is it just me

Last week I was in Villach, Austria for the first time and attended the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) 2009. The conference was a real international conference as there were participants from over 50 countries including people from Siberia, Sri Lanka, South Africa and many other interesting places. I presented papers on expert finding, Twitter in conferences and ideas on a Community-Embedded Collaborative Development Environment. Furthermore I spread the word about my ideas on Artefact-Actor-Networks.

The conference itself was very interesting as I met some of the people from Twitter, and the Blogosphere live and in color. Even if I could not took so much with me for my further research the trip was worth it. The keynote panel gave some interesting views on the theme of Lifelong Learning and we had great discussions on PLEs and the use of Twitter. The next ICL will take place in Belgium in 2010 and in 2011 in Salzburg.

Thanks Martin, Sandra, Steve, John, Hendrik, and all the others for a great week. See you soon (at least online…)

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Our second publication from the MASHl09 workshop at the ICL conference 2009 is also available online.

Abstract:

Classical tools for supporting software engineering teams (collaborative development environment, CDE) are designed to support one team during the development of a product. Often the required data sources or experts reside outside of the internal project team and thus not provided by these CDEs. This paper describes an approach for a community-embedded CDE (CCDE), which is capable of handling multiple projects of several organizations, providing inter-project knowledge sharing and developer awareness. The presented approach uses the mashup pattern to integrate multiple data sources in order to provide software teams with an exactingly development environment.

Reference: W. Reinhardt and S.Rinne: An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering. In: International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009).

An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering

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My publication about “Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups” from the MASHL09 workshop at the ICL 2009 conference is available online.

Abstract:

Twitter has gained a lot of attention in the last three years. It is used in various use cases from discussing at conferences, taking personal notes or live coverage of prominent events. Communities in Twitter are forming through the usage of a common tag that is part of the message. This paper presents an application for monitoring and visualising the dynamics in such communities, especially dynamics in the written communication of the community and presents approaches to make this application part of a mashup of services in a Personal Learning Environment.

Reference: W. Reinhardt:Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups. In: International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009).

Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups

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Here ist the 3rd and last presentation I’ll give at the ICL 2009 conference in the Special Track on Mashups for Learning. It’s about a tool we implemented to track the dynamics in communities on Twitter and treats the CoP at the Edumedia 2009.

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These are my slides for the presentation at MASHL09 Special Track at ICL 2009 Conference later today. Let’s see what the Mashup experts tell me about the idea of connecting several tools in the context of software engineering…

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My slides from yesterdays presentation at the ICL 2009 conference are now online. Any comments are highly appreciated.

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I’m finally arrived at Villach, Austria for my stay at ICL 2009. Here I will present a paper at the main conference and two papers at the Special Track on Mashups for Learning. I will upload my slides and draft versions of the paper as soon as I have them in their final state

After ICL 2009 I head over to Nice for this-year EC-TEL. There I may present two papers on the analysis and visualisation of communication in communities on Twitter.

I’ll be tweeting a lot, using the respective hashtags, so please excuse any inconvenience this may cause.

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Good news this evening. Our paper proposal for this year ICL conference was accepted as a full paper.

on behalf of the ICL Program Committee I have the pleasure to inform you, that your proposal for a full paper was accepted.

Now it’s time to wrap things up finalizing the paper. I’m looking forward to the trip to Villach and hope for great discussions on the topic.

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