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Workshop Presos for SOSCON09

EdTech

In anticipation of the SOSCON09 in Honey-Grove ISD—where I’ll be presenting two half-day sessions for teachers on Moodle, as well as a “geek” strand the following day—I’ve submitted a few workshop titles. I encourage you to do the same! Note, I don’t want to teach all of them…1-2 would be fun, especially the esoteric ones.

Here they are:

Keynote/Feature Presentations:

  • Moodle Habitudes (45-50 min but can be adjusted down)
  • Embracing Technology for Positive Change
  • Be the Match

Hands On Sessions:

  • Blog Your World!
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Building Your Academic Learning Network
  • Collaborative Storytelling with Digital Tools
  • Grabbing Video off the Web
  • Setting Up UbuntuLinux for Dual Boot on a Mac (bring your Mac)
  • Creating a Bootable UbuntuLinux Flash/Thumb Drive
  • Backup, Restore Your MySQL Databases the Easy and Safe Way
  • Backing Up and Imaging Your Computer with System Rescue CD
  • Creating the Walled Garden - Using Free, Open Source Software to Create Safe, Teaching and Learning Environments

What really gets me excited is that I’ll have a chance to pick up some techie skills. Some of the sessions I’d really like to see include:

  • Optimizing Your PHP/MySQL Server - This session would provide a hands-on overview of how to install popular cache tools (e.g., xcache) to speed up PHP/MySQL servers. I’d also like more information on how to speed up/optimize MySQL databases…stuff you have to pay $2000 for to learn from the MySQL people.
  • FOG - This session would walk me through setup of a server and installation of the software, as well as customization of the client.

My one concern is that these sessions appeal more to technology administrators rather than the rank-in-file folks. That can have an isolating effect…“techies” over here, “regular folks” over there. A good conference bridges the gap, helping each group better understand the other and find value and points of reference they can use to learn.

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