WK 2 Publish Project Part 1 of 3- The search is on

Is this the one? That's what I keep asking myself. I was pretty sure that this conference would be the perfect one to submit my proposal to, but somehow I got cold feet when Joe mentioned, ever so casually, that whatever conference we submitted to, we should be ready to do it, because they would probably accept the proposal. Hmm...I guess this means the conference is definitely outside of my comfort zone! So, as usual when I have to make a decision like this, I am thinking in terms of up-side and down-side to making the presentation at this conference. On the + side ( and this is huge) my partner in crime, Coleen Elmers, said she is willing to co-present with me at this conference. + The date is far enough off that I would have the luxury of time to prepare. + The location is great; I love seeing new places, and I hear SF is a very interesting town. + My presentation would meet the "e-Learning case study" criteria. On the minus side, I would feel more at home among nurses. - Even though I think what we did was really cool, people attending a tech conference are probably way ahead of me on this.

Has anyone been to this conference? I'd love to know what it is like, how the people are, etc.

bp10_2009112_Web 2.0 Reflection

BP9_2009112_Web 2.0 Slideshare

The tool I explored today is called Slideshare. It is free, one of my favorite words in the English language. This is a social networking site for sharing and hosting slide presentations. Audio can be synchronized with the slideshow, and you can embed video as well, so this is a way of hosting a multimedia presentation asynchronously. So far, this is the easiest to use tool I have found. You can choose whether to house your presentation publicly, only make it visible to your friends, or make it completely private as an ultra-secret URL invitation-only presentation. For my purposes, having the network or invitation-only settings is perfect. This would allow me to produce a course, and either invite my class members to be part of my network so that they could view my presentation, or I could send them the URL directly. Tying this in with an earlier tool that I blogged about, Nicenet, I could make the URL part of an assignment with a due date. I can almost feel things starting to click into place to allow me to put some of my content into an online format that is accessible to my learners anywhere they have Internet access, and it won’t cost any more money for my company than they are already spending on our LMS that is a bit too confining for my purposes.

I hope you will find my explorations useful. It has been a long, hard trail, but I think I’m finally getting somewhere. I hope I left myself some breadcrumbs to find my way back.