Here they are:

http://sgowtham.net/gallery/20081122/

If you need full resolution pictures, shoot me an email.

1:15-2:15:
room 161: Privacy issues: how do we enable privacy without strangling access?
room 162: WP in classrooms: case studies (like Jeff’s presentation, mostly undergrads)
room 163: How do we facilitate discovery of similar interests among many blogs? (Patrick)
4th floor:

2:30-3:30
room 161: Teaching WP to web design students and/or people with no web design experience
room 162: Testing 2.7 w/Jane Wells; and help choose the new comments screen! W00T
room 163: Selling WordPress to your administration
4th floor:

3:45-5:00
room 161:Developing educational WP plugins (Dave)
room 162: Using WP in K-12/K-12 management/assessment
room 163: Student blogging, different types of blogs, roles in education, should we promote, recruit students to blog?
4th floor:

Here are my presentation slides. Thanks for all the great questions and comments. Feel free to find me in person or on the web to talk more.

For anyone interested in following along with my morning presentation on “Teaching Undergraduates with Blogs”, the links, along with a rough outline of the talk, are here.

My colleague, Brad Kozlek, and I will be coming down from Penn State where we have a large scale blog platform in place for all sorts of publishing tasks — support of scholarship, teaching, learning, eportfolio, and more.  We are coming to hang out with other smart people engaged in the use of blogs for teaching and learning and to learn about what others are doing … here is the rub, we don’t use WP as our platform.  At PSU we use MovableType.

Would an open session about our solution be interesting even though we are not on WP?  We’ve designed our service to be an open publishing platform to support over 100,000 users and we are seeing some really interesting things emerging.  We could talk about the Blogs at Penn State from a number of perspectives if it is at all interesting.  If not, we’ll be the guys in the back of the room taking notes.

I thought it might a good idea to link to Jim Groom’s recent post on WordPress and higher education on Bavatuesdays… lots of ideas in there that would be good to bandy about on Saturday.

Hi all– I’m looking forward to Saturday.

I’d be happy to have a discussion in the afternoon about institutional hurdles to implementing WPMU at all levels and scales, aimed at generating some ideas about how best to approach, communicate with, and support the varying constituencies who might make use of the software, but who are resistant to, reticent to try, or just plain unfamiliar with it.  I have particular experience with this re: administrators, faculty, and students at the college level, and it continues as our project expands.

I’d also like to suggest that at the end of the day we have some kind of “report back,” or at least have someone live blogging each breakout session… I don’t want any good ideas– or even bad ones for that matter– to go unabsorbed.

A year ago, Jeremy Boggs and I launched an initiative at the Center for History and New Media called ScholarPress, designed as a hub for educational plugins. It houses two plugins we’ve developed: Courseware, which is meant as a lightweight course management system that runs on your WordPress blog, and WPBook, a plugin for creating a Facebook application out of your blog. Both of these are attempts to bring blogging closer to the classroom experience, and empower teachers and institutions with tools tailored to education. We’re actively working on an overhaul of Courseware that’s easier to use, and has an extensible architecture.

WordCamp Ed attendees bring an array of varying skill and backgrounds, and I’m hoping that as part of the ‘unconference’ afternoon we could organize a techy session that’s based solely on what plugin tweaks we’re making for our WordPress and particularly WordPress MU installations. We could probably come up with a list of plugins that we all use, and identify similar code modifications that perhaps we could collaborate on in the future.

I also think this may be an important session for those who are interested in setting-up their own campus-wide WordPress MU install as well. Who’s in on this idea?

Here’s a mockup of the design for WordCamp Ed DC’s t-shirts. We ordered a limited run, but we’ve got one for Matt if he’s reading this. Who wins the t-shirt contest — us, or WordCamp Philippines?

I am curious to know how and why other students blog. What role does blogging have in your educational experience? Who do you see as your intended audience? Why do you blog? Do you see a strong delineation between ’social’ blogging and ‘topical’ blogging?

I am a part-time graduate student in the Archives, Records and Information Management program at the iSchool of Maryland. I classify my blog (Spellbound Blog) as ‘topical’ and do my best to reach out to the full Archives community. It has given me a method to introduce myself and my ideas to those beyond the academic community.

As a part-time student, I have not had a great deal of opportunity to meet other students in my program outside of class time. I generally only go to campus for my class one night a week. I had thought that my blog might help me connect with other students with similar academic interests – but blogs are still not something most students in my program seem to have on their radar.

How do we encourage more students to read and write blogs? Is this something others think is important?