After quite a bit of deliberation and a fair bit of angst I have made my ULearn08 selections. Fickle creature that I am a few of the my, ‘I really want to go to that,’ sessions were on in times that I was presenting myself. It’s a shame my two tasters are in different breakouts. I think I will just try and gatecrash the second half of someone else’s workshop when I have finished. Such is life!
Also of course really looking forward to catching up and spending time with good friends from overseas & closer to home and also meeting people I have met through my network who I feel I know but who I probably won’t recognise unless they come dressed as their avatar!
Breakout One- Keeping Competencies Complex- what happens when we listen to kids? Jennifer Carteris & Robyn Foster. I want to see how other people are getting to grips with the key competencies in the new curriculum.
Breakout Two Taster- Twitter- building your network. Twitter ID.
Breakout Three Taster- Cool Adobe Applications for Free. Me.
Breakout Four- Podcasting. Wiki.
Breakout Five- Network Literacy- Levering the Potential of a Hyperlinked World. Will Richardson. A F2F session will be great.
Breakout Six- Marina View Television- Colin Gover. Using my copy of Adobe Visual Communicator with my fellow Adobe Educational Leader.
Breakout Seven- Unconference. To play and learn and twitter and Skype I should imagine!
Now I thought I would offer a little something to the Unconference- any requests???
Ewan McIntosh’s Perfect Tools for planning an Unconference sounds like a lot of fun but I wonder if people would go for it. I think it would be just grand if we could have enough people that wanted to share that we could run his People Picker– give everyone a bit of a look at something new , maybe Ustream it for Chrissy now in Bangkok and have a bit of a laugh. A bit of speed geeking would be the idea.
Hope everyone decides to go to the Breakout Seven Unconference so other people will be at the one that I go to.
Teachmeet08 at the Scottish Learning Festival would be worth a visit …. there will be a Flashmeeting there … http://teachmeet.pbwiki.com:80/TeachMeet08_SLF2008
Choices, choices… It came down to a mad rush to get booked when they finally came ‘live’ and like you I find myself presenting at the same time as the workshops I had most wanted to go to. Even the unconference is clashing with the ‘must see’ workshop and the one I am presenting. To me, as long as we get lots of innovative thinking time it doesn’t matter so much where it occurs – as long as it happens. Then it is a satisfying event. And of course the catching up with old friends and making new ones is so important.
Yay, go the unconference in breakout 7!!! I’ll be there.
Aah Allanah – I am sooo envious that you’ll will be attending Ulearn 08 @ChCh. Sadly I am not allowed to go this year (tears!!) (no funds. I will have to wait for next year @ Sky City. I am sure you will be updating your edublog daily during the conference, sharing ideas, links etc, etc.
We can arrange a date and time when you will skype me in (UN kreeraman).
Counting on you and Rachel for all the fantastic learning I will be missing out on!! Have an awesome conference and wonderful time networking.
Kree Raman
Room 8 Teacher (Y 4/5)
Kelvin Road School
Auckland
0272967094
kree4sai@gmail.com
Congratulations to you to Allanah on your selection. We should try to meet up prior to the festivities kicking off. I arrive on the Tuesday afternoon. And as you say may the best persons win!
I’ll be so busy running around with the media team that I won’t be accessing a lot of the sessions like the unconference I would otherwise head to. Hmmm…maybe I’ll have to get them to cover that event in depth!