Comments on: Thoughts from a Media Literacy conference http://wesharestuff.org/blog/2008/11/19/thoughts-from-a-media-literacy-conference/ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stuart Parker http://wesharestuff.org/blog/2008/11/19/thoughts-from-a-media-literacy-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Stuart Parker Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:05:55 +0000 http://wesharestuff.org/?p=164#comment-164 Thanks Mike, agree with you muchly... I hadn't attended an event like this for some time and forgot how frustrating they can be. I might approach the NIACE folk during the digital inclusion conference in Notts on Thursday about this very point. It should be much more interactive, and more so than just discussion about best practise and this project or that project. Introducing hands on sessions, games, workshops etc that really get practioners thinking about stuff. Hey, lets organise one ourselves! Thanks Mike, agree with you muchly… I hadn’t attended an event like this for some time and forgot how frustrating they can be. I might approach the NIACE folk during the digital inclusion conference in Notts on Thursday about this very point. It should be much more interactive, and more so than just discussion about best practise and this project or that project. Introducing hands on sessions, games, workshops etc that really get practioners thinking about stuff. Hey, lets organise one ourselves!

]]> By: Mike Amos-Simpson http://wesharestuff.org/blog/2008/11/19/thoughts-from-a-media-literacy-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Mike Amos-Simpson Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:57:14 +0000 http://wesharestuff.org/?p=164#comment-154 I've stopped going to traditional conferences - not as a participant, a speaker, advertiser, workshop organiser anything! Of the ones I've been to the only ones I've really enjoyed have been the ones where I've been running workshops. The idea that you pay a huge sum of money (either in fees or transport & time), for the pleasure of listening to the 'great & good' tell you what mostly you already know and very often preaching to the converted just seems very very old fashioned. I'm not completely sold that unconferences are the answer but I think they go a long way towards it - events that recognise the really interesting stuff lies with the participants not a few bores standing on a stage makes much more sense. Sounds like that event you attended needs a good hard rethink about its name if it didn't provide access to online media! I’ve stopped going to traditional conferences – not as a participant, a speaker, advertiser, workshop organiser anything! Of the ones I’ve been to the only ones I’ve really enjoyed have been the ones where I’ve been running workshops. The idea that you pay a huge sum of money (either in fees or transport & time), for the pleasure of listening to the ‘great & good’ tell you what mostly you already know and very often preaching to the converted just seems very very old fashioned.

I’m not completely sold that unconferences are the answer but I think they go a long way towards it – events that recognise the really interesting stuff lies with the participants not a few bores standing on a stage makes much more sense.

Sounds like that event you attended needs a good hard rethink about its name if it didn’t provide access to online media!

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