Today was the last day of EDMEDIA in Vancouver, and it ended with a great keynote from Bebo White, followed by some fairly involved discussions about the implications of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning. I was sceptical, I will be honest - the Web 2.0 stuff always seemed to me to be seriously bad hype - or seriously good hype depending on your point of view. The idea of an architecture of participation, as originally case by O'Reilly, was fine - as a way of really getting away from the publish-oriented model of web activity.

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!