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 * Update (23/6)**

The plan thus far for the 75 minute presentation on Monday is:
 * Intro stuff
 * Notions of presence
 * Cut to Terry re use of video to create presence in Indian villages
 * Quick intro to community (Webheads, LearningTimes)
 * To Jonathan for value of online presence v physical presence (or something like that)
 * Bee On Blogging!
 * Social Software
 * Flickr – quick look at shared pix with input from one or two of you!
 * Wikispaces
 * Use in teaching – Daf, then Marg
 * Connectivism and Paradigm Shifts
 * Discussion

At this stage I don’t know how long this will take and what might be left for discussion. I’ll give it a run through tomorrow and update you when I know more.

//(New ppt loaded in file area. Ignore slides 37 and beyond//)

Bee, Dafne, Aiden, Terry, Marg and Jonathan -

I have been thinking a lot about this presentation //(on June 26th at 1.00 am GMT)//, and trying to imagine how it might go. I think I have a basic outline clear in my head. The uncertainty revolves around the fact that I want at least some parts of this presentation to be done as a conversation, and trying to balance that with what I want to say, and the fact that I am being paid to turn up and do a keynote presentation! So a good portion of the time I guess should be me talking and demonstrating things! There are 2 other factors that I can’t predict ahead of time:

1) how well will I be able to hear each of you when you are talking through Elluminate. It can be in presentations like this that the audio speakers into the room are placed in front of me, and the net result of that is that the audience may hear you better than I will.

2) the f2f audience may find it difficult to engage if there are prolonged bits of dialogue from you, the remote guests. If this is the case I will make an arbitrary decision to curb that dialogue and revert to more normal presentation mode.

Still it makes sense to me that if this presentation is to address social software and networked learning then it should be done as a dialogue, as a live example of how this kind of learning happens – that it is not the knowledge of one individual that is paramount, but the collective thoughts of each participant in the network. And for the purposes of this presentation I’d like to represent us as a network, and use social software tools to connect and learn from each other. To that end I want to ask each of you a favour. Please don’t feel compelled to do this but I would like to demonstrate how tools like Wikispaces, Flickr, ELGG, and del.icio.us can be used to collaborate in this kind of presentation.


 * WIKISPACES**

I have invited you all to a space in Wikispaces called TELLS. (TELLS = TAFE English Language and Literacy Services, the conference hosts). I will put this document in there, and an outline of the presentation as it stands at the moment, and the jumble of current possible slides in the file area //(found via Manage Space link)//. Feel free to make any comments on these docs – it is a wiki environment after all - and it might be a nice thing to show conference delegates (good idea, Michael ;-).

[|Flickr]

If you don’t have the time to do the other things can I ask that you at least do this – upload an image or two to Flickr that illustrates your idea of social software and tag them with TELLS_ss (ss= social software). I will call them up during the presentation as a demo of how tagging can aggregate content, and ask one or two of you why you chose that image.

[|del.icio.us] [|ELGG]

I probably won’t have time to do much with these but if you happen to have an ELGG or del.icio.us account can you tell me what name you are registered with. (Bee and Daf – I already found you both at ELGG, and I found Aiden and Bee at del.icio.us)

Marg's note: --> I did a search on del.icio.us for social software and found over 77,000 hits! [|Check this out]...


 * Approximate Structure (in progress)**

Introduction/Background (10 min) Discussion of presence (5 - 10 min) Examples of presence (15 min) Blogging demos (15 min) Connectivism/elearning 2.0 ( 5 -10 min)
 * wikispaces
 * Flickr
 * Elgg/Del.icio.us
 * Student presence
 * Word to Blogger
 * Email to Blogger
 * Phone/photo blogging

So that’s the state of play at the moment. I’m a bit nervous about it because it’s a new approach for me, and it’s hard to script it in advance, but it’s also exciting for that reason. And I will certainly let our audience know that we are trying something different to illustrate a point.