Conferences on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

2024 Week 29

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:48:50 -0600

I posted this thing earlier than usual since I was traveling. Info about a Course Outline Landing Page, upcoming AI-related sessions, and the SCUP conference; I also reflected on the implications of a global IT outage, explored new AI tools, and finally fixed my Archives page with some help from ChatGPT.

TEDxUofC

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:22:25 +0000

It looks like the University of Calgary is planning a series of TEDx events: TEDxUofC - the first one being next week, just days after the TEDxYYC event.

After previously saying I wouldn’t go to a TEDx event because of the way they’re set up, I’m happy to post that they don’t have to be that way.

Registration for TEDxUofC is open, and cheap. Students get in for $5. Everyone else gets in for $10. It doesn’t get cheaper than that. And there’s no “how awesome are you?” filter on the registration. You prove your awesomeness by showing up.

on the open education experience

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:37:58 +0000

The Open Education conference last week was easily one of the best conferences I’ve ever participated in. It was intense, incredibly run, thoughtfully planned, and brought together an extremely diverse and intelligent group of people. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so intimidated by the sheer number of scary-smart people in the same room.

The conference was awesome. Lots of people have already recapped the conference itself - I’m not going to even try to add to that. I’m also not going to write a post about how fracking awesome everyone is, listing them all by name. I had a blast talking to everyone. They all rock. I am honoured to have had the chance to meet so many great new people, and to hang out with so many old friends. Blah blah blah…

I'm going to Utah!

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:13:12 +0000

My travel for the 2007 Open Education conference in Logan, Utah was approved. I’ve never been to Open Education, but it sounds like an amazing event. And, to top it off, I get to present with Jim, hang out with Brian and Scott, and meet David in person.

I still need to figure out the logistics - there aren’t any direct flights from Calgary to Logan, so I guess I’ll fly to Salt Lake City and hitchhike the rest of the way.

Moose Season is coming!

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:28:48 +0000

Brian just posted about Northern Voice 2007, which will be hosted in Cyprien Lomas’ palacial treehouse on the UBC main campus. I’m going. The first two NV events were awesome (the first was the best conference I’ve been a part of).

With more room to spread the sessions out, and in a more flexible, amazing new learning space, this is going to be one helluvan unconference. Here’s hoping they dial back the femmie quotient on the conference T-shirt this year, though…

Lexi.net - Calgary conference on blogging and online identity

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:55:03 +0000

I was contacted this morning by someone from Lexi.net to let me know about the upcoming “Your Online Identity” conference in Calgary on November 17, 2006. I hadn’t heard of the event before, so had to check out the conference website for info. It sounds like a really cool event. Not as by-the-people-for-the-people as Northern Voice, but still sounds interesting. They’ve lined up an impressive list of speakers, including The Dooce herself.

I think it’s pretty cool to have an event like this in Calgary. I’ve been toying around with the idea of a Northern Voice YYC since I went to the first Northern Voice YVR. I’m not sure Calgary’s ready - Vancouver’s much more plugged-in and seems more aligned with the whole “web 2.0” / blogging / yaddayadda stuff. But, maybe this is a sign…

BCEdOnline 2006 Thursday Keynote Topics

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:48:02 +0000

Stephen Downes is hosting a keynote at BCEdOnline 2006 (Thursday April 20, 2:45-3:45pm) and was gracious enough to invite Brian and myself to take a ride on his coattails to join him on stage for the keynote. I’m going to fly into Vancouver just for the day (and will try to be as awake as possible during the keynote).

We’re planning to do something rather less conventional. Not quite an “un-keynote” - but more of a discussion or fireside chat, directed by the audience. It’d be pretty presumptuous not to tap into the audience for an event like this, so an open discussion-slash-Q&A session seemed more fitting. Likely not quite to the level of managed chaos that we were able to achieve for the Social Software Salon, perhaps more akin to the Edublogger Hootenanny.

Penn State's Teaching & Learning with Technology Symposium

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:08:08 +0000

It’s a busy time for edtech conferences online. First, HigherEdBlogCon is running, now Cole Camplese and friends are putting on a shindig at Penn State, and sharing it with all of us!

