http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/21/tonights-net2blazers-presentation/ a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/21/tonights-net2blazers-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Karen Church Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:30:06 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/21/tonights-net2blazers-presentation/#comment-53 Congratulations must go to the 5 presenters from last night. The technology was complex but it worked. We must continue to be inclusive and provide opportunities for people to attend via distance. Some of the comments from the 15 sites that attended via Centra last night were: Jason Plunkett: I hope they offer more T&D like this, it is great how distances are no longer an issue Kathy Smerdon: Yes I'm 2000km away at Ayres Rock! Al Wiese: I'm on West Terrace, but the traffic is murder at this time of day :-) Jason Plunkett: lol Kathy Smerdon: We not only need to keep asking for PD online, but keep promoting to other teachers also. Jenny Rossiter: this has been great …. I've enjoyed having a cuppa at the same time as listening and also not having to pay for a babysitter in order to do PD! My husband has cooked tea as well - I'll have to do online PD again!!!!!! Tanya Hacket: Thanks Enver for your organisation of Centra link. Only have a five minute trip home as compared to over 2 hours if I was attending at TSoF. Christine Haynes: “Terrific presentation. Working at home, I've been able to multitask myself, looking at sites, doing 6 things at once, texting with other attendees.... Thanks!” Congratulations must go to the 5 presenters from last night. The technology was complex but it worked. We must continue to be inclusive and provide opportunities for people to attend via distance. Some of the comments from the 15 sites that attended via Centra last night were:
Jason Plunkett: I hope they offer more T&D like this, it is great how distances are no longer an issue
Kathy Smerdon: Yes I’m 2000km away at Ayres Rock!
Al Wiese: I’m on West Terrace, but the traffic is murder at this time of day :-)
Jason Plunkett: lol
Kathy Smerdon: We not only need to keep asking for PD online, but keep promoting to other teachers also.
Jenny Rossiter: this has been great …. I’ve enjoyed having a cuppa at the same time as listening and also not having to pay for a babysitter in order to do PD! My husband has cooked tea as well – I’ll have to do online PD again!!!!!!
Tanya Hacket: Thanks Enver for your organisation of Centra link. Only have a five minute trip home as compared to over 2 hours if I was attending at TSoF.
Christine Haynes: “Terrific presentation. Working at home, I’ve been able to multitask myself, looking at sites, doing 6 things at once, texting with other attendees…. Thanks!”

]]> http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/21/tonights-net2blazers-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Teaching Generation Z » Review And Reflect - Web2Showcase Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:19:36 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2006/09/21/tonights-net2blazers-presentation/#comment-51 [...] I have to agree with Mike. It was great to co-present tonight with such passionate educators eager to open up their experience and expertise to the wider educational community. This was to a f2f audience of nearly 60 and out to 9 venues via Centra. Now I reckon that doing demonstrations of Web 2.0/social software/ read/write web stuff is very hard to do via the videoconferencing medium and I think that being conscious of catering for a group of people I couldn’t see interfered with my presentation which I thought was below my own expectations. Luckily, everyone else was brilliant and covered for my not showing how to edit a wiki (conscious that the Centra audience wouldn’t see) and not being able to retrieve my links for StartPages from my wiki when I needed to. As always, a workaround is always necessary but it wasn’t until I was enthralled by Mike’s excellent Mashup that what I already knew dawned on me. If I can’t access a link from a previously identified source that I’ve set up, then my content is re-packaged and re-distributed via RSS in a number of ways that I could have accessed more easily than typing in the URL by hand!! I needed to run my StartPage section from my links page on my wiki but it looked like wikispaces decided to go down right at that moment. (I still maintain that using Internet Explorer was a big factor. Go Firefox! Go Flock!) So, if I was confronted by that in the future, I could have gone straight to my blog or my Bloglines or my PageFlakes feed for my blog and grabbed the links from my StartPages review or gone to Mike’s Bloglines feed for my wiki RSS feed. [...] [...] I have to agree with Mike. It was great to co-present tonight with such passionate educators eager to open up their experience and expertise to the wider educational community. This was to a f2f audience of nearly 60 and out to 9 venues via Centra. Now I reckon that doing demonstrations of Web 2.0/social software/ read/write web stuff is very hard to do via the videoconferencing medium and I think that being conscious of catering for a group of people I couldn’t see interfered with my presentation which I thought was below my own expectations. Luckily, everyone else was brilliant and covered for my not showing how to edit a wiki (conscious that the Centra audience wouldn’t see) and not being able to retrieve my links for StartPages from my wiki when I needed to. As always, a workaround is always necessary but it wasn’t until I was enthralled by Mike’s excellent Mashup that what I already knew dawned on me. If I can’t access a link from a previously identified source that I’ve set up, then my content is re-packaged and re-distributed via RSS in a number of ways that I could have accessed more easily than typing in the URL by hand!! I needed to run my StartPage section from my links page on my wiki but it looked like wikispaces decided to go down right at that moment. (I still maintain that using Internet Explorer was a big factor. Go Firefox! Go Flock!) So, if I was confronted by that in the future, I could have gone straight to my blog or my Bloglines or my PageFlakes feed for my blog and grabbed the links from my StartPages review or gone to Mike’s Bloglines feed for my wiki RSS feed. [...]

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