ACM Hypertext 2008 will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 19th-21st 2008 and is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences. The conference is co-located and scheduled directly after ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (http://www.jcdl2008.org/).

Details may be found at http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/home/soclinking.html

Image from Howard Rheingold, Friendster (Beta): Social Network Web of Trust. The Evolution of Reputation, December 26th, 2002. http://www.smartmobs.com/2002/12/26/friendster-beta-social-network-web-of-trust/

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Why don’t we see more crossover between higher education and K-12 professional and academic conferences? My feed reader brought me news last week of the upcoming Open Minds Conference: Open Source in K-12 Education:

The Open Minds Conference is the first national K-12 gathering for teachers, technicians and educational leaders to share and explore the benefits of open source in education. Virtual Learning Environments that provide 24X7 access to teaching and learning resources, cutting-edge and easy-to-use desktop applications, coupled with powerful management tools and low-cost computer strategies make the classroom of tomorrow available today!

This would be an interesting conference to attend from a higher education perspective. It’s not just that many of the tools to be discussed there are those that work just as well in a collegiate environment - in fact, most probably got their start in higher education. The real benefit for those in academia will be the insight into how our future clients (students) are using these tools, and how that shapes incoming student expectations, learning styles, and attitudes. I wonder what other K-12 conferences are out there that might provide more of this type of insight.

The presentation list for the K12 Online Conference doesn’t look all that different from the 2007 EDUCAUSE program. I do recall the annual Blackboard conference having k-12 tracks - however what few sessions there were seemed more product specific. Are there K-12 conferences out there with higher education tracks? What about other events that serve both groups?

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A few of our colleagues are in Vancouver this week for ED-MEDIA, the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Holly Parker and Paul Martin are presenting today.

You can follow Holly, Paul, and Steve Cavrak on Twitter.

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Connectivism Online Conference is an open online forum exploring how learning has been impacted by ongoing changes. The conference, hosted online by the University of Manitoba, runs from February 2 – 9, 2006. The daily conference schedule is.

Friday, Feb 2: George Siemens, Connectivism: Learning Conceptualized Through the Lens of Today's World

Monday, Feb 5: Will Richardson, Connective Teaching: How the Read/Write Web Challenges Traditional Practice

Tuesday, Feb 6: Diana Oblinger, Balancing Agility and Stability in Higher Education

Wednesday, Feb 7: Bill Kerr, A Challenge To Connectivism

Thursday, Feb 8: Stephen Downes,The Recognition Factor

Friday, Feb 9: Terry Anderson, Research and Net Pedagogies

All sessions begin at Noon, EST or 11 AM CST.

If you blog or use social bookmarking sites, please use the conference tag: OCC2007.

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The evolution of teaching and learning is accelerated with technology. After several decades of duplicating classroom functionality with technology, new opportunities now exist to alter the spaces and structures of knowledge to align with both needs of learners today, and affordances of new tools and processes.

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Connectivism Online Conference is an open online forum exploring how learning has been impacted by ongoing changes. The conference will run from February 2 – 9, 2007.

Key themes: trends in K-12 sector, trends in higher education, research and net pedagogy, technological and societal trends, and connective knowledge and connectivism.

Format: Presenters will deliver a 50 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions. After each presenter, conversation will occur online in Moodle, allowing participants to challenge, critique, explore, and extend ideas presented.

More information and (free) registration: http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/connectivisim/

Spotted by: Charles Rathbone

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How will higher education evolve to accommodate digital technologies in the classroom, changing sensibilities among students and new forms of knowledge, learning and expression?

This panel discussion will address some emerging challenges posed by the use of digital media, social networks and games within educational contexts. Panelists will speak from a wide range of recent experiences with teaching in virtual or hybrid learning environments and suggest strategies for the future.

Panelists include Rebecca Nesson of Harvard Law School, Douglas Thomas of USC's Annenberg School for Communication, Michael Eisenberg of the University of Washington Information School and Henry Lowood of Stanford University. The panel will be moderated by Steve Anderson of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Please join us on Berkman Island in Second Life on November 13 at 4:00 (PST/SLT). This panel is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative on Digital Media and Learning and generously hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Participation is limited to 45 audience members, so sign in early.

If you already have a Second Life account, use this SLURL to teleport directly to Berkman Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/114/53/24

Accounts in Second Life are free, but they take a few minutes to set up, so you should plan on signing in, creating your avatar and doing some exploring well in advance of the panel. To start your second life, login here: https://secondlife.com/join

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Hypertext and hypermedia are technologies for supporting structured knowledge work. The Seventeenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Tools for Supporting Social Structures (HT 2006) will focus specifically on tools that help us represent, model and interact with social structures, including cultural, literary, linguistic, and other types of social structures. Recently, in fields ranging from anthropology to linguistics, there has been an increasing focus on representing complex social phenomena using networks or other structure-intensive models. HT 2006 will bring together social scientists with hypertext and hypermedia researchers who specialize in building tools to build, manipulate, and manage structure-intensive models

For more information, visit the conference website at www.ht06.org

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