Cole sent me a link to their Teaching & Learning with Technology Symposium website - a Wordpress site running a nice K2 theme. How cool is that, for a campus-wide symposium at a huge university to be driving the online resource for the event in an open source blogging app?
The agenda for the event looks pretty interesting. Everything from the usual suspects to “The Strategies of a Dog Who Finally Caught the Car” - sounds like Alan might have had an influence :-)

Higher Ed Blog Conference

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:44:32 +0000

I just about spaced and missed this online conference on “blogging” in higher education: HigherEdBlogCon 2006 (thanks for the reminder, Brian!)

The first round of online events (April 3-7 - right now!) is on the teaching implications of blogging. Topics like case studies, integration with LMS, blogs as personal learning environments, information literacy, etc…

The next round of events (April 10-14) is on library & info resources, followed by admissions/alumni/marketing (April 17-21) and websites & web development (April 24-28).

Interface 2006

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:49:55 +0000

Interface 2006

Theme: Alberta’s Renaissance: Imagine the Possibilities

Begins: Wed, 10 May 2006 at 9:00 AM

Ends: Fri, 12 May 2006 at 6:00 PM

Location:

University of Lethbridge Campus

Lethbridge, Alberta

Canada

Registration fee: $225

Last date for registration: Wed, 10 May 2006

Last date for paper submission: Wed, 15 Mar 2006

Organizer: Jonathan Lane

Link: Conference Website

I’ll be attending Interface 2006, the Alberta provincial distance education conference. It’s in Lethbridge this year, so a few of us will be making the trip south. This will be my first Interface conference, so I’m not really sure what to expect, but it sounds like it’s a pretty good event. I’ve got a proposal in to present on the ePortfolio project we’re working on, so if that’s accepted I’ll be sharing the stage with Patti while we show what we’ve come up with so far.

Northern Voice 2006

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:22:46 +0000

I just cashed in all of my Aeroplan miles for a return flight to Northern Voice 2006. I’m SOOOOO looking forward to those couple of days in Vancouver. I’m skipping the DrupalCon that’s in town the week prior to NV so I’m not away from the family toooo much… I was originally planning on hitting both events to gather ideas for the seemingly endless lineup of Drupal-related projects we’re working on at the Learning Commons, but will settle for lurking on whatever online component they have, and catching the Coles Notes version during Moose Camp…

NMC 2005 Conference Overview Video

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:35:45 +0000

This summer, at the NMC 2005 Summer Conference, they shot a bunch of video with interviews of some of the attendees, and some highlights of the conference. The video was distributed via DVD to the campus NMC rep - which is/was me. Instead of duplicating the DVD, or managing some form of sign in/out process, here’s the video. It was a quick-and-dirty rip of the DVD using Handbrake, so no bonus points for the art of video compression… The video is only 9 minutes long, so it’s not a big time investment.

Blogs n Dogs - 4 day blogging workshop in Banff

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:22:36 +0000

I just found a link to Blogs n Dogs via Common Craft.com. Looks like a 4 day workshop on blogging and social software, held in Banff at the Banff Centre. Sounds very intersting. I’ll have to check it out, but not sure I can justify a 4-day conference/workshop in December. Or, maybe that’s perfect timing, since December is usually a write-off anyway…

Sounds like an event tailor made for the illustrious CogDogBlog himself…

Heading to Northern Voice 2006

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:35:16 +0000

I just bought my registration to Northern Voice 2006 - for the full 2-day extravaganza including Moose Camp. I’m SOOOO looking forward to this. I’ll be taking time off to do it, and traveling on my own dime, but it’s going to be awesome. This year’s conference was one of the high points of a decidedly hectic and memorable year.

And, to make it even better, Alan and Brian will be there too, marking the first Three Amigos reunion since NMC 2004! The Three Amigos ride again, but this time on a big ol’ Canadian moose!

A great presentation on Identity 2.0

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:42:56 +0000

While Evan was “napping”, I took a few minutes to check in on my blog. Took a look at recent referrers and Technorati links, and found a reference to Tarina - a Finnish blog. Cool. So, I checked out the blog, and found a link to a very compelling presentation on “Identity 2.0”

Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Identity, gave a keynote at OSCON 2005. Initially I was more interested in the description of his presentation style - described as “Lessigian”. I’d never heard this term before, so was curious. Turns out Lawrence Lessig uses a pretty kick-ass presentation style, with very simple slides in sync with his talk. No bullet points, just words (and occasional images) reinforcing what he’s saying.