Plans for my Mini Conference

My mini conference is scheduled for Monday the 23rd of November, at 8PM (NZ Time) if you are in a different time zone you can check out what day and time that will be where you are here. So … only 5 more days to go, and the closer it gets, the more nervous I become!

I will be facilitating an hour long session in WiZiQ with experienced online presenters Nellie Deutsch and Gladys Gahona, both of whom regularly conduct public workshops using WiZiQ as their online conferencing platform of choice.

During the presentation, Nellie and Gladys will discuss how the open source learning management system (LMS) (CMS) Moodle, Wikieducator, and social networking tools, Facebook, Twitter and Ning, and online conferencing tool WiZiQ, can be combined to create, share, promote and enhance the facilitation of online instruction and learning via Blended Learning (BL) and Blended Online Learning (BOL) Modalities. If you have time before the mini conference also check out BOL workshops on WikiEducator and IT4ALL.

To prepare for the conference...

• I sent an invitation to my mini conference to facilitating-online-communities@googlegroups however no invitation was received. I hope those of you who are planning to attend will not mind sending me an email at catherinetaylor@inspire.net.nz with your personal email address, so that I can send you an invitation via WiZiQ.
  
• Please register with WiZiQ, this will only take a minute, and they do not ask for too much personal information.
• I am almost 100% certain that people who have been invited/registered will be sent a reminder to their inbox from WiZiQ about one hour prior to the start of the online conference, which provides a link to the class. Alternatively the conference room can be accessed via the link on the course wiki mini conference page or my blog.
• Check out the information I have added about my online event on the Discussion page on the FOC09 course wiki, and add your comment to the discussion I have started there or leave a comment on my Blog regarding the following questions in preparation for online event......
  
• How do you organise and facilitate online learning?/ Which tools do you use to organise and facilitate online learning?
  
• Which tools do you/ would you use to share/promote/advertise online learning/workshops e.t.c?
  

NB: Elluminate will be the back up venue should WiZiQ misbehave on Monday Night!!