NECC & Ning!
This is the first national ed tech conference (as far as I know) to make use of a social network as a value-adding endeavor. My question is this!
What do you wish you could do here?
What do you wish you could do here?
Tags: necc, necc08, ning, social networks
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Permalink Reply by Tim Chase on -
I wish I could pre-know people to hang out with when we get there.
I'd like to hook up with a crowd that has chosen together which sessions to attend and then will debrief together afterwards--when I take people from my school district to local edtech events it's the debriefing that I most value. But at NECC, amid thousands of people, I am alone.
As to something technical I wish the Ning would do . . . I wish it would twitter what sessions people are going to. Maybe not twitter, but I wish I could access your profile page and see what sessions you put in your conference planner.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on -
Good question. I'd also ask: what have you been able to do that you've liked?
I'm particularly struck by the ride-sharing/room-sharing/bulletin-board types of queries. I also see: 1) a fair amount of pre-conference connecting between participants, and 2) some great communication with the conference organizers.
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Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on -
My prior experience with this (a conference Ning) was at CUE (California), which Steve H. also set up. There was not a big enough threshold of participants, so it wasn't a "network". The thing missing there was not so much the pre-conference stuff, but the post (which is what you want, for the relationships to keep going). Few people except the presenters did an entry on the conference sessions, and I was definitely "lonely" blogging the sessions.
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Permalink Reply by Sally Regnier on -
Let's share the AHA moments we discover at NECC.
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Permalink Reply by Susan Brown on -
Oh my goodness. I am reading the replies and pick this one to say "Yeah, I think so too... ANd I look at the author... It is my team leader from the 2001 Maryland Tech Academy. Ok, what did I expect!
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Permalink Reply by Susan Brown on
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That is a tough one. How do we keep it going? I come away overwhelmed with ideas and then I get back to work. Maybe we can work on some concrete project to share after the coference. Don't know what that wold be, but maybe Lucy could lead that discussion. I would support you in that, Lucy.
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Permalink Reply by Ebony Schoon on -
Lucy I think it is possible. We can keep the conversation going by sharing how we have implemented what we have learned at the conference here on this ning.
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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Marks on
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David ... so glad you asked. I'm hopeful that NECC attendees and non-attendees can use the Ning to extend the conference beyond the week in San Antonio. Looks like some interesting opportunities are being created to interact with presenters prior to their sessions ... and hopefully to follow-up with discussions afterwards. There will certainly be a new pool of collective wisdom here ... and I hope it will be more than just an archive.
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Permalink Reply by Selena Ward on -
As far as pre-conference goes, the ning has been amazing! I have never felt so prepared for a conference before.
What I am waiting to see is how the ning will evolve during the conference. Will the posts continue throughout the day or will it be a reflection pool each evening?
I guess the only thing I would wish for is the ning for next year begin as soon as possible. Maybe it could be a place where session ideas could develop before the submission deadline. Also more people would know about it so there could be higher membership.
Plus, ditto on Lucy's comment!
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Permalink Reply by Lucy Gray on -
I'd actually like to see one ning for NECC and the info is built on each year as opposed to building a new ning every year. I'm getting oversaturated by all the nings I've joined!
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Permalink Reply by Tim Chase on
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While I can see advantages to a unified database of NECCers, there's also the delight of seeing something new filling up with our data. New forums established, new tools to use and explore, etc. Maybe I'd like to keep my friends from this year and have them carry-over. The membership list should be purged, though, if someone is a non-participating member--right now we have less than a thousand on this ning, but if it all just rolled from year to year we'd have too many thousands of people. Or is that a good thing?
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