K12 Online Conference
This October will see the second K12 Online Conference, a free conference on educational technology that takes place entirely online. It is made up of several dozen podcast presentations that are released four or five a day over two weeks, with several live “Fireside Chats” to interact in real time with featured presenters. The peripatetic David Warlick is the keynote speaker again this year, and I assume it will be just as good or better than his presentation last year. I think this is a very intriguing model and I’m trying to figure out how to try something like it here.
I do have one concern, however. If I go to a regular conference, no matter how many presentations there are I can only attend one per time slot, so there is a maximum amount of information I can attempt to absorb. I simply can’t go to every session, which is probably better for my brain. However, in this model, every darn session is available to me! I haven’t got the time to view them all, so I still have to prioritize. It’s just harder!
