Title is a nod to colleagues in the audience who are film buffs. Is anyone a fan of Chance the Gardner?
My metaphor may land askew (not the first time), but as a simple person thrust into a strange new world by sheer circumstance, maybe he was foreshadowing web 2.0– and his child like basic perspectives is what so engaged people around him.
In thinking about this session, I kept returning to the value and power of “being there” with all of this exploding technology.
Today was my main presentation for Faculty Academy titled Being There: nets, tweets, avatars… in which I blitzed the audience with 71 slides, mostly flickr’s creative commons licensed images matching my warped metaphors, where I aimed to paint a picture of the distributed and perhaps unfamiliar online social or community space such as twitter, flickr groups for interests you would have never heard of, comment blogging, and a whiff at Second Life.
My suggestion is that ‘expertise’ embodied in a single person is a quasi myth, and the suggested route is to “be” in your own constructed network that provides distributed expertise.
On a larger plane (plain?) I tried to use twitter as an phenomena where people misjudge a technologies attributes and potential based on the seemingly inane content found there. I also tossed in a wild leap at relating teaching to cover bands (What I learned from Johnny Cash), the daring statement that “the internet is really big”, some pointers to resources of online facilitation (that would be you, Choco Nancy!), and a photo of my dog using Second Life. And in the eternal optimism department, I re-used some images to suggest the way through all the craziness is keeping a child like sense of wonder
Anyhow I had fun. People laughed. 75 minutes flew by.
You can find the presentation graphics and links, notes as a flickr set and as a slideshare show (yes I used PowerPoint, mainly for this purpose- not too happy with slideshare- it does not preserve hyperlinks or keep the info in the notes field).
Be there.
Featured Image: Title slide of presentation.
Whoa.
Can’t wait for the audio.
“the internet is really big†— really? 🙂
If only I could have been on I-95 and in University Hall at the same time. Grrr. But I’ve got a custom bootleg, heh heh. Looking forward to spending some quality time with this. You’ve captured something very profound here, Alan. In fact, I think you’ve nailed it.
Wow!! Still absorbing, reflecting…but wow!!!!
Wow… pretty impressive. I would like to hear more about how you managed the workflow in Flickr…
It was nothing fancy, Tim. The presentation was done in PowerPoint, the first thought being I could then post it to slideshare– but it seemed flickr offered more to add content in the captions.
So I saved the 70 some slides as JPEGs, uploaded to flickr using the Flickr Uploadr tool, adding just simple titles I then used the organizer to reverse the order (since they came in reverse order).
Then it was a matter of cutting/pasting some of the notes I had from PPT, and adding more, hyperlinks, etc.
Super job, Alan! Is there an .mp3 of the keynote? I’d love to hear what you had to say.
All presentations from Faculty academy were recorded, in all of their “um” filled glory. Last I heard, they were being fine tuned in post production- keep checking at http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/