Present is Prologue
NERCOMP is holding an unconference on the LMS in Worcester, MA on March 5th. I will be delivering the unkeynote on the unLMS. Since it is an unkeynote, I will tell the audience nothing important about the LMS, instead relying on them to have more of the answers than I do.
In other words, it’s a lot like a regular keynote, only we’re more honest about it.
[…] role of the LMS in the broader academic technology ecosystem. Also worthy of note, is an upcoming LMS Unconference, though there is an agenda, the conference outcomes will be dependent upon each individual’s […]
[…] to do something different than the usual fare in order to make it work. And yet, Stephen Downes had warned me that he, Brian Lamb, and D’Arcy Norman had tried giving an unkeynote before and, in his […]
Brian Lamb, D’Arcy Norman and I tried that once at a conference in Vancouver. http://www.downes.ca/post/34030
They almost lynched us. They were not happy to receive an unkeynote. So I’m hoping you have more success.
I am hoping that my audience has lower expectations of me than yours did of you.
Hey!
I just wanted to say you did a great job speaking at the Un-conference yesturday. The overall structure of the event was great, but I don’t think I would have had nearly as much energy going into it without your introduction.
Thanks!
Thanks for the kinds words, Brenton. It was my privilege and pleasure.