You’ve read about my live blogging postings from years back and even presented a paper about it. Live blogging sessions have become de riguer in these conferences although at the Networked Learning Conference 2010 (#NLC2010) it only seems like about 5% of the attendees are using a device. Is this cultural or economic or just pure lack of electrical plugs in the session rooms?(!) Whatever the reason, it is interesting to investigate.
Due to parallel sessions live-Twittering can become linear so an idea by my colleague Joost Robben is to develop a live-mindmap. He is in one session and I’m in another and together we can add the themes being discussed in the sessions we are viewing and be able to see connections immediately. Although we continue to live-Twitter the conference, this mindmap provides an additional dimension especially for the visual learner.
So if you are at the conference, do participate in this live mindmap. For those reading the mindmap, post your comments here on your thoughts on the themes that are occurring in these sessions.