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

Had 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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