Logistics

Here we will keep a current schedule/plan for the workshop. We can show the schedule breakdown and basic information about the sessions. This will help us organize concurrent sessions and basic scheduling information for the afternoon.

We have talked about doing the workshop in several different ways. I will list some here and ask for your feedback. (Keeka)

They could each present about different technologies. Attendees would stay in the one lab because they would get the variety of topics with both presenters
 * Have 2 presenters share a lab.

Attendees would start with one presenter and then rotate to a second, perhaps third, perhaps fourth.
 * Have each presenter in a separate lab.

Other options?

All should include a variety of technologies, but also enough time to really try them out. There should also be at least one brief break.

Opinions? The first step would probably be to divide the "technology ideas" page into categories. (SrNoble)
 * Maybe we could have tracks. We could put related technologies into various "tracks." For example if you sign up for a "webtools" track you would primarily learn about the webtools listed on the "technology ideas" page. We could have a "get your class online" track where you could learn about wikis, blogs and google tools. We could have an AV (audio/visual) track where you learn about Youtube, podcasting, and audio dropboxes. etc...

Thanks for the comment, Jason. I'll go back to the technology ideas page and try to organize it a bit around these tracks. (cjmulvihill)

How long are you envisioning these sessions being? If I knew that, I could get a better idea of the format. For example, are some people doing more than one session? (Marc) **

I'm thinking about 90 minute sessions INCLUDING hands on time for participants. We can run at lesat 2 different sessions at one time, and if we get a lot of interest, 3. I envision a 90 minute block for the first and a 90 minute block for the second. Perhaps just a shade shorter to include a brief break between sessions.

As of today (8/11/09) we're planning for the tech conference from 1:30 to 4:30. There will also be an option to purchase a $10 box lunch for after the conference before the tech workshop. I'm tweaking our simple registration form as we speak. Stacy will be looking into Heartland AEA credit.

For example: Room A - 2-3:30 - Web tools session (90 minutes), 3:30-5:00 - Getting your class online (90 minutes) Room B - 2-3:30 - Audio/visual (90 minutes), 3:30-5:00 - Electronic portfolios (90 minutes)

If there is a lot of interest, we may need to expand to another room that we have available Room C - 2-3:30 - Getting your class online (90 minutes), Web tools (90 minutes)

On our registration, we'll ask people to rank the sessions that they would be most interested in and then set the final plan having that information.