Flaxmere ICTPD Conference 08
I would love to share with you some of the learning going on in Flaxmere this year but unfortunately I have made very few notes.
I recorded the session with Jamieson MacKenzie but am unable to share the contents with you in the audio format. As I listen to it again, perhaps I’ll be able to share some notes and thoughts… He is down in Dunedin tomorrow so if you’re down there catch up with him. His message is spot on and I wish I was as animated and engaging as he was.
What I have learnt today is to ask AHEAD of time if I can record peoples sessions. But the few times I have asked speakers if I could share them as a podcast the reasons given for a ‘NO’ answer have never been: “Well, if you’d asked me before…”.
I wonder, perhaps if the bottom line is the real reason. Perhaps these same sessions are repeated over and over and if they are made available publicly the audience number goes down.There is als othe thought then that the message is being diluted, changed and, through blog notes et al., subtly altered from the original.
A distinction, therefore, needs to be made from what is the presentors material to what are mine, and your additional thoughts/concerns/ questions and general wittering.
Wittering, though, has some value. The value in this day and age is the global voice conponent of the message of educational reform. The “witterings” ca not nor should not be ignored.
Maybe it’s a sign that a lot of recent web innovations and practices have passed some of our former gurus by and they are feeling the pinch. The economics of information scarcity aren’t what they were pre-Web 2.0. MacKenzie’s methods and ideas around information literacy are worthwhile but I’m concerned that they are not evolving fast enough to keep pace.