Ideas+to+Digitally+Augment+the+Conference

=Current suggestions/past years=

Slideshare to share slides

 * is there anything required to facilitate this? conference tag?
 * is there a benefit to a partnership with slideshare in which they help market the conference?

Video Capture/Casting (hopefully by wikieducator)

 * Brian to talk to wikieducator about the idea of them contributing in kind volunteer video capture services in exchange for sponsor role as well as hosting all of the video content/slides
 * see also http://connected.wikispaces.com/CanadaMoot09 for scheme of how MoodleMoot was simultaneously broadcast online using Elluminate

Crowdvine / Profiles of attendees

 * a good idea, but in my experience the majority of attendees last year were NOT using it
 * instead, facebook group? twitter "group" (can't recall how to do this) other....
 * would be great if there was some way to link this to paper submissions, sessions, slides, videos etc.

=New ideas=

Open Ed conference poster mashup contest

 * if time allows; not totally right for the demographic in my experience

Conference Wiki

 * this just seems obvious to me; main purpose for self-organization and simple way to post things online, but also...
 * could do some collaborative stuff like
 * ask people to add one sentence of what they hope to get from the conference; produce wordle diagram
 * ask people to add one sentence to what they are going to commit to in the next year to increasing use/spread of OER

Conference 'Screens'

 * I have no idea why there is not a large screen or two in the central gathering area of a conference where you can see a combination of things like practical info (current sessions and locations, lunch location suggestions, wifi passwords, main URLs for conference) as well as creative visualizations and feeds (conference twitter feeds, visualizations, see below, ....)
 * cf. http://www.danieldura.com/code/twittercamp re: twitter, stolen shamelessly from @cogdog
 * http://visibletweets.com/ (also, as usual, stolen shamelessly from @cogdog, the one who never sleeps!)
 * http://beta.twittervision.com/ is a really nice global map - would be cool if it could work on filters of certain terms too
 * cf. also http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/05/twittervision_and_twittearth.html
 * http://wthashtag.com/ (via @injenuity)
 * http://twitology.org/ (via @tomcaswell)

Visualization of OER Usage

 * idea would be a screen in the main conference area with a visualization on it of ....
 * http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/
 * http://cloudworks.open.ac.uk/node/1182
 * http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/stats/index.htm
 * via @opencontent - connect http://www.43things.com/about/view/web_service_api with a Google coop search of OER sites, dynamically pull possible matches to the "I want to learn" queries from 43things and visualize this

Collaborative OER Timeline

 * Scott working on prototype driven out of google docs and simile, but other suggestions/approaches welcomed

Backchannel?
How about a live conference backchannel? I've used a Lingr room in the past, since there's no reg/signin necessary... Twitter kind of serves this purpose, I guess.

Speaker's Corner

 * set up a Mac and have people record short clips using Photobooth responding to a question like "What is Open" or "Why is Openness important to you?" These clips would then be mashed up for display on Friday

Other/Refs
coveritlive cf. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/06/better-conferences-response-needed.html cf. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/05/conference-networking-tools-do-they.html

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