I will organize a workshop on IMS Learning Design and Personalized Learning at the Adaptive Hyperrmedia Conferences 2006.

The 2006 International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006) will take place in the National College of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. AH2006 will be the fourth in a very successful conference series that began in Trento, Italy in 2000, with subsequent conferences held in Malaga, Spain (2002) and Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2004). AH2006 is being held co-operation with the ACM SIGWEB, SIGART, ACM SIGIR, AIED Society.

here I have collected some links for social software:
definition at wikipedia:

Social Software : Home
Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
del.icio.us

Learning is currently intertwined in any human activity. Humans apply their knowledge and extend it when performing various tasks. Activities differ but generic learning processes can be adapted to those differences. Professional learning is especially characterized by learning on demand fitting the context of workplace performance. Nowadays, workplaces must more and more be seen as a challenge to the learner to higher his or her own employability, where learner can access a large pool of resources for life long professional development.

together with several collegagues i authored a paper about social software for professional learning for ICALT 2006. find it attached.

Ralf Klamma is the main author of the paper. Thanks to Ralf !

Ralf Klamma, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Erik Duval, Sebastian Fiedler, Hans Hummel, Ebba Thora Hvannberg, Andreas Kaibel, Barbara Kieslinger, Milos Kravcik, Effie Law, Ambjörn Naeve, Peter Scott, Marcus Specht, Colin Tattersall, Riina Vuorikari from PROLEARN Network of Excellence

I wrote a paper with Andreas Lorenz and Andreas Zimmermann about architectures for mobile and contextualized learning for the ICALT 2006 conference.

Abstract: The paper introduces the background and motivation for contextualized learning experiences and a short overview of recent research work on valuable mobile applications for learning. Based on a background of situated cognition and situated learning authentic learning experiences can be supported by a variety of context parameters. The paper illustrates a general architecture for contextualized applications and identifies important issues for contextualizing learning experiences and learning content.

43things.com is nice approach for how to organize informal learning processes. you can specify a learning goal and find people who also want to do this or people who have successfully done this.

try it -> 43things.com

I will be at the Prolearn Summerschool and give a session about IMS Learning Design and Personalization for Professional Learning together with Daniel Burgos.

The Prolearn Summerschool will be in Bled/Slovenia see the PROLEARN Academy Portal.

Bei Netzspannung finden sich eine Menge schoener Lernbeispiele und interaktive Mediaideen. siehe:
http://netzspannung.org/learning/

Im Jazzwuerfel koennen Kadenzen per wuerfel generiert werden. Ein schoenes Beispiel fuer PlayAlong online und sogar frei zum runterladen!

eine unmenge neuer ideen, spannender entwicklungen und technologien finden sich im web2.0. mittlerweile gibt es auch interessante Uebersichtsseiten und Podcasts zum Thema mit denen man sich einen guten Ueberblick verschaffen kann. beispielsweise:

The Web 2.0 Show oder Emily Chang – eHub .

Web 2.0 Workgroup – A network of Web 2.0 resources

if you did not make money in your real life til now you can now go to your second life. participating in the real world already brought out some successful business people ;-).

Read a business week article: My Virtual Life
listen to a podcast: COVER STORY PODCAST