Hi Daniel, Nice report, thanks. I enjoyed reading it.
On 7/15/05, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We just got back from the FLOSSIE conference, and it went very well. > Kudos to Ian Lynch for organizing it and making it happen. There were > about 50 attendees or so. > > Simon Phipps kicked off the conf with an interesting presentation about > how open source is the natural result of a highly connected society. > Simon talked the "Participation Age". How we are moving into a world > where the general population are not mere consumers of content, but > active participants in creation of content. Perfect examples of this > being open source, blogs, etc. Sun is really focusing their new marketing blitz on this concept of the Participation Age, and good for them for doing it. I think that it is a bold and meaningful advertising campaign. > > The reason why I detail this is that, without being planned, this theme > set the stage for the rest of the conference. A lot of the subsequent > talks went back to the concept of paricipation. Someone gave a > presentation about Moodle, an open source Course Management System that > lets students be active participants in learning. This man setup a wiki > with a topic for a story and asked the kids to colaboratively develop > the story, wiki-style. Moodle has a chat room, pop quizes and activities > for the kids. > > Ian of course talked about the INGOTs program, which is all about > learning through participation. Instead of reading something on a book > and answering an exam paper, in INGOTs kids have to demonstrate their > skills in practice. Furthermore, kids participate in assessment, and are > encouraged to self-assess as part of the learning process. So again, it > goes with the theme of participation. > > Naturally, I talked about OOoAuthors. My emphasis was on what OOoAuthors > does to make it *easy* for people to participate. I talked about our > review process and how we use it as a way to let anyone, regardless of > level of expertise, to participate in the project. I also briefly showed > how we use technology (Plone) to make this review process easier. > > > The talks were very well received. There were three OOo volunteers > present: Ian Lynch, myself, and Iain Roberts from OOoAuthors. Speaking > of which, it was great meeting you Iain! :-) We also had help from > Mark, who works with Ian Lynch in The Learning Machine. > > The talks were very well received, and we had a lot of positive > comments. We handed out several OOo CDs. We talked to several people > about INGOTs and they were interested. And a lot of people liked what > they saw on the OOoAuthors website. > > All in all, it went very well. So kudos to Ian Lynch and SchoolForge for > making this happen, and thanks to the OOo community members Simon and > Iain for comming over. It would have been good to have a few more people > help out. Perhaps next year? > > Cheers, > Daniel. > -- > /\/`) Leave your mark at OpenOffice.org > /\/_/ > /\/_/ OOoAuthors: http://oooauthors.org > \/_/ Knowledge Base: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ > / > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
