Right now, I'm between Day 1 of the 2008 Learning Design Summer Camp and the evening "Food for Thought" dinner at Mad Mex, so I thought I'd get in my blog post for the day. Day 1 went very well. We had a few glitches with the audio system at first, but we got them worked out by 9:30.
The room began to really fill up around 9:45 and I noticed the "name tag" that Cole filled out:
His "name tag" says "My community is ... Kick Ass!" Yep, that's the attitude we are trying to cultivate. Fun, energetic, communal, inspired, but also genuine and focused on real issues that we all face.
At 10:00, I did my welcome presentation and talked about how the event is "by the community, for the community". It's a very democratic philosophy of event planning.
At 10:30, Cole and Scott did their talk on how they integrated social tools into their graduate course. That was our first use of the Live Question Tool (also used at the Berkman@10 conference) and it went well. We're thinking of creating a tool like that, based on the Movable Type platform. At 11:30, it was time for the "Birds of a Feather" lunches around campus. We gave our meal cards and mugs to participants and they wandered off to various on-campus dining locations. I went to Cole's session, where we continued to talk about integrating social tools into courses.
After lunch, we had the Lightning Talk sessions: 10 presentations, 10 minutes each, with an incentive for getting finished in time. I intentionally went over time when I was doing my wikis/Google Docs talk, so the other presenters would know how freaking loud the bell was. It worked. Most people finished in just under 10 minutes. Chris Millet did his lightning talk about Digital Commons:
At 3:00, we had a 1/2 hour break, so people could talk, use the rest room, and get something from the cafe (using the Library mugs). It was also a good time to check out the Technology Timeline that shows when we have implemented some educational technologies at Penn State and where people think we will be in a few years. Jeff Swain and Dave Stong put this together. Here is Jeff taking a picture of his masterpiece:
At 3:30, we had our final talk. Matt Jackson talked to us about the incredibly complex issues of copyright law, the TEACH Act, fair use (including news use, parody, etc...), mashups, and so forth. It will be a good resource for our new Copyright Perspectives site.
And then we ended the day with our pitch session, where the people who were organizing talks on Day 2 could "pitch" their topic to the audience. At the end of the day, I think we all felt a little like the image below.
Yeah, it was a good day.
The room began to really fill up around 9:45 and I noticed the "name tag" that Cole filled out:
His "name tag" says "My community is ... Kick Ass!" Yep, that's the attitude we are trying to cultivate. Fun, energetic, communal, inspired, but also genuine and focused on real issues that we all face.
At 10:00, I did my welcome presentation and talked about how the event is "by the community, for the community". It's a very democratic philosophy of event planning.
At 10:30, Cole and Scott did their talk on how they integrated social tools into their graduate course. That was our first use of the Live Question Tool (also used at the Berkman@10 conference) and it went well. We're thinking of creating a tool like that, based on the Movable Type platform. At 11:30, it was time for the "Birds of a Feather" lunches around campus. We gave our meal cards and mugs to participants and they wandered off to various on-campus dining locations. I went to Cole's session, where we continued to talk about integrating social tools into courses.
After lunch, we had the Lightning Talk sessions: 10 presentations, 10 minutes each, with an incentive for getting finished in time. I intentionally went over time when I was doing my wikis/Google Docs talk, so the other presenters would know how freaking loud the bell was. It worked. Most people finished in just under 10 minutes. Chris Millet did his lightning talk about Digital Commons:
At 3:00, we had a 1/2 hour break, so people could talk, use the rest room, and get something from the cafe (using the Library mugs). It was also a good time to check out the Technology Timeline that shows when we have implemented some educational technologies at Penn State and where people think we will be in a few years. Jeff Swain and Dave Stong put this together. Here is Jeff taking a picture of his masterpiece:
At 3:30, we had our final talk. Matt Jackson talked to us about the incredibly complex issues of copyright law, the TEACH Act, fair use (including news use, parody, etc...), mashups, and so forth. It will be a good resource for our new Copyright Perspectives site.
And then we ended the day with our pitch session, where the people who were organizing talks on Day 2 could "pitch" their topic to the audience. At the end of the day, I think we all felt a little like the image below.
Yeah, it was a good day.
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