SITE 2007 in San Antonio, Texas

              Wes, Darren and I have been selected to give a panel presentation on the K12Online 2006 Conference in San Antonio on March 30. However we want our panel to have more diversity than just the conveners perspective.

We would love to have a K12 Online Conference participant and presenter join us. If you are planning attending the Society for Technology and Teacher Education conference  and either presented or attended the K12Online06 please let us know. We would love for you to be a part of our panel discussion.

Also if you would like to weigh in with your comments about any of the topics below-- please feel free to share your insight in the comment section.

Want to view the conference content and lost track of how? Access all the presentations here:
http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online06-agenda.html


Here is the abstract for the SITE conference:

Abstract:

The K12 Online Conference 2006 (http://k12onlineconference.org) is a free conference for educators worldwide held online and focused on the theme of “Unleashing the Potential” of Web 2.0 technologies in schools. In Fall 2006, the conveners who comprise this panel organized the first K12 Online Conference as a free event incorporating both web-posted, asynchronously accessed presentation content as well as a series of live events for presenters and participants. This panel will provide a forum for conference conveners to share their experiences and “lessons learned” from this well attended and successful international learning event.

Proposed Panel Discussion Topics:

1.   Background of the conference: Importance of Web 2.0, Reality of global connected learning in the Edu-Blogosphere, Non-Commercial/Free Ethos

2.   Statistics on attendance, participation, and post-conference evaluation results

3.  Conference Organizing Tools: VOIP (Skype) and Wikis (Pbwiki.com and Wikispaces.com), Survey Monkey, Dropload.com, MediaMax (for files >100MB), Google spreadsheets, gmail.

4.   Free versus Commercial Influences: Issues with Sponsorship (Elluminate, edublogs, College of William and Mary), Graduate Credit, Marketing, and Web Hosting

5.   Live Events: Collaboration Tool (Elluminate, Skype, Tapped-In) Strengths and Weaknesses

6.   Open Content: Issues of Copyright, Attribution, and Creative-Commons licensing

7.  Participant Interaction and Collaboration: Blog comments, Blog posts, Podcasts, Wiki pages, live events, self-sustaining momentum (When Night Starts Freefalling), community building

8.   Assessment and Learning: Measuring and Demonstrating the Value of Online Professional Development
 

Comments

[Carolyn Foote]

Hi--I'm in Austin, Texas and participated in the conference.

I hadn't planned on attending Site but if you are still looking for someone for the panel, let me know.

I did attend several sessions, plus the Skype night-falling, and the Tapped In conversation. So while I'm sure I wasn't as immersed as some, I was so enthused about the whole project and fascinated by the sessions I attended!