I am currently attending a workshop for on our IMST project concerning the application of video conferencing in the international cooperation of our students. The goal of this project is to provide the students with an easy ability to communicate with their international partners in our Robodance project. The workshop here in Linz provides interesting insights in the other IMST projects of this periods, and the possibility to work on the details of our own project.
Last weekend I attended the startup workshop for our 2-year Comenius project on Robodance in Birmingham. Two English and three German partner schools join us in the goal to cooporate on the development of dance robots for Robocup Junior. The involved schools are Lessing Gymnasium Neu-Ulm, Simpert-Kraemer-Gymnasium Krumbach, Illertal Gymnasium Vöhringen, Belvidere School in Shrewsbury, and the project coordinator Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Birmingham.
In this first meeting we agreed on the goals and direction of this project (especially as one of our planned project partners could not join), and decided to aim for two internationally joined Robodance groups (one secondary and one primary) to offer our students the possibility for international cooporation.
I have spent the last weeks to find the reason for two network interfaces on my MBP which gave me headaches due to address conflicts with a VPN connection in the same IP range. These two interfaces were vmnet1 and vmnet8. Soon I found out that these were remnants of previous tests with VMWare Fusion (I use Parallels in the meantime).
What I did not find out was where to change the settings for these interfaces or delete them. Obviously, the network configuration was not very helpful.
Today I found a (German) description on how to change these settings (OK, use the right query from the beginning, and it would have been faster 
). Unfortunately I could access this page only in Google Cache due to some error in the corresponding blog. I guess this is only temporary, but just in case and before the page can be no longer found in Cache, I copied the contents here:
The original article can be found at:
http://blog.xsteam.eu/dasblog/CommentView,guid,d08eda92-5d51-44ca-a61e-c5630774ea22.aspx
the caches version at:
As I am still very fond of my 2007 MacBook Pro I am going to replace the harddisk to make it a bit more up to date. I found a good tutorial on ifixit.com.
I finally have moved my blog to my webspace and imported all old posts and comments. Moreover I have added a new category to publish some of my pictures from those places I have enjoyed to visit (travelblog).
Our work on TUGeoWiki has recently been published as a book chapter (the book is also available via Amazon). Martin was so kind as to make the draft version available online:
My dissertation on Social Media in Education has just been published by Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften. The book is also available via Amazon.
Today was the defense of my thesis, which went very well. So finally, after 3 1/2 years of research at Graz University of Technology I am a PhD 
