Comments on: Help The ISTE Connects Team Livestream NECC

By: Christina Hum

Christina Hum — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:42 +0000

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

By: Peg

Peg — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:21:13 +0000

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.

By: Christina Hum

Christina Hum — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:42:27 +0000

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

By: Joe Corbett

Joe Corbett — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:11:12 +0000

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!

By: Bill Freese

Bill Freese — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:55:17 +0000

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.

By: Joe Corbett

Joe Corbett — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:31:52 +0000

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.

By: Scott Merrick

Scott Merrick — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:59:24 +0000

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.