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Permalink Reply by Paul Schumann on January 9, 2009 at 10:50am

I'm a futurist and innovation consultant located in Austin, Texas.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Montgomerie on January 9, 2009 at 11:27am

I'm afraid I'm part of the reason for this Conference. I'm the chair of the ED-MEDIA steering committee. We really need to respond to the criticism "Where is the media in ED-MEDIA?" and hope that this conversation will help us make ED-MEDIA a model of modern conferences. As all good chairs should do, I'm challenging you to tell us what to do (please get it right! :-).
Craig (from sunny, but cold, Edmonton, Alberta)

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Permalink Reply by Olga Firssova on January 9, 2009 at 11:48am

I am teaching a few Master of Science courses in Educational Design at the Dutch Open University (OUNL). One of the courses is designed around conferences on trends in active learning. We have organized 9 day events and one online conference in the 5 years the program exists. This event seems very interesting and promising since I am always in search of enriching the way we organize our conferences..

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Permalink Reply by Sean Connolly on January 9, 2009 at 12:13pm

I am student at the School of Informatics at Indiana University interested in online interactions, online collaboration, and interaction design. In a service project last year, colleagues and I explored what technical and social facets correlate with the 'stickness' of online interaction spaces in order to design an online workshop for new class spread across several geographic locations. We used this information to host a very successful network, the Informatics Moment, this summer on Ning.

I suppose I have been following George Siemens' ERL weekly for awhile and, being also a student in Complex Systems, agree with George extension of mathematical and cognitive connectivism to the diffusion of learning (knowledge) in social environments.

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Permalink Reply by Jane Hart on January 9, 2009 at 12:07pm

I'm Jane Hart, a social media and learning consultant and interested in discussing how social media tools can support and augment all kinds of formal and informal learning events - from courses, training events to conferences, etc.

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Permalink Reply by DolorsCapdet on January 9, 2009 at 12:07pm

I believe that the exchange of views between people with experience in this field can enrich us all and, no doubt, this initiative presents an excellent opportunity.

Best regards from Barcelona, Spain.

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Permalink Reply by Erik Duval on January 9, 2009 at 12:36pm

You can find out more about me than you want to know at http://erikduval.wordpress.com/.

I think that we still under-use technology at conferences. I tried to experiment at elearn in November with a joint presentation with my Great Friend Wayne, who presented from his boat in South America. Remote participation is just one thing we can do more of. Twitter as a backchannel is another. Or dynamically organizing sessions in an unconference kind of way. I'm sure that there are many more things we can do...

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Permalink Reply by Curt Bonk on January 9, 2009 at 1:07pm

Hey, my name is Curt Bonk from Indiana University (IU). Good to see Sean Connolly from the School of Informatics at IU has joined in some 44 minutes ago. I do not know him but it is still good to see that happen! (A shout out to Sean! I am adjunct in your department.) Anyway, I helped Gary Marks, Tom Reynolds, Mimi Lee, and many others run the E-Learn Conference nearly 2 months ago in Las Vegas where I was co-program chair. It was a lot of fun to see the interactions and conversations wrapped around the conference but I know we can do even better. So this February mini-conference or virtual conversation will be a way to see some of this get going. And Ning is a place wherein we can all start to see the power of virtual connections. I hope we can build new networks and budding communities that can carry over to Ed Media in June in Hawaii and then on to E-Learn in Vancouver next October. More on me is at: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/

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Permalink Reply by Curt Bonk on January 9, 2009 at 1:11pm

Sounds like you have great experiences to share Sean. You might think of a mini-research project on how Ning and other technologies are used by AACE for this virtual conversation and other conferences. You might explore how various social factors impact on success. Stop by my office sometime if you want to chat about it. School of Ed: Room 2038; cjbonk@indiana.edu

Sean Connolly said:

I am student at the School of Informatics at Indiana University interested in online interactions, online collaboration, and interaction design. In a service project last year, colleagues and I explored what technical and social facets correlate with the 'stickness' of online interaction spaces in order to design an online workshop for new class spread across several geographic locations. We used this information to host a very successful network, the Informatics Moment, this summer on Ning.

I suppose I have been following George Siemens' ERL weekly for awhile and, being also a student in Complex Systems, agree with George extension of mathematical and cognitive connectivism to the diffusion of learning (knowledge) in social environments.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Maddrell on January 9, 2009 at 1:27pm

Hello ... PhD student in Instructional Design & Technology at Old Dominion University ... any discussion George S. starts has to be interesting :)

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Permalink Reply by Jon Dron on January 9, 2009 at 2:37pm

Where I am from: Athabasca University, Canada, and the University of Brighton, UK, where I teach stuff, research stuff, do the usual academic thing - being a professional learner and doing it as well as I can.
Why I am here: part of what it means to be a professional learner involves making the most of conferences and exploring novel ways to learn.
Something else marginally relevant: my blog is at http://community.brighton.ac.uk/jd29/weblog (one day the sysadmins may enable public comments again, dammit!)

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Permalink Reply by Zoraini Wati Abas on January 9, 2009 at 7:52pm

I'm at the Open University Malaysia (OUM) in Kuala Lumpur. I teach graduate courses in Instructional Technology and also in charge of quality, research and learning innovations at OUM. I was at the eLearn 2008 conference and plan to attend eLearn 2009. Would, of course, love to benefit more from eLearn 2009!

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