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 pretty much all other conference gatherings) is the very unwired, tired…. 50 minute lecture to a passive audience. I have reached my saturation point with the format. <disclaimer>This is not to say I have any brilliant alternative ideas hanging around nor that I could better plan a professional gathering for 8000 people </disclaimer>, But to watch during the breaks about 7000 of them huddled around their laptops, cell phones, PDAs (that includes me) sure says something is not so exciting if we cannot tear ourselves away from email. And do not even get me started with the silly circus of the vendor hall. Yikes. Also, wouldn’t you think at a [...]
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