Archive for the ‘conferences’ Category

Slides, Video from WCET09

Oct 23, 2009 at 2:44 pm, Jared Stein

I traveled to Denver this week for WCET 2009, and though I was sunk with a cold on the second day, so far I’ve enjoyed participating in the conference, and, as always, have found the Twitter backchannel (#wcet09) a great way to connect with more ideas, and more people (more…)

Re. Communal vs Individual Voice

Aug 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm, Jared Stein

Boone Gorges asked a great question about openness that has been itching at my mind ever since I drove out of Vancouver from Open Ed 2009: Is there a tension between individual vs communal voice (i.e. creation)? (more…)

First Hour of Wiley and Downes Dialogue on Open Ed

Aug 11, 2009 at 10:28 am, Jared Stein

The following is my comments and analysis on the first hour of dialogue between David Wiley and Stephen Downes re. openness and licensing. I want to precede this by recognizing that my point of view is both critical and challenging, though I do so with no desire to be divisive. Details on the conversation and a link(s) to recordings and live stream are available on the Open Ed 2009 wiki (more…)

Notes on eLearning DevCon 2009

Jun 19, 2009 at 2:19 pm, Jared Stein

I attended the 3-day eLearning DevCon 2009 in Salt Lake City this past week, and have compiled some brief notes based on the experience. I summarize the conference as having an enticing depth and knowledge of topics, good “presence” and information from most of the presenters, primarily for corporate e-learning developers (which was a refreshing change), not at all a bargain, and awkwardly spread out across Fort Douglas, though I must admit it was a joy to walk outside in late spring weather (more…)

Limerick Introducing Chris Lott's TTIX Keynote

Jun 5, 2009 at 9:49 pm, Jared Stein

I’ve had a few people ask me to post the limerick that introduce Chris’s closing keynote at TTIX 2009. Here you go!

Deconstructing entrenchments of the fallen aesthete

The future will give us robots
endlessly yielding Great Thoughts
   exceeding Bill Gates
   or the "famous" Socrates
Yes, their brains will be based on Chris Lott's.

If you didn’t see Chris’s talk live, be sure to check out the archive on Ustream.

Geared Up for TTIX this Week

Jun 1, 2009 at 4:47 pm, Jared Stein

Anyone who knows me knows about the Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange, aka TTIX, a small, free conference dedicated to the open exchange of ideas and best practices in distance learning and technology-enhanced education. If I’m not soliciting proposals, I’m soliciting keynotes, or I’m soliciting sponsors, or I’m soliciting participants–and really, the participants are the most important ingredient for a successful idea exchange! (more…)

Plug: Ignite Salt Lake 2

Mar 16, 2009 at 3:45 pm, Jared Stein

Ignite Salt Lake 2, “a community event celebrating the passion and creativity of geek culture” that sounds quite a bit like pecha kucha, is happening March 26th, 2009 at Brewvies Cinema Pub in Salt Lake City, Utah (677 South 200 West).

I didn’t go to Ignite 1, but a 2-hour series of 5-minute presentations (20 slides or less) sounds like the best-ever format for a geek get-together.

Question: will Brewvies’ grill be open for business?

Notes: Brian Lamb's Keynote, The Urgency of Openness

Feb 23, 2009 at 10:10 am, Jared Stein

These notes pertain to Brian Lamb’s keynote on Feb 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon at the ITC 2009 e-Learning conference. Resource/pres page: http://blogs.ubc.ca/open/open-up/ (more…)

PLE Workshop Wrapped Up at WCET08

Nov 6, 2008 at 11:56 am, Jared Stein

Chris Lott captured most of my thoughts and feelings about the Personal Learning Environments All-Day Workshop that we conducted with Scott Leslie, however I wanted to reciprocate to my co-presenters and the participants by posting a few comments and observations (more…)

Personal Learning Environments at WCET 2008

Sep 27, 2008 at 6:03 pm, Jared Stein

Now that Open Ed 2008 is over (I think I’ve written more PHP in two weeks than in the past two years to kick out the re-release of our open educational resources mod for Moodle … more on that next week), I am finally able to direct my energies toward the Next Project: an all-day pre-conference workshop for the 2008 WCET conference held this November in Phoenix, AZ. This workshop is titled Creating Personal Learning Environments with Web 2.0, and I’ll be collaborating with the inestimableChris Lott and Scott Leslie (more…)