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The 13th CARNet Users' Conference (CUC) was held earlier this week in Rijeka. It was an opportunity for CARNet to share experiences with its users on implementation of ICT in classroom. Many conference guests considered it the best CUC ever.

George Siemens from the Athabasca University gave an inspiring presentation „Learning in Complex Knowledge Spaces“. He argued that the complexity was growing as we were creating new tools, contents and relationships in networked spaces of Web 2.0. “More is different”, said George. Educators should take advantage of Web 2.0 in order to facilitate students to learn differently. George also pointed out that the affordances were what matters, not the tools themselves.

One of the tools George mentioned was Jailbreak the Patriarchy, brand new Chrome extension that gender swaps any text in English you choose. I installed the extension and tried to find some appropriate texts on Internet displaying gender bias, but didn’t have much success. I decided to include text on the extension written by its author Danielle Sucher who had invited readers to give their feedback. You can read the comments or make your own.

George presented Trailmeme as a tool enabling creation of learning paths that can be shared and reused. Trailmeme.com states that visual maps of Web content called trails allow users to gain a sense of control and mastery in overwhelming web space. Trails allow us to create meaningful stories out of Web content probably similarly to Diigo. I haven’t tried to create trails yet.