---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Owen Kelly <[email protected]> Date: 2011/9/1 Subject: Future Learning Spaces: Designs on E-Elearning 2011 - the online discussion phase begins in 24 hours To: "Sonvilla-Weiss Stefan ([email protected])" < [email protected]> Hello,**** ** ** This is a note for everyone attending the Future Learning Spaces Designs on E-Learning 2011 conference.**** ** ** I have mailed this to you all by sending the mail to Stefan and including your mail addresses as blind carbon copies. Tomorrow when you join you will be able to choose whether you wish your email address to be made public or whether you wish to communicate solely through the site itself.**** ** ** We told you at the beginning that we planned the conference to begin with a period of online discussion to enable conversations to begin prior to you all arriving in Finland. This is to alert you to the fact that the designsonelearning2011.com web site has now been updated, to prepare for this. There is now a login button at the bottom right of each page, which you will be able to use as soon as you receive your user name and password.* *** ** ** Currently the web site shows the first draft version of the timetable. You should already be able to find this under the Programme menu. You will see there that all those who have submitted a paper or presentation have been assigned to a conference theme and allotted a place in one of the eight panels. You can see the titles of all the papers in each panel under the Participants menu, beneath the details of the conference speakers.**** ** ** There is a new Discussion menu which is, naturally, where the online discussion phase of the conference will take place. There are three sub menus: Activity, Members and Groups. Tomorrow, after some final testing, I will send each of you a user name and a password. You will then be able to take part in all of these.**** ** ** The Activities section allows you to make status updates, in a similar way to Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. You can use these to let people know what you are thinking and planning, and anything else you wish to share with the group.**** ** ** The Members section contains a list of everyone. Please go to your own Member Page when you have logged in and edit your profile, just as you might in any social networking site. If everyone fills this in, and adds a photo, then we should be able to talk and share in ways that will give us a flying headstart for our activities when you finally arrive in Helsinki.**** ** ** The Groups section is a way of drawing together the different elements of the conference. We have created a group for each conference theme, as well as a general group and a group for the barcamp and workshops. The full papers are all available from within the groups, under the Documents tab. Each group also has a Forum tab, which is where we can engage in conversations too complex for the status updates.**** ** ** Everyone will automatically be a member of every group. They are not meant to divide us up - simply as a way of providing some structure!**** ** ** I will also create a Help Topic in the general group, so if you have any problems there will be a place where you can ask questions and seek advice.* *** ** ** You should all receive your user names and passwords within the next twenty four hours. Please register as soon as you can, and definitely by Monday if possible. On Monday morning I will go through the membership list and check for any problems.**** ** ** More tomorrow,**** ** ** Owen**** **** ** ** -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens