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Mobile Learning Community Landscaping
June 30, 2010 By Dirk

Beside relevant conferences on mobile learning, the topic is increasingly discussed in a much wider community on internationally occurring BarCamps. These participant-driven ‘unconferences’ are usually centered around a specific topic and try to avoid …

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Research
Defining Learning in a Mobile Age
June 17, 2010 By Dirk

Working on an article for Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) journal, I came accross an interesting article by John Traxler from the University of Wolverhampton talking about definitions and perspectives of learning in a mobile age.So far there hav…

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Research
Web Squared: Web meets the World
August 24, 2009 By Dirk

In anticipation of the upcoming Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco later this year, Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle published a whitepaper descibing this years theme: “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On”. Reflecting the last five years of this Web 2.0 conference with the main insight that Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective intelligence they point out that […]

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Community
Mobilecamp 2009
April 28, 2009 By Dirk

Last weekend I participated in the first MobileCamp in Germany. Following the principles of a user-generated conference (known as BarCamp) the event dealt with questions around technical trends in the “Mobile Age”. As it was my first BarCamp I had to get used to some unofficial rules: You do talk about BarCamp. You do blog about BarCamp. If you want […]

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Conference
Flash on the Beach 2008
August 10, 2008 By Dirk

After attending the Flashforum Conference (FFK08) I will also attend this year’s Flash on the Beach (FOTB08) in Brighton. Already in it’s third year, it has become the biggest Flash community conference in Europe. Nearly 50 designers, developers, creatives, film makers and artists out of the rich media industry will present on 3 tracks over 3 full days in the […]

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Conference
Flashforum Conference 2008 – Day 2
May 23, 2008 By Dirk

The quite long first day at the Flashforum Conference (FFK08) has been followed by a shorter one. Again the agenda was well prepared and I visited the presentations listed below: Serving Flash – Lösungen mit und ohne Java (Michael Wacker) Verzaubert von Design Patterns – Architektur und Entwurfsmuster in der Praxis (Nico Zimmermann) Flex und AIR Datenintegration – Was kommt […]

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Conference
Flashforum Conference 2008 – Day 1
May 22, 2008 By Dirk

The first day of the Flashforum Conference (FFK08) started with a keynote of Adobe platform evangelist Serge Jespers. The keynote mainly focused on Adobes new technical innovations, above all the current development of Flash Player 10 already available as beta version. The probably most significant element out of it is the new programming language Pixel Bender used to define visual […]

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Events
Flashforum Conference 2008
May 20, 2008 By Dirk

For the first time I will attend this year’s Flashforum Conference (FFK08) in the MediaPark Cologne. It is already the eighth edition of the two day conference, organised by Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter. They are the creators of the Flashforum, the biggest German-speaking Adobe User Group. The presentations accompanied by several workshops cover both creative and technical topics all […]

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Events
Flex Roadshow in Cologne
April 17, 2008 By Dirk

Yesterday I attended the Adobe Flex 3 Roadshow in Cologne. The one day event introduced all the concepts around the Flash platform – from the creation of rich internet applications with Flash and Flex Builder, over to the development of desktop applications using AIR, ending up with the usage of BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services as backend technologies. The event […]

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