Workshops?
Posted by yishaym on January 18, 2008
In the Learning Patterns project, we drove the pattern language development by a series of workshops. As we discussed at the kickoff, it would seem valuable to replicate, refine and elaborate that strategy.
Part of the workshop methodology itself has been captured by a pattern, and there’s a set of videos demonstrating the process. There’s also a paper on the way. The workshop descriptions and calls can be used as a starting point for our own proposals. There’s a few conferences coming up which could offer good venues:
ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
deadline, 29 February 2008
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/
The Shock of the Old 7: Web 2.0 and the Connected Future
Said Business School, University of Oxford, 3rd April 2008
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2008/
EuroPLoP 2008: 13th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
July 9-13, 2008
Irsee Monastery, Bavaria, Germany
http://www.hillside.net/europlop/
ICALT 2008: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
July 1st- July 5th, 2008
http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2008/
deadline: January 29th, 2008
Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support
University of California, Berkeley
June 26 – 29, 2008
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/
The Pattern Language Network 
Janet Finlay said
EuroPLOP have announced a Thematic track on education so it is definitely worth us presenting there – I would suggest something about the methodology we are adopting as with a deadline of February we won’t have a lot of actual results by then. For workshops, we need to bear in mind that in this project our priority has to be the UK HE community so the first two would be the only ones that would be really appropriate. But I think we also need to be planning workshops specifically to target our user groups and the Emerge community – we certainly need to start thinking about dates for these.