e-Show n Tell 2007

Well.. it’s 5pm on Day 3 of the e-Show n Tell 2007 Conference and I’m all blogged out! We’ve had some fabulous presentations and I’ve had lots of fun documenting the conference events here.

Live blogging is fun - but also challenging. I hope I’ve managed to maintain the pace and keep people who couldn’t make it to the synchronous events informed about what’s going on… and maybe demonstrated a little bit of blogging technique along the way!

One of the key skills for blogging is ‘the mashup’ - being able to use a collection of Web 2.0 tools to put together a complete web prescence. In the conference context this is about creating ongoing coverage of the event… but in the classroom it’s about creating a personalised learning environment.

Anyway, for those who are interested, I’ve used the following tools throughout the three days to ‘mashup eshowntell2007′:

• Edublogs to host the blog - free and easy to use
• Flickr to host and tag the artwork for the blog
• Slideshare.net to host and tag the powerpoint slides from the sessions
• Twitter to make announcements and get feedback from the network
• Del.icio.us to share some links in the sidebar of the blog
• Podomatic to host Michael’s podcast (Michael’s work not mine - but important to note)
• DivShare to host the Digital stories from Alicia and Carol
• Email to receive files and communicate with the conference management team.
• Photoshop to edit artwork. (But you can use any image editing tool you prefer).
• BigHugeLabs to make the mosaics.

Anyway, I hope at least a small group of readers have found some fun and information in this space. We will post any remaining presentation resources or photocomp entries that are received before 5pm on Sunday 12 November 2007. We’d also love to see your comments and feedback here - so share some of your thoughts!!

Please also visit the Conference website where you can login to access the collection of session recordings and join in the discussions there. You should also visit the Conference Wiki to share your ideas! Oh and don’t forget to share your feedback using the conference survey tool.

Othewise it’s over and out! Back to my usual blogging channel!

Regards,

J0 Kay