[Opensource] Re: K12 Open Minds Conference

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Well done Donna, I must compliment you on taking the trouble to share us
these links and congratulate you on being selected as a keynote :-)

Regards Roland

2008/10/2 Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>

> Hi All,
>
> Just got back from the US where I attended the K12 Open Minds Conference
> for FOSS in K-12 schools. http://www.k12openminds.org/
>
> It was an amazing experience. So exciting to share time and ideas with
> like minds. The baseline was Free and Open Source Software so no need to
> argue about its merits or why it matters so much to education.
>
> This conference has to go on the watch list for 2009.
> Call for papers should open in January!
>
> I was one of 5 keynote speakers and am humbled by the calibre of the
> other speakers... Feeling very proud to be outclassed by company such as
> this: http://www.k12openminds.org/keynotes
>
>  Dr David Thornburg - http://www.tcpd.org/
>  & http://www.edtechnot.com/notthornburg.html
>
>  Alex Inman - http://linuxlaptops.blogspot.com/
>  & http://www.educollaborators.com/
>
>  Chris Lehman - http://www.practicaltheory.org/serendipity/
>  & http://www.scienceleadership.org/drupaled/
>
>  Dr Brad Wheeler - http://bwheeler.ovpit.iu.edu/
>  & http://coppola.rsmart.com/node/41
>
> My slides are here: http://www.cc.com.au/K12openminds
> (includes a link to the video stream. The audio is bad, and the camera
> just captured the slides - so not hugely useful - but it might give a
> bit more content than the slides alone.)
>
> Lucie, a fellow attendee, wrote this blog post & gives a great summary
> of the conference:
> http://www.infinitethinking.org/2008/09/open-minds-momentum.html
>
> cheers
> Donna
> --
> Donna Benjamin - Executive Director
> Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au
> ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414
> open source - facilitation - web services
>
>


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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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