Featured photo above taken in Gratz 2013 at Learning Layers project meeting. Snap below is from 2011 Florence, Italy. I named it 'Walk on by the Duomo di Firenze'. In this year got I obsessed with street photography and shadows. I was in Florence for the SoMobNet project meeting, organised by the amazing Maria Ranieri.
Norbert Pachler and Ben Bachmair are legends to me. Writing our book ‘Mobile Learning: Structures, agency and practices’ (published 2010 it took about 4 years to pull together) blew my mind! And, after about 13 years (in October 2022) it has reached over 1144 citations in Google Scholar! Norbert and Ben were my co-authors and helped me see things from different perspectives. We would meet to progress things variously at the Institute of Education (London), St. Georgen outside Salzburg (Norbert’s home town), Bavaria (Ben’s pad) or at conference around the world. Collaborations took shape and eclectic ideas were explored. My ability to fit in and thrive in such an environment is, I claim, a direct result of the creative and interdisciplinary mind set that I developed in the 'London in the 80s Indie music milieu'. I miss these days. We were assisted by smart people: Gunther Kress (sadly missed), Klaus Rummler, Judith Seipold and Elisabetta Adami. Sometimes in life you get lucky ... but not so much at 5-aside against Norbert’s Institute of Education team … he is a goal hanger after all!
Bavaria May 07, L-R Judith, Norbert, Ben and Klaus
Visit to mountains near Salzburg April 08
St Georgen Dec 08
AERA San Diego 09, L-R Elisabetta Adami, Ben, Anna and Norbert.
Florence July 2011, SoMobNet meeting, L-R Stefania Manca, me, Maria Ranieri, Norber
Routledge hall at AERA 2012, Vancouver
Vancouver 2012, SoMobNet talks and AERA paper
Ben, 20 August 2013, Augsburg, Germany, Ratskeller.
Below, evidence that another dream came true for me: seeing New Orleans. This was thanks to the roundtable headed up by the awesome Brenda Bannan:
2011 French Quarter Festival kicks off
2011 Lunch time at the House of Blues
We were here to give this Round Table: Bannan, B., Cook, J., Pachler, N., and Bachmair, B., Pedagogically-Orientated Mobile Learning Research: The Case of Design Research, Round-Table Session at 2011 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, April 8-12 in New Orleans.
Above was taken in 2011 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Time off from an EC-TEL workshops for a walkabout in Mondello, a small town near the city of Palermo.
Below 2011 'Policing Tuscany Style', Florence, Italy. In Florence for SoMobNet project meeting.
2011 Sounds Familia to you? Here for a project meeting
2011 Semmering Feb. Here for a project meeting with Carl Smith, who brought his snow board
2012 Vancouver Island
2012 Logs on beach Vancouver Island, took a few days whilst visiting for invited talks with SoMobNet at Uni of British Columbia
2012 Portugal May, here to give a workshop at JTEL
Led by Andreas Schmidt (but lots of good colleagues in that photo) MATURE Final Review successfully completed. We "demonstrated capacity to learn and to dynamically build and share a common vision", "prepared high quality publications and deliverables", "scientific management excellent", and "example of an excellent FP7 project" to be recommended to the EC. June 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
2013 Helsinki, Finland. On this night we had a sauna then swam in the Baltic Sea, which was actually a large hole cut in the ice! Here for Learning Layers FP7 meeting (below).
2013 Villard de Lans, France (below), here for Alpine Rendez-Vous. Paper presented at Crisis Forum.
Professor heavy contingent on walk up hill, Graz 2013 Project meeting, with Ronald Maier and Tobias Ley. Patti in the background.
With Ralf Klamma at ECTEL conference 5 aside. 17 September 2013, Pegeia, Cyprus. Picture by Mikhail Fominykh
2014 Aachen, Germany. Learning Layers project meeting, hosted by the great team headed by the excellent Ralf Klamma (below).
2014 Bali water worship. Here to present a paper which later became a journal article (below).
2015 Sinaia, Romania. Giving paper at International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (below).
2015 Tallin, Estonia. Meeting for Learning Layers (below).
2015 Toledo, Spain. Project meeting for Learning Layers (below).
2016 Budapest, Hungary. Here giving invited talk (below).
2016 Valletta, Malta. Here to give Keynote but also acting as External Supervisor for Pen Lister (now a Dr) (below).
2019 Goethe University Frankfurt, where I was Senior Prof until June 2020. My part of the West End campus is great and features this stunning sculpture by Jaume Plensa called Body of Knowledge (below).
The view from the office that I shared with my lovely friend and colleague Ben Bachmair
After we had finished our teaching my colleague and friend Ben Bachmair took me to Frankfurt Christmas fair, treating me to Glühwein. Cheers! Dec 2019.