http://sites.wiki.ubc.ca/opened09/index.php/Virtual_Attendee_List
So the conference has begin and I am frankly overwhelmed to see the 200 or so amazing folks who have come together in Vancouver around “Open Education.” But this movement is far larger than that, it’s a global movement, and we are doing our best as organizers to help folks who couldn’t make the journey participate in various ways. In addition to streaming every session live via the conference uStream feeds, many folks are following along on the extensive twitter coverage via the #opened09 tag.
And that’s not all - I am SO chuffed as an organizer to see this community of network learners creating their own ways of interacting, without any help or coordination.
If you’ve found yourself accessing any of these, we’d love if you’d consider adding yourself to the list of “virtual attendees” - both as a way for people here to connect with you, and also to help demonstrate to our sponsors how the conference has had some impact outside of the immediate physical attendees. And please, let s know if there’s anything we can do to help improve your experience, you are an important part of this community and conference too. - Scott
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Thanks for inviting online folk to be part of this conference. I watched Dave Cormier’s session this morning. Amazing! What an excellent communicator. I wanted to pause him after every few sentences since I wanted to write his words down verbatim. I was also following the chat about #opened09 on Twitter at the time. His name was appearing a lot.
I wrote a blog entry immediately during and after this experience to let people in my learning community learn how they could participate. Link http://rielliott.blogspot.com/2009/08/dave-cormier-big-wow-at-opened09.html Is there a place on the conference wiki to post these blog posts? I’m sure mine won’t be the only one about the conference. Ann Taylor, who is attending the conference, is blogging and posting about each session she attends.
Thanks again for opening this up to we online participants.
Ruth
Ruth, awesome! so glad to hear you are finding the uStream and twitter streams useful. As to seeing other blog posts on the topic, try http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=opened09&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d - it should get you most of them, and we will aggregate these into the conference wiki as well. Thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, Scott Leslie
Hi Guys,
Would love to sign up for your wiki as a virtual attendee but your captcha isn’t displaying in any browser I use. Don’t know if anyone else is having this problem too.
Cheers
Mark
Love that you’re streaming the conference presentations. One suggestion would be to provide a world clock calendar link for the benefit of us people on the other side of the world (see http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/ as an example)
Cheers
Ken
Ken, sorry to hear this - if it helps, the wiki now supports OpenID logins as well which hopefully gets you around the captcha issue.
Mark, great suggestion, not sure we’ll get to it with everything else going on right now, but I guess I’d note the conference is in Vancouver BC for anyone needing to do their own time zone conversions.
Just to let you know, I tried to log in via OpenID and got a verification error. So here’s one more person digitally attending the conference.
It’s been great so far. The UStream is wonderful for this, though I haven’t participated in the twitter conversations so far. Maybe I’ll play with that via tweedeck tonight and tomorrow.
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