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Get the Word Out MACUL 2010 Conference Presenters!

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It’s that time of year again. In a little more than a week, the attendees, presenters, keynote speakers, and vendors will descend upon Grand Rapids, MI for the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning annual conference. This year, MACUL 2010 will bring together  3,000 educators from across Michigan, all of them eager to be inspired to transform their teaching with new technologies, new methods, and new thoughts.

Want to make sure your message impacts and inspires as many attendees as possible? Check out the MACUL 2010 Forums over at MACULSpace, our association’s social network! You can post your session, workshop, or idea for a guerrilla workshop and share your presentation directly with the almost 2,500 members of our social network.

Why post your Session(s) on the MACULSpace Forum?

  • Upload your slide show or other presentation files and resources so that attendees can easily access them
  • Reach out beyond the conference by connecting in the forum with people who attended your session, but want to know more
  • Give attendees a place to share, synthesize, and discuss your session

There are 3 forums, one each for the 3 main types of sessions at the MACUL conference:

  • 2010 General Conference Sessions – Share Resources, Participate in Discussions, and chat about general MACUL 2010 Breakout  Sessions.
  • 2010 Workshop & Hands-On Sessions – Share Resources, Participate in Discussions, and chat about MACUL 2010 Workshops, Pre-cons, and Hands-on Sessions.
  • 2010 Guerrilla Sessions – Have a great idea for a session at the last minute. Plan it “on-the-fly”, promote it, and host in the Guerrilla Session room.

Twitter User?

Posting to static discussion forums not your thing? Consider using the #macul10 hashtag in Twitter to help Twitter users at the conference find out about what’s going on before, during, and post-conference. Here are a few ways to follow what’s going on in the twitterverse:

Got Your Own Idea for Promotion?
There are lots of other ways to promote your session(s) or help people find sessions that will interest them at the conference, including blogs, uploading videos and pictures, but we’d love to hear what you have in mind for sharing.

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Back Channels, Get Your Back Channels While They’re Hot!

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You wanted Back Channels, and MACUL has delivered!

Take a moment to check out the video below to see just how the official MACUL Space or Twitter Back Channels can help you connect in real time with other conference attendees. Share information about a session (while sitting in on the session), help cheer someone up that’s halfway through a mind-numbing lecture on the significance of packet shaping, or just see what a friend is up to on the other end of the conference center.

You can also view a nice large full size version of the MACUL Back Channel video by clicking on the link here.

Feel free to use the MACUL Space chat, or MACUL Twitter Feeds to keep yourself connected and share thoughts while at the conference, just remember your best Internet etiquette :)

Start Your PLN Today!

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social networkHad a chance to digest Andy’s excellent overview of his Personal Learning Network? If not, it makes for great reading on how one educator’s experience with MACUL, and other organizations, led him from being a follower to a creative leader of educational technology in our state. While many of us may not be up to the challenge of creating our own PLNs from scratch, there’s a great place to join an active site full of resources, connections, people, and discussions that will help you push your own boundaries as an educator.

MACUL Space is the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning’s social networking site for past, present, and future MACUL members to connect with one another outside of the conference, share and discover resources, and either begin to build, or extend, your own personal learning network. This year, there’s something extra special on MACUL Space! In addition to being able to share videos, pictures, blog, and chat about the conference, the MACUL Space discussion forum has three new topics:

2009 Conference Sessions – A place to talk about sessions you’re excited for, or discuss resources discovered during the conference’s 60 minutes sessions.

2009 Conference Workshops – A place to talk about either pre-conference workshops or hands-on session during the conference. Useful for sharing what you may have done with the knowledge you gained from a hands-on session.

2009 Guerrilla Sessions – More will be said on the Guerrilla sessions later, but this is a great place to plan, organize, and talk about the MACUL Conference’s “unconference sessions” that we like to call Guerrilla Sessions.

If you find the idea of building your own network of learners and educators a bit too daunting, you’re welcome to come join MACUL Space! The network is already in place, filled with resources, lesson ideas, problem solvers, and over 1,100 like-minded educators when it comes to using technology. Give your PLN a “kick-start” before the conference.

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