NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference, the world's
largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology
coordinators, is being held in San Diego this summer: July 5 - 7.
We have two unique opportunities to present Free and Open Source
Software solutions for schools.
First, we will have a 20-computer lab running Linux thin client that
will be used as a hands-on presentation area, complete with microphone
and projector. The presenters in this area will have 1-hour time
slots concurrent with the overall larger show sessions, *and* will be
included in the official NECC program listings. There are 13 of these
1-hour slots, of which three or four are not spoken for at this point.
If you are interested in presenting during one of these time slots, I
need to hear from you this week so that I can give you instructions on
submitting your proposal online by this coming Friday. Please contact
me directly.
Second, NECC is providing us with a "playground" center. This is a
set of 6 booths where particular products or technologies can be
showcased continuously. These are available during the whole show,
and will need to be staffed the whole time. I'm thinking we could
have booths for: Open Office, SchoolTool, Edubuntu/Ubuntu, Moodle,
Blogging, Python, MySQL, Mambo/Joomla, ? These would be perfect for
students to come and help man the booths and answer questions. I
think this is a wonderful addition to what NECC has provided in the
past. We don't have the same Friday deadline to make these
arrangements, but I would like to hear back quickly from those who
would be willing to come and help manage a booth.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Steve
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Steve Hargadon
steve@hargadon.com
The following just appeared in my inbox - any Californian Moodlers interested? The conference website is at http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/
Thanks Michael, please forward info to CATS. And we do have sales people in CA now! 
Steve Hargadon has been organizing the Open Source Pavillion at NECC for the past few years, and recently did the same at the CA Educational Technology Conference in Palm Springs. Michelle presented there and Moodle had a presense in the Open Source area. We had a great time!
Steve Hargadon has been organizing the Open Source Pavillion at NECC for the past few years, and recently did the same at the CA Educational Technology Conference in Palm Springs. Michelle presented there and Moodle had a presense in the Open Source area. We had a great time!
Hi Jeff, as an example of the problem of having no local partners on the west coast, at the recent CATS conference, where staff representing 414,000 students meet to talk about technology issues and share presentations, with some folks from U of Nevada, and other places, Angel, D2L, and Blackboard/WebCT all had demos and booths.
This has lead many administrative level types (who are used dealing with vendors) to conclude that Angel and D2L are the alternative LMSs, even though 3 of the Cal State campuses are actually using Moodle
.
A 'local' partner who could make it to these sorts of events on the west coast might go a long way toward alleviating this impression.
This has lead many administrative level types (who are used dealing with vendors) to conclude that Angel and D2L are the alternative LMSs, even though 3 of the Cal State campuses are actually using Moodle
A 'local' partner who could make it to these sorts of events on the west coast might go a long way toward alleviating this impression.
Thought I would jump in here as this is right up my aisle.
School Engine is based in San Diego, CA and we applied for Moodle Partner status a few months ago, but haven't been approved yet. School Engine is currently being used in about 5 high/middle/charter schools in California.
I'd like to help represent Moodle on the west coast in any way I can. And hopefully School Engine will be a real Moodle Partner by July 5th!
Let me know what I can do.
School Engine is based in San Diego, CA and we applied for Moodle Partner status a few months ago, but haven't been approved yet. School Engine is currently being used in about 5 high/middle/charter schools in California.
I'd like to help represent Moodle on the west coast in any way I can. And hopefully School Engine will be a real Moodle Partner by July 5th!
Let me know what I can do.