- What are your thoughts on the conference?
- What sessions have been meaningful to you? What sessions would you recommend people go back and view the archives?
- What ideas are you going to put into your professional practice?
- What would you like to see next year if we pull this off again?
- How do we best reach educators in other countries?
- Do you have any stories about magical moments during the conference? Moments when something interesting happened or you came to a realization about education?
Let's talk about what we've learned! Share anything and everything here!
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I was very impressed by Ed Gragert's presentation about teaching students about bringing peace into the world through global education. This was the magical moment for me because I feel I really understand why we are doing global projects after hearing his talk. I also enjoyed Hall Davidson. He is a great speaker and always thinking outside the box.
I am planning to show teachers Ed Gragert's presentation if it is still available during our next day of staff development. We will then be joining existing global projects or writing our own. I have already shared this idea with teachers and they our very excited.
It is hard for me to say what you could possibly change for next year. It was so well done, ran so smoothly, and had such great presentations I guess I am just hoping for more of the same.
If possible, some of the presentations would be more interesting if it was a video conference where attendees could see the presenter.
Thank you for the amazing opportunity you provided with this conference.
Liz Whaley
Riverside Public Schools, Riverside, IL
As a participant, I really enjoyed the conference. It was a great opportunity to benefit from many many sessions on different topics online with no fee of course! which was a big advantage. I like all those session related to e-learning, online learning, web 2.0, social media.
Indeed it had been taken a lot of resources and energy to manage such a big online conference. Thanks to all organizers and moderators. It was well-organized on Elluminate which was a great platform for conducting these sorts of online sessions. The recordings which are available on your website is a great idea too.
I think such a great initiative promote open education, networked learning and enhance networking among educational researchers, educators, administrators etc. in a global level.
I am looking forward for the next year event which I hope to be informed well in advance to be prepared enough for a good planning.
Perhaps something not good for me at least was coincidence of some sessions which I had to choose one to participate. Of course, there is no way to solve it and recording the sessions for further references is the best way to overcome that.
I would greatly appreciate all your works and encourage these kinds of events globally.
I have already viewed one session and have so many more that I am interested in viewing... don't know how I can find the time to bake that turkey this week!
Thanks so much! I have already sent some links to faculty members at Fort Worth Academy. We are a K-8 high tech school, always looking for global collaborations!
I would like to see sessions focusing on 21st C instructional strategies-- specific practices easily adoptable by elementary, middle and high school level educators who seek to engage and align teaching practices with 21st C skills and knowledge framework.
I did find that the challenges are universal... watching the chat window validated that educators across the globe face similar struggles shifting instructional practice away from the "sage on the stage" to engaged, student-centered learning.
Thank you for an amazing conference. I love that I can tap all the recordings of the many sessions I missed.
Jan
- Allow member tagging of sessions. For example, I made a collection of math sessions for my math communities:
Descriptions
Links to recordings - Linda Stojanovska helped
It took some doing, and I probably missed some sessions... Tagging would help, and there are existing tools for that.
If we make a separate call for community members to invite tracks from other countries, and explain how, we could have that happening. It would probably take translating the designated announcement, and forwarding it to some key people and networks in that country. We could crowdsource translations through existing tools, again, similarly to what TED does for closed captioning.
As mentioned in the closing session, I believe that for maximum reach we should re-index the presentations by conference stream and in logical order--not in the chronological order in which they were presented. Maybe we could ask all presenters to submit an outline of their presentations with the main points; some of the presenters were working from a text or script that could probably be recaptured from them and submitted to a central collection point. We could use the descriptive paragraphs as a start (e.g. "Abstract"), but two of the presentations I attended veered afield from both the title and the contents of the teaser paragraphs. Together, we can undoubtedly refine this thought much further. As a former large conference organizer, I'd be happy to volunteer to be part of this "capture" exercise, although I am not a technologist. Perhaps there are some out there who know just the right free technology to use for creating "proceedings". Maybe something as simple as creating four separate proceedings .pdf docs--one for each stream. This is something that we should put out very quickly imo.
I hope that everyone involved with the conference is enjoying a well-deserved, head-clearing rest.
To me, one of the refreshing aspects of this conference was the lack of "policy meetings" or the requisite "annual general meeting" that seems to be an aspect of many conferences. The conference was truly an "educational" opportunity.
I am currently helping to plan the first, inaugural, Online Conference for Music Therapy (OCMT2011), to be held on March 5-6, 2011. We are planning to utilize the Elluminate software, as well as Moodle.
Q: How do we get participants to recognize the value in an online conference, while removing the "face-to-face" and "requisite meetings" aspect of a traditional conference?
Your ideas and comments would be appreciated, as well as ideas regarding where we might go in order to obtain funding/underwriting of the conference (unlike most music therapy conference, this was an idea that was created outside of the normal music therapy associations, hence - no underwriting of the costs associated with the conference for things such as the cost of the Elluminate subscription, web hosting, banking fees, etc.). I would, personally, love to see a conference without registration fees, similar to what I experienced at GlobalEdCon!
Sincerely,
John Lawrence MMT, MTA
Chairperson, OCMT2011
For more information about this conference, please visit:
Facebook group: OCMT2011 - Online Conference for Music Therapy
Twitter: #OCMT2011
Website: ocmt2011.webs.com
Blog: onlineconference4mt.wordpress.com
E-mail: ocmt2011@gmail.com
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