Sharing and the OCWC Conference
Mike Caulfield,
OCW Blog,
Aug 29, 2008
So how do you share a conference with a wider audience? The natural response, suggests Phillip Schmidt, is to "place more emphasis on documentation and share audio/video/text online." But he observes, "I know how hard it is to collect all the images and notes from participants, and how much (tedious) editing is required to bring it together into a useful resource." True; and it's not the sort of job that should be done by one person anyways. This is better, but not by a lot: "rather than trying to document everything that is going on during the event, we create a rich list of contact details, URLs, and links to everything that comes up during the discussions." What I wonder is, why do people have the urge to organize this stuff? First of all, provide live access, and allow people to make their own recordings. And encourage participants to put their stuff online. The wider community of pundits and commentators (like me) will pass it on - a more fine-grained 'organization' than any individual could manage.
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