Help The ISTE Connects Team Livestream NECC
This past week the ISTE Connects team began preparing a game plan to livestream NECC 2009. In the interest of audience engagement, we decided to enlist your help in programming our schedule by having you submit your ideas for what we should cover. When NECC actually kicks-off, we’ll do our best to field your questions via Twitter, blog comments, and potentially a chat forum attached to our livestream so we are sure to broadcast content that is relevant to your interests. Use those channels to help us decide what sessions we should attempt to live stream, what questions we should ask session leaders, and what insights you’d like us to get from NECC attendees.
We’ll also be live streaming the Oxford-style debate; you may have already submitted a question to be asked of the panel, but also be ready to chat about it live while taking opinion polls in real-time. Your livestreaming NECC experience depends on your participation, so stock up on snacks and cold beverages because we plan to keep the live stream open as much as possible! That being said, please leave your hopes, ideas, and desires for what we’ll cover at NECC as a comment on this post and we will begin drafting a program schedule that incorporates as much of your suggestions as we possibly can.
If you aren’t aware of what is on the menu for NECC 2009, be sure to visit the official NECC Online Program Guide and dig through the incredible lists of sessions, digital playgrounds, and other stream-worthy NECC experiences.
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Scott Merrick
Wednesday, 17th June 2009 at 3:59 pm
Hey, Joe, where you goin’ with that cam in your hand?
Just had to invoke Jimi Hendrix.
That sounds so great! I’m hearing a bunch of folks saying they can’t make NECC this year, though thankfully that seems to be at least to some degree counterbalanced by many who say it’s their first ever! We’ll be sharing out a lot in Second Life and with luck, streaming into ISTE Island at least intermittently from the Second Life Playground. There is a group at the ISTE Ning called “Virtual NECCers” that’s up to 105 members, too, and I’m trotting over there right after hitting the “publish my content” button to re-post your Livestream information to those folks. Knock it outta the ballpark with your innovative and creative outreach to those who can’t be in D.C.!
http://www.neccning.org/group/virtualneccers is the url for that group, and I hope you’ll be hearing from many of them right here!
My suggestion, btw, is for copious roaming cams at the Playgrounds and the Birds of a Feather sessions. The latter are usually some of the best sessions I attend, because of their interactive and dialog-model design.
Joe Corbett
Wednesday, 17th June 2009 at 4:31 pm
Jimi who? Calm down I’m just kidding! Anyway I’m glad you are excited about this too, we have a pretty sweet setup with a tripod at ISTE Central where we can interview NECC attendees, session leaders, etc. We also have a handheld camera (Nokia N96) so we can walk around untethered to capture the “Raw Experience”. We will also be setting up the tripod at the various playgrounds and the Bloggers Cafe to give everyone congregating there a chance to speak to the audience and take some questions from twitter.
Bill Freese
Thursday, 18th June 2009 at 2:55 pm
Joe,
Please make me feel like I am there. I did not see a “no recording” icon on the keynotes, and would love to see those, of course. Anything relating to NETS is welcome. Also any Second Life sessions. (Yes, Scott told me about this discussion.) I would particularly like to see “Making the Case: Virtual Worlds as Safe, Compelling Learning Environments” and “Personal Learning Networks in Second Life Networks”.
In fact, I bet many in this online crowd would be interested in things related to professional development for those who can’t hit the road, like “Ready-Made or Homemade? How to Choose Online Professional Development ” and/or “30 Years Later: The Best Technology Professional Development”.
We all need to get into mobile, so how about one or two of the many cell phone / smartphone related sessions.
Scott is right about Birds of a Feather. How about “WebQuest Users and Shakers ” or “Games and Simulations Gathering”. Or “Second Life as a Professional Learning Network!” (or is Scott already streaming that somewhere.)
Joe, please be on the look-out for fun stuff. Like “LOL @ NECC: All New, but Still Dangerous “. Being new to NECC (last year was my first) I don’t know who are the “must see” presenters. Ask around for us, will you?
And I would like to see:
Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Teaching Difficult Computing Topics
Computer Programming for Everybody: Python in the Classroom
Science Just Got Game!
Beyond 1:1–21st Century Learning in a Textbook-Free Digital School
Part 2: Virtual Bug-In-Ear Technology–Pioneering the Future of Professional Development
Writing for ISTE Publications
Doing IT Right in Virginia: Instructional Technology Resource Teachers Make the Difference
Claymation in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
and could you whip briefly through the 250+ poster sessions for us? Thanks.
Joe Corbett
Thursday, 18th June 2009 at 8:11 pm
Wow Bill, thanks for doing about 50% of the work I was going to do this weekend! Seriously though that is exactly the insight I was looking for.
Sadly there will be no livestreaming at the keynote but we will be capturing parts of the welcoming ceremony.
I’ll try and capture “specific sessions but session leaders are not obligated to put up with the presence of our livestreaming team so some of that might be based on chance.
I’ve also been kicking around the idea of coming up with 1 or 2 questions that we ask every single person that we get on camera. I think something that has to do with tips about Professional Development and maybe something do with the debate question.
Anyway thanks again, ask your colleagues to visit the post and leave some thoughts. Thanks!
Christina Hum
Saturday, 20th June 2009 at 1:42 pm
I am struggling to understand why NECC is not having Virtual Sessions? Not enough interest? How come some sessions are not accessible via Videoconference (besides the IVC?) No one to run it? Manage it? Connect it?
I am looking through sessions via category and of course am interested in lots from each category, what is feasible for you to webcast?
Here are my general requests, (and could you point a direction (link) where these might be posted):
Any or all of the Spotlight sessions
and the following Lectures:
Game Creation: Epistemic Learning of Art, Design, and Computer Science
Managing Mayhem: Strategies for K-12 Distance Virtual Classrooms
Not Quite Video Games: Electronic Simulations for Teacher Education
Get a Life–a Second Life!
21st-Century Learning through Video Conferencing
Imagination Toolbox: Exploring STEM through Immersive Simulations and Game Programming
Building Powerful Online Courses with Deep Level Web 2.0 Applications
Virtual Institute for Urban Education: Preservice Training in Second Life
Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook on Collaborative Communication
or these BYOL
BEW11 Personal Learning Networks in Second Life Networks
BBT09 Student Phone Projects that ROCK!
BDT07 Teaching Computer Game Design Using Storytelling Alice
BAW13 Cell Phones in the Classroom: Harness the Power for Learning
BBM01 e-learning Classrooms: Engaging Students with Audio
BCM05 SMS: Cell Phones and VoIP in the Classroom Curriculum
BEW12 Using Emerging Technologies to Create Collaborative Learning Environments
and from the Special Events:
EOL Online Learning Institute
Peg
Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 at 8:21 am
Could someone give me a little help? This is my first virtual conference. Can you direct me to where I can get the most out of this experience. Do I have to sign up for workshops or are they just videoed and we can view? Newbie of the 1st order! Thanks in advance for any help offered.
Christina Hum
Thursday, 25th June 2009 at 1:58 pm
Peg I am attempting to do my best to follow NECC as a participant virtually. I am going to share my experience in my NING blog of how I am doing it. Here is the link:
http://www.neccning.org/profiles/blog/list?user=1kp7yg8pbl92w
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