George Roberts :: Blog :: Climate camp: learning technology?

You have to be impressed at the organisation of what amounts to a seven-day extended conference by the Climate camp in a field in Kent. The programme (download pdf) has over 200 sessions in 15 parallel streams running from about 0900 - 2100. From an educational perspective this is somewhere in the formal/informal learning axis. But I am not sure where. Much is highly formal. But there are no institutions (in the usual sense) involved. There is no enrolment or assessment. Social networking is used extensively. Vision On TV is running an Internet TV channel that you can embed in your blog. It works; go to my Emerge page to see the widget.Indymedia is aggregating climate camp news. If you want to see how they set up a low-tech-spec field media centre for the EU summit in Barcelona in 2002, there is a how-to here. The whole thing is supposed to be solar powered. There is a Facebook profile, and a Facebook app called Climate Camp Affinity that purports to analyse your friends to see who might want to come to the camp. Of course there's a bit of a mySpace. There should be a Moodle