MAC Week 3 Comment-Hardy Reeves's Blog

Hardy wrote:

Looking through the presentation choices that we were able to look at, I found Podcamp (http://podcamp.pbworks.com/) and was really intrigued with what they are doing. Instead of a regular conference, they call Podcamp an UnConference. What got my attention is that it’s usually free, and covers everything that has to do with social media, blogging, podcasting, video on the net items that teachers might not get a chance to do in the classroom without training. This type of even would allow me to present to like-minded educators and possibly parents and put the idea that these types of skills would be possible in the classroom if we trained teachers on how to do it. Can you imagine parents advocating for teacher training in technology or even offering to train teachers on campus how to use these skills in the classroom?

While my presentation might not fit their usual requirements social media, podcasting, etc it might fit in the way that we look at how it might be used by specific groups with a few rearrangements, arguing that by training teachers to use these tools students and parents would have access to more material, but we need to look at training teachers to do it? From what I can find, the only requirement to add your name and they will make sure that what you are presenting is informational (no commercial presentations) and fitting their needs. It also sounds like they will work with you to fit your informational presentation with their UnConference.



<--Picture of psychedelic coat from Hardy's blog at http://web.me.com/hardy399/MediaAssetCreationReeves/Week_3/Entries/2010/4/6_Wk_3__Publishing_Leadership_project_part_2_of_3__Presenting.html

I replied:

Hardy,

This is SO cool! I had never before heard of Podcamps, but am excited by the fact that they are holding them all over the place. It's so intriguing to me to see that they are combining social media, new media, and traditional conferencing to create an "unconference" that's really relevant to today's culture. I think this could be a great way for people to share their AR projects with like-minded people, and have the ideas spread. Great find!

P.S. Love the psychedelic coat in the picture :)