This is perhaps one of what I hope to be many reflections on my experiences at the #dlrn15 conference – actually, this is more of a reflection on Virtually Connecting in general – in part on how it has evolved but also on a few things we have learned over the last seven months. First…
The small project started by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue is growing as more people get involved with bridging educational conferences with people who cannot attend in person.
We have an active Slack (funny words together), and plans in motion for at l…
All it takes is alarm clocks and coffee. No, alarm clocks, coffee, and a relatively small group of interesting, geographically dispersed people. And some google hangouts. And now a Slack with snarky bots.
Last week the geometrically growing Virtually C…
Over the last couple of days I’ve been onsite at the ALT-C conference in Manchester UK. This is a rather large conference (over 500 participants), mostly educational technologists in the UK. As with any large conference, there are cliques, which are great if you are in them, and not so great if you are not.…
By Autumm Caines (@autumm) Cross-posted on http://autumm.edtech.fm Photo Credit Bowin Chin: People Connecting Shared with Creative Commons Licensing Attribution, Share-Alike, No Derivatives Before we get […]
On Thursday I had my first seat in the control room as a Virtual Buddy for a now expanding project (http://virtuallyconnecting.org/) started by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue. I had been a participant in the session on Tuesday; this week there were severa…
Back in April, my friend Maha and I decided to try out a new way of connecting. The idea came to us out of a desire to share the physical experiences of being onsite at a conference with each other. For a variety of reasons, Maha was unable to travel to the conference. She is…
At the 2015 DML Conference I got, for the second time (first was in April at et4online), to join in a Conference Buddy Google Hangout session with Maha Bali.
I almost hesitate to have to say who Maha is, for while being on the opposite side of the glob…
