Alec Couros and Graham Attwell have been paired together as co-keynotes at the PLE Conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 8-9. The organizers have asked us to do something different than a typical keynote, so we have been thinking about an unKeynote format. In keeping with the theme of the conference (PLEs), we’re hoping that individuals in our network would be willing to help us frame what this might look like.

Is Google running short of imagination. Not when it comes to applications - there seems to be a new product announcement almost everyday. But Google Goggles - who thought that up? Its a terrible name. But in terms of developing a work based mobile learning platform it may represent a big step forward.

Goggles is a very simple application. You merely point your Android phone at an object - a building, an object, an artefact - and it produces search results based on the image (Google say they will be porting it to other platforms in the future).

This is a short video - the first in a new series of Sounds of the Bazaar videos - made as a contribution to a workshop on 'Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation' being held on November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria.

In September, we organised a symposium on Personal Learning Environments at the the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), "an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all."

This is a question which has bothered me for some time as I am involved in developmental projects for both e-Portfolios and Personal Learning Environments. And it could well be that there is little difference, depending on how both applications (or better put, learnng processes) are defined. Of course, if e-Portfolios are seen primarily as a vehicle for assessment then the differences are clear. Simililarly if the e-Portfolio is owned by an institution or course.