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Permalink Reply by Anna Moses on February 13, 2009 at 9:50am

I am from Arkansas-USA and work at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. I am here to join the conversation about improving conferences. I think this space is one example of new technologies being used to share our knowledge in a more productive and ongoing way.

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Permalink Reply by Jane Overmoe on February 13, 2009 at 9:52am

Hello from Jane in NoDak. I am an instructional designer at a small Tablet PC university. We are shifting to MOODLE this semester and using WIMBA for hybrid and distance students. It's all about great teaching, isn't it? Happy Valentine's Day, Everybody!

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Permalink Reply by Christina Mandrusiak on February 13, 2009 at 10:37am

Hi everyone,

I design/facilitate blended and online learning for NAIT (Edmonton, AB, Canada) and work for the Good Samaritian Society where I am implementing a LMS and LCMS, and developing faculty and learner support programs. Good Sam is a not for profit association offering continuing care, assisted living, dementia cottages, and programs for people with developmental disabilities. We have 4500 employees over 37 sites across Alberta and BC.

I would like to see F2F conferences offer online options for those who are unable to attend in person (both synchronous and asychronous). Our future discussions during this online conference will be valuable as I am currently researching various online options for the delivery of learning and for inhouse conferences as we are a geographically dispersed organization.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Toback on February 13, 2009 at 10:38am

Hi - I'm Steve Toback from Duke University. My group is responsible for helping develop and support collaborative technologies based around digital media: lecture capture, streaming media, media distribution and web and video conferencing as well as involvement in immersive virtual world development. We use a number of web collaboration technologies at the University and have been running a successful program with Adobe Connect for about the last year.

Like everyone we are looking for ways to simultaneously expand collaborative opportunities as well as save costs through reduction in physical travel.

http://oit.duke.edu/web-multimedia/multimedia/index.html

http://dukedigitalinitiative.duke.edu/

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Permalink Reply by Kingsley Hurlington on February 13, 2009 at 11:15am

Good Day

I work at Trent University in the School of Education and Professional Learning. I have a background in Computer Science, Geography (geotechnologies), education and educational research.

I am thrilled when I think of the potential of these virtual conferences but it seems that they have yet to deliver on their promises. There is so much that could be happening in this online space -- what is preventing that potential from being realized? Clearly, there are limits to how often and how many one can attend F2F.

On the geotechnology side of things, where is the spatial data illustrating where people are in the world? I can see the members but there is no visualization of our geographical distribution. A map is essential in these situations because of country/regional differences and the possibility of F2F meetings. This is one simple example of how these online spaces have yet to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Charmaine Brooks on February 13, 2009 at 11:29am

I'm a PhD student and educational developer at the university of Alberta. I am in the middle of a critical analysis of Alberta's educational policy. My career interests have allowed me to explore professional development models and I look forward to considering how technology can enhance learning and create connections. I'm intrigued by this conference - both the content and the structure. It seems we have vastly underutilized technology thus far.
Looking forward to *meeting* the community.
Cheers from frosty Edmonton!

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Permalink Reply by Dotty Sammons on February 13, 2009 at 11:41am

I am a faculty member at a state university. Our department has graduate programs in Instructional Technology and Instructional Design (and I teach in both). I am interested in exploring the social/professional potential of virtual conferences, as well as their effectiveness in disseminating information. At a time when travel funding might be the first thing to be cut, looking for ways to interact meaningfully with the larger professional community virtually and at distance is very important.

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Permalink Reply by Ted Christensen on February 13, 2009 at 1:03pm

I'm interested in exploring how new technologies and the new social networks can be used to support e-learning for adults. I've been involved in e-learning for many years, but it seems the new social networks can open up entirely new opportunities to move more traditional e-learning programs into entirely new markets. It's all about learning, and how best to provide new skills and knowledge for personal and professional growth. Looking forward to this virtual conference.

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Permalink Reply by Ghaida Alayyar on February 15, 2009 at 9:17am

I'm a PhD student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. I am interested in exploring how new technologies and the new social networks can be used to support teachers especially pre-service teachers.
Currently I am using TPACK as a framework for effective technology integrating into practice. And try to assess what kind of support pre-service teachers need while working with TPCAK framework

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Kumuda Gururao on February 15, 2009 at 11:49am

Hi,

I am a Learning Consultant and Business Developer for c2workshop, an elearning company, and also take up independent assignments.For details you can visit, www.advisor2u.com.

I have earlier attended SITE conference at Albuquerque and an ardent supporter of utilizing ICT tools for education. Interested to know how well ICT tools can play an important role in traditional conference.

I have done my Ph.D in Science Education (learning strategies) from University of Madras, India and MBA in Software Marketing & IT from IICT, India.

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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Johnston on February 15, 2009 at 2:51pm

Hi everybody,

I'm here because the approach of Open Space Technology has currently entered my radar, and made me think about how we organized large groups of people coming together to learn and exhange ideas. I have participated in MooseCamp which is based on BarCamp and the experience was inspiring.

I an educational developer and currently working as an Instructional Development Consultant at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Carr on February 15, 2009 at 2:55pm

Thanks to George and the AACE team for initiating this conversation and opening it to the world. The standard model for face to face conferences is highly problematic because of the limited opportunities for reflective engagement and community building as you rush from one quick presentation to the next. I hope that this online conversation will better equip us with principles to design convivial face to face conferences which support reflection, connection and playful experimentation.

I work in staff development at the Centre for Educational Technology at University of Cape Town where we have a strong focus on growing communities of practice of educators who teach with technology. One of my passions is the design and facilitation of effective online conferences. In partnership with colleagues at University of Cape Town I have led the e/merge online conferences on the effective use of educational technology in Africa in 2004, 2006 and 2008. From our experiences thusfar it seems that an online conference can promote reflective engagement about practices and processes among practitioners and researchers while also addressing high travel costs and limiting carbon footprints.

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