We are very proud to announce that one of our colleagues, Roddy Rube, just won the contest of Oliver Bendel’s iniative of reading poems!
The link to Oliver Bendel’s Weblog: [press]
Monsters at the Educamp (Graz)
As discussed since several months some monster particpated at the EduCamp in Graz. Thanks for the great discussions about our work and experiences in the humanoid world. Thanks especially to Ralf (at FlickR: adesigna) for his documentation of our short speech in the lecture hall & thanks to the organizers & all participants, monsters or not, for such a great event!
22.9.2009: Amber’s Keynote in Graz (AT)
Hey this is really cool: One of our professors, Amber Beadyeyes, was asked to hold a keynote at the e-learning conference “eLearning Tag der FH Joanneum” (Graz, Austria)… if you like to see and hear her (in German:)
Das Programm unseres 8. eLearning Tags der FH JOANNEUM am 22. 9. ist nun fertig, Dr. Sandra Schaffert von Salzburg Research hält in Kooperation mit Prof. Amber Beadyeyes von der Monster Academy die Keynotes, es verspricht interessant zu werden, 11 Vorträge und 2 Workshops erwarten die TeilnehmerInnen, rasch anmelden! http://virtual-campus.fh-joanneum.at/anmeldung/
Amber will be assisted by a humanoid woman … to the best of our knowledge this is the first time that a monster will hold a keynote in the humans’ world.
PS: This is a snapshoot when she talked to her boss telling the news …
Interview with Rolf Schulmeister: The future of TEL
Roddy met Prof. Rolf Schulmeister (University of Hamburg) at the FNMA Conference in Vienna. They are talking about the future of technology enhanced learning.
Interview with Peter Scott about assessment and reflection
Roddy had the opportunity to talk to Peter Scott, Director of the KMI Institute of the Open University UK. Roddy and Peter talk about the importance of reflection and assessment (especially FOR learning).
Monsters’ poems
No, we monsters are no poets. But we love poems and like to read poems. So it was very easy to convince us to participate on a project initiated by Oliver Bendel: He wants to share and distribute some of his poems with YOUR help: He ask to read one of the poems from his book (online) and publish it as a video in the Web. – The poems and the project description are written in German!! Feel free to join us!
Polly and Roddy gave their best: Roddy read “Die Körper” and Polly “Die Blumen”.
Two-eyed Roddy
Roddy has a part time job … but obviously, they thought that a second eye would be more scary (rofl)
[picture] midnight party
Here you can see our group photograph after midnight – scary night:
Painting of the monsters …
This is really cool … a fan of the monsters painted this picture (110 x 80 cm!) … and now it is the impressive decoration in our office.
