Flexknowlogy - Jared Stein » 2009 http://jaredstein.org Education, Technology, Culture, and the Internet Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Slides, Video from WCET09 http://jaredstein.org/2009/10/23/slides-video-from-openness-in-education-pres/ http://jaredstein.org/2009/10/23/slides-video-from-openness-in-education-pres/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:44:24 +0000 Jared Stein http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/?p=896 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.

On Thursday I shared an hour with Terri Rowenhorst of NROC introducing folks at WCET 2009 to open education and some of the ideas and directions orbiting around it. Mine was just a half-hour pres, and didn’t get into some of the meatier bits that interest me; nonetheless the slides and video may be of interest:

You may have already heard some of the Twitter buzz about Chris Lott’s presentation, “Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis”, so here are links to his slides, video, and wiki:

Chris let me moderate this session, and it was exciting to monitor the backchannels on Twitter and ustream for questions, ideas, or challenges that I could interrupt him with. As always, Chris did a fabulous job presenting a continual stream of rich ideas on technology and learning. I must admit I may have underestimated both Chris and the WCET audience prior to the session; both seemed quite comfortable with complex and provocative notions embedded in our connected culture and interplaying with Ong’s concept of a “secondary orality”.

]]> http://jaredstein.org/2009/10/23/slides-video-from-openness-in-education-pres/feed/ 3 Geared Up for TTIX this Week http://jaredstein.org/2009/06/01/ready-for-ttix-this-week-i-am/ http://jaredstein.org/2009/06/01/ready-for-ttix-this-week-i-am/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:47:24 +0000 Jared Stein http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/?p=719

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!

So let me formally thank and welcome everyone who’s planning on coming to Orem, Utah June 3-5 to present, participate, sponsor, exhibit, help or support. We know some people could not travel this year due to tightening budgets, but we hope to offset that with a sepcial announcement:

Instead of taping and archiving this year’s sessions, we are going to try to live stream each and every TTIX session via UStream. This means that participants from around the world will have a chance to watch and engage with TTIX live audiences via the backchannel. I’ll post more on this soon at http://ttix.org

Finally, of course, Marc and I will be tracking your participation in TTIX via social media to crown this year’s Grand Poobah, and give out some sweet prizes. Every blog post, Twitter update, Flickr photo, Delicious bookmark that you tag TTIX (#TTIX on Twitter) will count towards your effort to claim this coveted award, if you sign up.

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