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Here you will find all the details of MirandaMods past, present and future. Many of the links above will take you to detailed feedback from the meetings including several with video clips.

You don't know what a MirandaMod is? There's an explanation further down this page. Previous MirandaMods have covered these topics:

Resources from the Games Based Learning Conference

MirandaNet ran a well attended MirandaMod at the Games Based Learning conference. After the event Graham Brown Marting reports: the Game Based Learning Conference was attended by more than 400 international delegates for a stimulating, inspiring and possibly exhausting 2 days.

By all accounts it was a success with engaging and provocative conversations sparked during the event itself, on Twitter where the event consistently trended and now continuing amongst various online communities.

Next MirandaMod: January 2011

(NB: Change of date! Handheld Learning Festival & Conference moved from October to January!)
Our next major event is the Handheld Learning Festival & Conference 2011, Jan 9th - 11th, London (http://bit.ly/hhl10). Early Bird registration with free iPad is still available whilst stocks last!

Normally, MirandaMods take place at the WLE Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

You can also participate online in text and in developing a collaborative map of our professional knowledge so far on each topic. Register using the links for each event on MirandaNet, where you can also register to collaborate in the online concept map.

MirandaMod Chair: Terry Freedman (www.terry-freedman.org.uk)
MirandaNet team: Christina Preston, John Cuthell, Leon Cych and Theo Kuechel

Thanks to our partners:

Recent MirandaMods

‘Mobile learning, handheld learning?’ What do we mean?

The presentations during the seminar considered the issues of mobile and handheld learning from four key perspectives: the different mediums in which learning now takes place informally; the value to teachers of digital resources; the scholarly underpinnings of this developing area and the influence of companies on the directions taken by schools in implementing the associated hardware and software. In the MirandaMod that followed Elizabeth Hartnell-Young joined the debate from New Zealand. Other contributors came from across the United Kingdom. Two of the conclusions were that: to make mobile and handheld learning worth the investment there needed to be significant changes in classroom practice and assessment; and, as a profession we still do not know enough about the process of collaborative knowledge creation online.

Balancing digital literacy with digital safety: a growing dilemma for educators

This second MirandaMod in October took place on 22nd October 2009 at the WLE Centre, Institute of Education, London and online, 16:00 - 21:00. It was led by Leon Cych with Allison Allen, and raised some significant issues.

MirandaMod at the Handheld Learning Conference, October 5th 2009

Participants in the Handheld Learning MirandaMod raised a fascinating range of issues linking theory and practice about the use of ubiquitous technologies in informal learning, and the ways in which they can impact formal education.

September MirandaMod: Communities of practice; do they have a role in education?

With Etienne Wenger

This event took place at the WLE Centre, Institute of Education, London, and of course Online on 22 September 2009, 16:00 - 21:00

What is a MirandaMod?

MirandaMod is an informal, loosely structured unconference (see Wikipedia definition) of like-minded educators to share ideas about the use of technology to inspire others. We hope they will become a regular feature in the MirandaNet calendar. It is likely that MirandaMods will usually (but not always) be a fringe event following or attached to a formal MirandaNet seminar/workshop or meeting. It is hoped to establish an International dimension to this event.

Historically Mod comes from the Gaelic word for a gathering, assembly or parliament.*

Institute of Education, London - location of first MirandaMod

Image credit Steve Cadman CCLicence Flickr

It is always free to attend a MirandaMod (and you will be fed and watered)
There will be a Wifi connection, soplease bring your laptops etc

Some Background

* Borrowing its name from the MirandaNet community and the Gaelic word for a 'gathering or assembly', MirandaMod acknowledges its indebtedness to other unconferences, especially Teachmeet, under whose banner the original MirandaNet unconference was going to fly. However, organisational considerations mean that MirandaMod has to meet a different set of criteria to Teachmeet. We see MirandaMod as an addition, rather than a competitor, to Teachmeet in the educational unconference world, and it is more than likely that members of the MirandaMod community will be involved with Teachmeet events and vice versa.

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