Upcoming Presentations…

I’ve put together a list of presentations I’ll be doing over the next several months.
In order to do away with the traditional “speaker knows all” mentality of many conferences, I’ve decided to add a wiki component to keynotes and presentations. When approved by conference organizers, I will post a rough overview of my presentation in a wiki (in advance of the event), and ask potential participants to provide their views, questions, and input into the session (I will be doing this with ePortfolio 2006 and Online Educa). Not sure if conference participants want this type of dialogue with speakers, but it’s a simple experiment that may yield valuable learning experiences. If you expect to be at eportfolio 2006 or Online Educa, I would appreciate your input (I’ll make more information available on both conference in the next week or so).
Hopefully, this will result in sessions that are more focused on the interests (and context) of particular audiences.
Anyone attending the conference circuit knows that things are changing - dialogue is occurring prior to and following a conference. The hard “start/stop” view is giving way to a conference model that permits greater discourse.