EduBloggerCon Ideas...
Steve Hargadon
> I've joined in. Are we going to set a time to skype conference and chat
> with the four of us to set up timelines, etc. I spent an hour on the wiki
> last night.
Yes, I saw your work last night late. Great, great job. Some really
good ideas.
I'm interested in how we would like this to evolve. Do we want to
start actively managing at this point, or let it percolate for a bit
and see how people respond? Certainly, the logistical details need to
start being addressed quickly. I'm wondering if a
Skypecast/Chat/Brainstorm meeting with anyone who wants to give input
might not be a good next step. Some of the ideas that came up just
yesterday (student blogging panel/keynotes, video-conference sessions,
remote participation) were huge.
Another aspect I have been thinking about, though, is that the genesis
for this idea was for edubloggers to have a chance to physically meet
and just relax together and talk--and we may want to think about how
to be careful to retain that. With all the fun things that I think
people are going to think of, we could easily find that we had just
created another session-packed day. Are we looking to create another
ed tech conference, or an edublogger meetup?
Personally, I would like both. Maybe it's worth going back to my
earlier idea of two days: one for edubloggercon and the other for
school 2.0. The question that I have about that is, can we do
something on school 2.0 that will be different than/complementary to
what NECC is about? NECC has been good to us, and I don't want to
steal their thunder; at the same time, I do think there are things we
could do that wouldn't happen easily in the larger conference.
Would love some feedback here.
Steve
Will Richardson
I think I'm in the meetup mode myself. I think if we can just organize a venue and a date and work out the logistics, the content should be up to the attendees. The best unconference type thing I've been to allowed the participants to create their own discussions, select their own facilitators, etc. I don't see this as having a keynote or speakers per say (that'll happen during NECC), just smaller group conversations around ideas that are of importance to the group. And then reported out to the larger community.
Will
Blogging about teaching, learning and the Read/Write Web for 5 years at Weblogg-ed.com .
Author of the best-selling "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" from Corwin Press. (http://tinyurl.com/rmpmz)
Speaker, presenter, teacher, trainer (See a clip at http://tinyurl.com/rezsr)
Miguel Guhlin
I'm inclined to agree with Will. The truth is, the unconference is what's appealing. I really want a chance to just be in the same room with other folks as excited about all this, struggling and overcoming or failing, and listen to your stories. To me, that's what EduBloggerCon would serve best as--a platform to bring folks together to chat and share.
The beauty of it is that we have the tools to share that conversation with a wide audience in ways we never had before, and ignite a global conversation. THAT is what is so exciting.
With appreciation for your efforts,
San Antonio, Texas
mgu...@yahoo.com
http://www.mguhlin.net