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CDB Entry: Conference Hangover: Low Information Density in Conference Presentations

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:14:57 -0700

Actually, my vacation time in Colorado did wonders to revive my spirits after 4 days at the EDUCAUSE 2004 conference. I've grumbled before about the sour irony that the dominant mode of communication in our field of instructional technology (or...

comment by: Vidya A.

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:11:10 -0700

Your comments on presentation modes at conferences - and I agree that the lecture style does dominate - sparked the thought that when faculty (most at any rate) use PowerPoint they tend to do the same thing. I'm not entirely sure if the conference style has infiltrated the classroom or vice versa. Any thoughts?

comment by: Alan Levine

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 03:22:27 -0700

Ah there is one bright spot- BloggerCOn defines itself as an "un-conference":

http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/04/21

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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:22:41 -0700

Excerpt: Alan Levine met een goed verhaal over [een deel van] zijn ervaringen op de EDUCAUSE conferentie [8000 !! deelnemers]"Have you ever noticed that downloading someone's PowerPoint file from a presentation you missed really does not have much substance wit...
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