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• How we did the recording and live streaming of #TEDxNYED

  09Mar
  Categories: hardware, resources, software, windows Comments: 3
  

  TEDxNYED used more than $100,000 of equipment (most of which we rented for ~$9,000) to record/broadcast live in HD. We are currently editing the videos which will be placed on TEDx's YouTube channel. @mjmontagne asked me via Twitter if we would share our AV setup, so I fired up Inspiration and made a quick visual. If you have questions, feel free to ask.

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• I’m going to try and deconstruct my experience with #TEDxNYED

  07Mar
  Categories: news, resources Comments: 0

  Yesterday was the TEDxNYED conference. It was an incredible day filled with brilliant educators and equally brilliant speakers. We broadcast it live over the Internet and Livestream (our sponsor) reported to me today that we had over 20,000 views. I can barely comprehend that. Today, while I’m still fresh with memories, I want to try and reflect and deconstruct my experiences yesterday, and my experiences with TEDxNYED overall. In particular I hope to go back to my own tweets, go back some of the 2,871 tweets posted about #tedxnyed yesterday, to the Flickr stream, and to the blogosphere discussing TEDxNYED.

  Some of my main goals for the reflection include:

  • pulling out things that were really meaningful from the talks
  • summarizing if and how TEDxNYED had a diversity problem (in the speaker set)
  • lessons learned from organizing TEDxNYED

  All this, after a perfect whole wheat everything bagel from Bergen Bagels, the best bagles in the world.

  
  (the cool name badges created by Stacy Mar)

  
  (binary apples designed by Lisa Chun)

  
  (@ginab, CEO of Ning.com)

  
  (@jlamontagne, our emcee, and TED fellow)

  
  (@gsiemens, of Connectivism)

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• Photos and thoughts on Creative Commons Salon NYC on opening education

  04Mar
  Categories: future, law, media, resources, teaching Comments: 0
  Last night I sat on a panel with Dave Bill and Kerri Richardson Redding talking about how we use Creative Commons licenses in our school with students and adults. The event was the Creative Commons Salon NYC, and the theme was “Opening Education.” The night started out with Eric Frank of Flat World Knowledge and Neeru Paharia of Peer 2 Peer University. Eric talked about how Flat World was publishing digital textbooks under Creative Commons licenses (non commercial) and had some interesting insight in what seems to be an awful industry in general. Neeru talked about the motivations for being part of an organization that believes that anyone should be able to take college-level classes online, for free.

  Dave, Kerri, and I seemed to focus much more on why Creative Commons was important to students in particular whether giving them methods for publishing their own work, joining into something bigger (the commons), or using material from the Internet that wasn’t entangled in potential legal folly.

  I definitely have some more reflection to do on the event before I can blog more, but thought I should fire out the photos and the summaries. I had a great time with our NYCIST colleagues who were there, too. Thanks for the support!

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  Tags: Creative Commons, David Bill, Flat World Knowledge, Kerri Richardson, Neeru Paharia, NYCIST, P2PU, Peer 2 Peer University, Salon

• I’m Speaking at the Creative Commons NYC Salon on “Opening Education” on March 3rd

  03Feb
  Categories: future, law, literacy, media, resources, teaching Comments: 2
  

  via wiki.creativecommons.org

  I, along with some of my distinguished peers, will be speaking on a panel at the Creative Commons Salon NYC on March 3, 2010. The theme is “Opening Education” and there will be folks from Flat World Knowledge, Peer 2 Peer University, and finally the educators panel (including me!). It will be in lower Manhattan, from 7-10pm. RSVP info is here.

  Hope you can join!

  Posted via web from arvind’s posterous

  Tags: Creative Commons, New York City, Salon, speaking

• TEDx NYED – Apply Today!

  12Jan
  Categories: future, resources, teaching Comments: 0

  I’m one of the organizers for the TEDx NYED conference taking place on March 6, 2010 in New York City. TEDx is a TED-style event, but is completely independently organized. The organizers are mostly educators, but all our passionate about the future of technology in education.

  The speakers are amazing, and they include: Larry Lessig (author, professor at Harvard Law School), Gina Bianchini (founder of Ning), Andy Carvin (NPR), Mike Wesch (professor at Kansas State, YouTube phenom) and many more…

  You sort of can’t afford to miss this event. Because of the limited size (intentional), we ask you to apply. If accepted, the cost of admission is $40. Best deal in town if you ask me!

  Looking forward to meeting you all there.

  Tags: Andy Carvin, conference, education, Gina Bianchini, Larry Lessig, Michael Wesch, Ning, NPR, technology, Ted, TEDx, TEDxNYED, YouTube