Comments on: Prepping for Minds On Media

By: Penny

Wed, 18 May 2011 14:38:36 +0000

This is where we really need to encourage the FOSIT reps from each school With social networking we are never really alone!

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By: jaccalder

Tue, 17 May 2011 01:35:39 +0000

Thanks Peter!

We’ve got any OSAPAC disks available where appropriate. Will do a double-check and get some keys ready. THANKS 🙂

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By: Peter Skillen

Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:13 +0000

Yes indeedy!

A Twitter visualization is cool – people have loved it!

We have had a power grid laid down in advance to handle the power. In the first year, we didn’t – so that caused some issues — but — they weren’t insurmountable!

Fingers crossed for bandwidth. Try to get people to download any needed software ahead of time but i think all software is already there, right.

Have stuff on keys if you need to get it to someone rather than adding download work.

Yes. Projectors to make it all explicit – like @brendasherry says in her recent post – http://bsherry.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/taking-the-plunge-online-learning-communities/#comment-171

Looking forward!
peter

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By: jaccalder

Sun, 15 May 2011 15:02:38 +0000

Great points Tim! Thanks. As for bandwidth, we have four different networks at our Ed Centre (administrators, elementary schools, secondary schools and guest) and so hope that this will help disperse. The IT dept. has been WONDERFUL helping us prep for this day, so fingers crossed!!! 🙂

The extra projector idea is wonderful. I hadn’t thought of that. We had thought of putting “creation stations” in the middle of the room for teachers who get going on creating something and want to move away from the station and be able to finish something up. This would work wonderfully with having a few projectors to plug into there… Thanks!

You also reminded me – we should set up a twitter fall or something like that to share any tweets about the day on the screen. Thanks again! 🙂

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By: Tim K

Sun, 15 May 2011 14:56:58 +0000

My biggest concern would be bandwidth. Do you normally have network slowdowns on board internet? If there is any way to get them to prioritize the traffic while you’re doing each session, they need to do that before hand.

With good connection, MoM feels like a big digital sandbox that encourages experimentation and reduces anxiety for less technical people.

The only other thing that stands out for me is having a lot of projectors to share information on. People always seem to get keyed up when they see their tweets, or Prezi or whatever appear on the big screen (like they’re on TV).

Good luck! MoM should be standard PLC province wide.

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