect.  I have made some promising new contacts that are opening up exciting new leads, all of whom need to be followed up in the coming days and weeks.  Below is the presentation slide show that I gave in breakout 1