Meeting Dutch bloggers

Last monday Ton and I joined the edubloggers dinner in Utrecht. To me this was the first time of meeting Dutch bloggers (now that I think of it it's the second time since two Dutch blogging students joined us in Umea). Anyway, it was nice to talk in Dutch about blogging for a change. Usually I meet in an international setting where English is required. Somehow my English blogging vocabulary is more developed than my Dutch, resulting in speaking 'Dunglish' often.

Now you may wonder why I'm meeting educational bloggers. First of all I started out studying Educational Design, Management & Media for one year before switching to Communication Studies. My goal was Communication Studies, but you needed a first-year exam to get into the program. Therefore I chose to do my first year in EDMM. I liked my first year a lot, but thought that focusing on education was a bit to narrow for me and stuck with my choice of doing Communication Studies. However I always felt connected to educational issues. That probably is the main reason for me to do this little experiment with a blog in the classroom. It connects my expertise on communication tools like weblogs with my affinity with education. Together with the start of a foundation regarding innovative education and research I thought it would be a good opportunity to meet with other people interested in new communication tools and involved in educational research. A very fruitful setting for good conversations on blogging and already I'm invited to write about my experiment involving blogs in the classroom for a magazine. Meeting f-t-f works out again!

The people that were there:
Pierre Gorissen (organised this event)
Sybilla Poortman
Gerard Bierens
Frank Benneker
Margreeth van den Bergh
Partick Klaassen
Sebastian Fuchs
Ton Zijlstra
and me of course

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