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It looks like the University of Calgary is planning a series of TEDx events: TEDxUofC – the first one being next week, just days after the TEDxYYC event.
After previously saying I wouldn’t go to a TEDx event because of the way they’re set up, I’m happy to post that they don’t have to be that [...]
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The Open Education conference last week was easily one of the best conferences I’ve ever participated in. It was intense, incredibly run, thoughtfully planned, and brought together an extremely diverse and intelligent group of people. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so intimidated by the sheer number of scary-smart people in the same [...]
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My travel for the 2007 Open Education conference in Logan, Utah was approved. I’ve never been to Open Education, but it sounds like an amazing event. And, to top it off, I get to present with Jim, hang out with Brian and Scott, and meet David in person.
I still need to figure out the logistics [...]
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Brian just posted about Northern Voice 2007, which will be hosted in Cyprien Lomas‘ palacial treehouse on the UBC main campus. I’m going. The first two NV events were awesome (the first was the best conference I’ve been a part of).
With more room to spread the sessions out, and in a more flexible, amazing new learning space, this is going to be one helluvan unconference. Here’s hoping they dial back the femmie quotient on the conference T-shirt this year, though…
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I was contacted this morning by someone from Lexi.net to let me know about the upcoming “Your Online Identity” conference in Calgary on November 17, 2006. I hadn’t heard of the event before, so had to check out the conference website for info. It sounds like a really cool event. Not as by-the-people-for-the-people as Northern Voice, but still sounds interesting. They’ve lined up an impressive list of speakers, including The Dooce herself.
I think it’s pretty cool to have an event like this in Calgary. I’ve been toying around with the idea of a Northern Voice YYC since I went to the first Northern Voice YVR. I’m not sure Calgary’s ready – Vancouver’s much more plugged-in and seems more aligned with the whole “web 2.0″ / blogging / yaddayadda stuff. But, maybe this is a sign…
I’ll try to make it to the Lexi.net event. It’s definitely not as inexpensive as NV, at $125 for the day, but I’ll try to make the case for it.
Update: I’m in. Looking forward to it!
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Stephen Downes is hosting a keynote at BCEdOnline 2006 (Thursday April 20, 2:45-3:45pm) and was gracious enough to invite Brian and myself to take a ride on his coattails to join him on stage for the keynote. I’m going to fly into Vancouver just for the day (and will try to be as awake as possible during the keynote).
We’re planning to do something rather less conventional. Not quite an “un-keynote” – but more of a discussion or fireside chat, directed by the audience. It’d be pretty presumptuous not to tap into the audience for an event like this, so an open discussion-slash-Q&A session seemed more fitting. Likely not quite to the level of managed chaos that we were able to achieve for the Social Software Salon, perhaps more akin to the Edublogger Hootenanny.
But, for it to work, audience participation is key. It doesn’t have to be in-person participation, either. I borrowed a spot on Brian’s wiki to hold a list of potential topics/questions to be brought up during the session. If the lines at the microphone don’t form, we can fall back on these.
If you’re going to BCEdOnline, or just have some ideas about what should be discussed, please surf on over to the wiki page and edit to your heart’s content!
I’m not sure, but I’d guess the session will be recorded somehow for sharing afterwards with the rest of the class…
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It’s a busy time for edtech conferences online. First, HigherEdBlogCon is running, now Cole Camplese and friends are putting on a shindig at Penn State, and sharing it with all of us!
Cole sent me a link to their Teaching & Learning with Technology Symposium website – a Wordpress site running a nice K2 theme. How cool is that, for a campus-wide symposium at a huge university to be driving the online resource for the event in an open source blogging app?
The agenda for the event looks pretty interesting. Everything from the usual suspects to “The Strategies of a Dog Who Finally Caught the Car” – sounds like Alan might have had an influence 
Anyway, thanks to Cole for sending the link, and thanks to Penn State for sharing this symposium with the rest of us!
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I just about spaced and missed this online conference on “blogging” in higher education: HigherEdBlogCon 2006 (thanks for the reminder, Brian!)
The first round of online events (April 3-7 – right now!) is on the teaching implications of blogging. Topics like case studies, integration with LMS, blogs as personal learning environments, information literacy, etc…
The next round of events (April 10-14) is on library & info resources, followed by admissions/alumni/marketing (April 17-21) and websites & web development (April 24-28).
I’ll try to keep track of the events as the occur, but am assuming/hoping they’ll all be available in archive form for use/reuse after the conference.
Oh, and it’s free. That ain’t not half bad. It’s going to be bad to take over Flickr like we did for Northern Voice 2006, but it’s a start…
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Theme: Alberta’s Renaissance: Imagine the Possibilities
Begins: Wed, 10 May 2006 at 9:00 AM
Ends: Fri, 12 May 2006 at 6:00 PM
Location:
University of Lethbridge Campus Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Registration fee: $225
Last date for registration: Wed, 10 May 2006
Last date for paper submission: Wed, 15 Mar 2006
Organizer: Jonathan Lane
Link: Conference Website
I’ll be attending Interface 2006, the Alberta provincial distance education conference. It’s in Lethbridge this year, so a few of us will be making the trip south. This will be my first Interface conference, so I’m not really sure what to expect, but it sounds like it’s a pretty good event. I’ve got a proposal in to present on the ePortfolio project we’re working on, so if that’s accepted I’ll be sharing the stage with Patti while we show what we’ve come up with so far.
I’ll be bringing my camera, and will be posting photos to Flickr using the “interface2006″ tag – if everyone does that with their own photos, we’ll have an on-the-fly conference photo album.
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I just cashed in all of my Aeroplan miles for a return flight to Northern Voice 2006. I’m SOOOOO looking forward to those couple of days in Vancouver. I’m skipping the DrupalCon that’s in town the week prior to NV so I’m not away from the family toooo much… I was originally planning on hitting both events to gather ideas for the seemingly endless lineup of Drupal-related projects we’re working on at the Learning Commons, but will settle for lurking on whatever online component they have, and catching the Coles Notes version during Moose Camp…
Booking the tickets through the Aeroplan program was less painful than I expected, but they sure have a weird method of selecting flights – they provided me with about 10 preselected combinations of flights on the days I selected. I couldn’t just pick the individual flights with the times I wanted. I suppose that’s the tradeoff for cashing in on an almost-free trip…
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