Vance Stevens was invited to present online at the EuroCALL conference http://www.eurocall2007.com/ on 8 September in Coleraine, Northern Ireland (10:15-11:00-- GMT) as a featured online presenter in the Virtual Strand which included streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat spaces, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes: http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/eurocall/conference_format/virtual-strand/index.html. The Google Group homepage http://vsportal2007.googlepages.com/home. points to the Virtual Strand link to the presentation.

Vance's paper entitled Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks is linked from http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13493912. Participants were expected to read the text in advance (ha ha), so that during the presentation itself, Vance would join delegates in a chat room on a Blobber-enabled web-page for discussion and questions. Blobber doesn't work well, so Vance steered participants to a Skypecast at the time he would be at the Blobber thingy, hence the need for the stream. Participants included Jose Rodrigues mentoring on the stream, Lisa Durff backup streamer, Moira Hunter, and Michael Shade, Penny from Australia, and others in the chat room. Thanks all, recording finally edited and posted here June 2008; for more information http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1325 - Vance