Tech-enabled conferences for web 2.0 savvy participants
Steve Hargadon talks about using web 2.0 apps to enhance interactions at conferences. I particularly like that he encouraged pulling in participants via videoconference, streaming and archival of events, and "back-channel chatting"--or encouraging participants to chat with each other during the other discussions. This last is interesting since I know I've seen looks from professors at students tapping on keyboards during lectures, yet they may be wiki-ing some item of interest sparked by the lecture.
Unplugging Conferences (Techlearning blog)we actually create tools that have the power to re-create us, and I believe that is the case with the read/write Web.