Oct
20
2007
Podcast 35….Conferences Aren’t Working
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Conferences, Podcasting, change, socialnetworks
Driving home from this conference, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to reflect. Some people just think about conferences and learning, I record them. There might even be some ideas in here worth listening to.
Show notes:
- Finding Our Way: Assessment Evaluation & Accountability
- unconference
- open space technology
- K12 online
- Andy Hargreaves
- My notes on Hargreaves talk
- Learning 2.0 in Shanghai
- Jeff Utecht
- Wes Fryer’s recordings
- Joanne Quinn
- OISE
- Konrad Glogowski
- Mark Ahlness
- Clarence Fisher
- Walled gardens
- Miguel Guhlin
- Just the facts
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October 21st, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Hi Dean,
I enjoyed your thoughts and agree with you completely. I’d add another reason conferences don’t work anymore - they’re way too expensive for teachers to attend. I only go if they come here, to Seattle. Last spring I tried to get my district to fund my trip to the annual IRA convention in Toronto in May, not just to attend, but to do a presentation. Asked for $1,000, got zero. So, I did a virtual presentation, produced and burned a DVD - and they played it there to a standing room only crowd (I hear). Followed it up with a live Skype Q&A session, me drinking my morning coffee in Seattle, and attendees in Toronto, itching to go to lunch. Just another hybrid model to think about… - Mark
October 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
That is a great example. I remember about 6 years ago, we had Kathy Schrock in virtually and as a keynote, I’m not sure it’s great. But for breakouts and concurrent session, I’d much rather have in the experts like yourself that could engage in conversation about the talk….maybe I’ll talk to do about doing something like that for us/me.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Dean,
I just got around to listening to this podcast. You said a lot of things that needed to be said. It blows my mind when I hear resistance to sharing their materials from people in higher education. I really wonder what’s behind it (selfishness, insecurity, ignorance, plagiarism?).
Our students are already putting themselves out there through Facebook, etc. so why do we insist on keeping their learning behind walls?