I have just got back from the Computer Assisted Learning conference held at Trinity College Dublin. It was an interesting conference - certainly a good opportunity to reflect on learning and practice. As always, one of the main benefits of attending a conference like this is to be able to figure out whether or not your own work is any good, and to establish connections with other people and their work. On the whole, Brendan Tangney did a great job of keeping the conference moving and enabling some good discussions, although the catering left something to be desired for vegetarians!

I've been working with some of our internal players, trying to help keep some developments going on embedding Moodle within my workplace. We're a large (~10000 students) higher education institution, and like most other higher education institutions, we have a lot of existing systems and practices that we need to work with. The challenge is not technical, it is social - trying to encourage people to work within a slightly new framework.