The International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology 2008 (iCTLT) Digitalstorytelling » home. ISTE Classroom Observation Tool. Top News - ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers. Thoughts on conferences. So the first full day of NECC 2008 comes to an end and I find myself thinking more about conferences, how to create them, manage them, and make them relevant to participants then I thought I would.
Have I mentioned the conference we’re doing in Shanghai? I’ve been thinking a lot about spaces and how important it is to create spaces for learning and conversing at the conference. Today I ran into cognitive overload. Ewan McIntosh does a beautiful job of explaining exactly how I was feeling today. At one point I literally had to find a quiet corner in the Hyatt to just take a breathe and relax. So here are my thoughts on designing and organizing a conference. Pace: The pace of the conference is an important aspect to consider. I don’t know what the perfect size of a session is but close to 400 people per presentation seems a little big to me, and some of the rooms here were never made to hold 400 people (some have been closed to participants due to fire code violations).
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If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Great news! Thanks to comments from Mike Muir and Tammy Worcester on my blog this morning and yesterday, I was alerted to ISTE’s announcement emailed to NECC 2008 presenters at 23:15 GMT on 21 June 2008 (yesterday evening here in US Central time): Dear NECC Presenter:ISTE recently disseminated a code of conduct regarding video and audio recordings at NECC 2008 which has generated some thoughtful and energetic discussion.We welcome your interest and comments and would like to clarify and amend the code of conduct for NECC 2008.
We …have had great internal conversations in the last 24 hours about how best to respond. On this day.. » ISTE Changes This Year’s Policy; Bloggers Still Lose Bud the Teacher. I guess the biggest frustration to me regarding the “Oh no – we didn’t realize the policy and now we’re certain that ISTE’s out to get independent media and citizen journalists and quash the edupunks and destroy any chance of education reform ever in the history of forever!” Hysteria over ISTE’s NECC audio/video policy is that so many of my colleagues, people whom I respect and value, are probably going to end today or start next week thinking that this conversation and its tone was/is/shall forever be a fine example of the power of blogs and new media to make change.
And that would be wrong. # The problem I have with seeing this as a victory is that the bloggers in this one come out looking like a cross between Chicken Little and Tony Soprano. I’ll be the first to say that I’m pleased to see the policy changed , albeit temporarily. We’d never let our students get away with this type of conclusion jumping and invective.
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