Wednesday, July 15, 2009

State Virtual Conference: The Genius of 'And' versus the Tyranny of 'Or'

Our first ever state virtual leadership conference is almost complete, and I wanted to take time to share some reflections with you this morning in regards to the genius of both/and versus the tyranny of either/or for your students as you evaluate today's first ever virtual leadership conference.

Pre-Conference Planning

Local school districts and schools were provided with technical requirements and testing prior to the event. In additon, support phone numbers and twitter accounts were provided to keep up with just in time support. Did your site technology directors pre-test? Did they prepare for bandwidth constraints? What did they learn from today's event? Will they never do a virtual conference again as an either/or decision and/or will they look at the data from today - uptime, downtime, audio, video issues and plan strategically for how to make such as session better in the future? The issue here is not either/or blame on either the state level or the local level. The issue here is how do we brainstorm both/and options to make things better for future virtual conferences.

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