According to AIR Senior Researcher Darren Cambridge, his organization also expects to produce a publication "to identify some of the key themes, to get a sense of the scope of what happened, and if there are implications for policy and for the fields going forward, to try to articulate those too."The event consisted on multitudes of online organizations holding webinars, virtual panels,chats, discussion forums, book clubs, galleries, exhibits, and broadcasts. One can find recordings made of the activities at connectededucators.org. The organizer, lead researcher, Darren Cambridge would like to run the event again next year. Archives for the keynote videos are available at: http://connectededucators.org/cem/cem-kickoff/http://connectededucators.org/cem/cem-kickoff/.
It sounds like a great event but the problem is that the organizers don't know how many people participated and there is no way for these people to get back in touch with each other unless they all go to each individual site again. Wouldn't it be better if they had joined all of this activity into the OU's Educational Futures community and people could maintain contacts and connections?
CEM Update @ PLP Live
Project director Darren Cambridge joins thought leaders John Seely Brown, Will Richardson, and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach in sharing learnings from CEM at PLP Live, Sept. 28!Reference
Schaffhauser, Dian, Connected Educator Month Brings Teachers, Others Together Online, THE Journal, 9/26/12. Accessed September 26, 2012 at: http://thejournal.com/Articles/2012/09/26/Connected-Educator-Month-Brings-Teachers-Others-Together-Online.aspx?=THE21&p=1
Actually, folks are connected through Twitter using #ce12 and through the connectededucators.org site. Also, through the book club community http://theconnectededucator.ning.com/ and the various communities featured in the Community directory http://connectededucators.org/communities/?sort=likes
ReplyDeleteI do not think it was meant to be a one size fits all event. Is your community featured in the directory? Maybe it should be?