Comments on: It’s Elementary Show #14 – Conferences 2.0, Style! http://itselementary.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/its-elementary-show-14-conferences-20-style/ Supporting technology in the elementary classroom Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:50:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: alicemercer http://itselementary.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/its-elementary-show-14-conferences-20-style/comment-page-1/#comment-22 alicemercer Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:08:37 +0000 http://itselementary.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/its-elementary-show-14-conferences-20-style/#comment-22 These are excellent points. I went to a Barcamp, which involved tech types including programmers, and they were not live blogging. The most they did was take pics and post them to flickr with tags. It doesn't take much to be at the cutting edge sometimes, but we need to model this to people. You are probably dragging a lot of people to edublogging because of your Open Court site (and reputation). A lot of folks did pre-post links, etc. One point I like that Dy/Dan makes about slidedecks. If you are using enough visuals (and cutting down the text to the bare minimum) using your narration to tell the story, that can't be replicated. Also, many of us have a vibe or a presence. I'm sure listening to this show on recording was different than doing our show together live. Sometimes you just can't replace being there. I hope you can join us on Ed Tech Brainstorm on Thursday at 4 p.m. PDT to share some of these thoughts! These are excellent points. I went to a Barcamp, which involved tech types including programmers, and they were not live blogging. The most they did was take pics and post them to flickr with tags. It doesn’t take much to be at the cutting edge sometimes, but we need to model this to people. You are probably dragging a lot of people to edublogging because of your Open Court site (and reputation). A lot of folks did pre-post links, etc.

One point I like that Dy/Dan makes about slidedecks. If you are using enough visuals (and cutting down the text to the bare minimum) using your narration to tell the story, that can’t be replicated. Also, many of us have a vibe or a presence. I’m sure listening to this show on recording was different than doing our show together live. Sometimes you just can’t replace being there. I hope you can join us on Ed Tech Brainstorm on Thursday at 4 p.m. PDT to share some of these thoughts!

]]> By: Mathew http://itselementary.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/its-elementary-show-14-conferences-20-style/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mathew Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:13:51 +0000 http://itselementary.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/its-elementary-show-14-conferences-20-style/#comment-21 I enjoyed this show and wished I would have caught it live. It brought up a few questions for me which you you might have some thoughts on... What is the difference in your mind between posting links mentioned in a session on a wiki versus on a web page? How would workshop participants interact with a wiki? I am sure that if David Warlick or Wesley Fryer posted a wiki before or after their presentations, people would check it out and contribute. However, if you or I posted a wiki ahead, would there really be an audience other than a few friends? At what point does posting a presentation (powerpoint, handouts, links) before the presentation is given ruin the presentation? Should presenters ever be worried that by posting the presentation ahead of time no one needs to show up? People could just take the handout and leave. At most conferences, do average people really interact in the way that you're expecting? Check out technorati for cue08 or cue2008 and it only brings up a few blogs and most of them are by the cool people I ate lunch with. I thought that there'd be more blogging about the event or maybe people just aren't utilizing tagging in a way that makes posts easy to find. I've had the same experience with other conferences/events. What can conferences do to encourage more participation? I enjoyed this show and wished I would have caught it live. It brought up a few questions for me which you you might have some thoughts on…

What is the difference in your mind between posting links mentioned in
a session on a wiki versus on a web page? How would workshop participants
interact with a wiki?

I am sure that if David Warlick or Wesley Fryer posted a wiki before or after their presentations, people would check it out and contribute. However, if you or I posted a wiki ahead, would there really be an audience other than a few friends?

At what point does posting a presentation (powerpoint, handouts,
links) before the presentation is given ruin the presentation? Should presenters ever be worried that by posting the presentation ahead of time no one needs to show up? People could just take the handout and leave.

At most conferences, do average people really interact in the way that
you’re expecting? Check out technorati for cue08 or cue2008 and it only brings
up a few blogs and most of them are by the cool people I ate lunch with. I thought that there’d be more blogging about the event or maybe people just aren’t utilizing tagging in a way that makes posts easy to find. I’ve had the same experience with other conferences/events.

What can conferences do to encourage more participation?

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