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The majority of presentations can now be viewed online and reviews are welcome. Please send reviews to diverse-conference2009@aber.ac.uk

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2009 Creative Concept Coffees Award

The winners of the 2009 Creative Concept Coffees Award received a substantial travel grant towards attending DIVERSE 2010 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, USA. The award was presented for the best new collaborative project idea developed by delegates at the conference. Five projects were shortlisted and during the closing ceremony, the audience voted for the best idea using the Qwizdom handheld voting system. The idea had to involve a co-operation between at least two countries and the idea had to be at a level suitable for presentation at the DIVERSE 2010 Conference.

See the CCCs PowerPoint summarising the project ideas, in which each group presented their ideas for 2 minutes prior to the audience vote

Winners:

• Marek Oledzki, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Frank Westland, Tilburg University, Netherlands & Jeroen Bottema, INHolland University, Netherlands: "Bringing the students’ voice to DIVERSE"

Runners Up:

• Maria Hayes, Aberystwyth University, UK; Deborah Arnold, Videoscop Universite, Nancy 2, France; Stephen Hull, University of Bristol, UK & Alison Walker, Welsh Video Network, Swansea University, UK: "Drawing with Light"

Highly Commended:

• Clive Holtham, City University College London, UK & Eduardo Perez, University of Stockholm, Sweden: "Video for crisis collaboration"

• Deborah Arnold, Videoscop Universite, Nancy 2, France & Lawrence Moley, Queens College, Belfast, Northern Ireland: "KIDSAWARE: from roots to shoots"

• Mark Hoeksma, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands & Bruce Nightingale, Nottingham Trent University, UK: "Developing a community of inquiry"

Well done to all delegates who submitted ideas during CCCs. We hope you will participate again next year.

DIVERSE 2009 was sponsored by:

Exhibitors at DIVERSE 2009 included all sponsors plus:

The majority of presentations at DIVERSE 2009 were captured using the Echo360 lecture capture system. They can now be viewed online via

• Presentations: Schedule View
• Presentations: Thematic View
• Presentations: Abstracts View

Link to DIVERSE SharePoint site (opens in a new browser window: hosted by SURFgroepen, Netherlands): The site contains a large collection of DIVERSE communications and resources from 2009: wiki and text reports, micro-blogging, pictures, videos, links to DIVERSE on YouTube. You can also find links to DIVERSE 2008 in Lillehammer and 2007 in Haarlem.

Download the full proceedings from DIVERSE 2007, Lillehammer and DIVERSE 2008, Haarlem (174 page PDF: 35MB)

Did you know that you can still view the presentations from DIVERSE 2008 at INHolland University in the Netherlands? Follow the banner below (opens in a new browser window)...

Conference team 2009

DIVERSE Committee with the significant help of staff at Aberystwyth University: John Morgan, Janice de Haaff, Rex Berridge, Pauline Downing, Lindsey Roebuck,Mary Jacob, Nigel Thomas, Geoff Constable,Tim Davies, Hefin James, Tom Fernandez, Martin Pugh, Matt Collins, Gareth Williams, Roy Hill

Supported by Language and Learning Centre, Conference Office, Information Services

DIVERSE past, present and future

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