Speakers: Steve Lawson, Kathryn Greenhill, John Blyberg, Stephen Francoeur
This session was a little "different". Most people already knew about this subject. I was totally lost.
But I did take notes:
Planning an Unconference
What is an Unconference?
These are very informal conferences that are often called "Library Camp" or Podcamps, Barcamps, XCamps, depends on the field of interest.
Difference between traditional conference and unconference
- Planned and facilitated by participants
- Sometimes completely virtual
- Less costly
- Sometimes does not require travel
- Open Source Sharing
Library Unconferences- How to create an Unconference (taken directly from CNN… they told us :))
1) Create a wiki – for sign up and topic choosing
See BarCamp.org and BrainJams.org for help with wiki setup.
2) Find sponsors that won’t interfere
3) Post author Harrison Owen's Law of Two Feet: Any person neither learning from nor contributing to a group discussion must walk to another one. (This is the motto of Unconferences.)
What goes on at an Unconference?
Participants post topics on boards, consolidate and do discussion groups.
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| From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference |
Participants are the facilitators, this makes for more information exchange and diversity of topics.
Okay, gotta go, next session starting now.
2 comments:
I think this makes sense... The name throws you off a bit....
I couldn't get either of the example sites to load????
I think there's something here. I don't know what, but it seems like this is a good way to network and gain information especially with tight budgets.
I asked the speaker about some, he gave me a name of one coming up. I think it's called Next.
Here's a link for it:
http://nextlibrary.net/
This may help. I'm still lost.
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