I Joined the Secret Revolution

Perhaps you've attended some high brow conference that produces 10 bullet points on "How to Change Education"-- and not much happens. Maybe you work an at institution that restricts you from using a certain technology or forces you to use another. And while the image of a revolutionary edupunk is charming, most of us are not ready to burn down our organizations- we believe in their purpose. Despair not! There is something out there-- an approach of creatively side stepping what limits us, to exploiting what we are forced to use in new ways, to sneak innovations in the back window that don't rock the house.

You are invited to join the Secret Revolution, a movement of experimentation in new technologies, one of sharing what we do, connecting to others, all operating just below the radar. Collectively, we can generate more change in our educational system than any glossy white paper. And... it's really not much of a secret!

Keynote for the 2010 Canadian eLearning Conference hosted at the University of Alberta

Transcript

1. Alan Levine Canadian eLearning Conference 2010
3. How?
5. Nothing is wrong
6. Don’t Blame D’Arcy
7. Your Inner Geek
8. You are on stage
9. cc licensed flickr photo by bookgrl http://flickr.com/photos/bookgrl/1290565748/
10. A Quiet One?
11. http://secretrevolution.us/links
12. Change, Please?
13. cc licensed flickr photo by Eisenvater http://flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/
15. Burn, baby, burn
17. cc licensed flickr photo by lrargerich http://flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3371192248/
18. Sell out
19. cc licensed flickr photo by Matthew Field http://flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/ Thousands of Stories
20. cc licensed flickr photo by Quinn Ryan Mattingly http://flickr.com/photos/terminalnomadphotograhy/2851260192/ Working from the Inside Out...
21. Game Software Evaluation 1995 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/sw/games/
22. Successful?
24. Evil.
25. http://bit.ly/cindy-ppt
27. ahem
28. http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/03/when-slides-go.html http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/ powerpoint/games/ http://www.amazon.com/David-Byrne- Envisioning-Epistemological-Information/dp/ 3882439076
29. pekka what?
30. http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
31. http://www.oit.umn.edu/programs/20-by-20/
33. sucks
34. http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/000031.html “Do not be surprised to see the Blackboards and WebCTs out there beginning to add RSS tools to their systems. Consider what would happen if these course management systems could syndicate synopses of all course offerings or just the assignments I might be enrolled in. The same RSS aggregator I might use to stay in tune with news could also feed me a summary of my pending projects or assignments.” mcli forum, fall 2003 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/forum/fall03/rss.html
35. http://feed2js.org/
36. They Stole OUr Learning Environment - Now We're Stealing It Back http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/007429.html “Moodle VLE is generally locked down, the wiki scrapes every flavour of embed, script and embed are not allowed in resource pages... but - if all you put in an HTML resource page is a single iframe, it seems to get through... So I can actually embed whatever I want in an inframe container within the VLE...” The Amazing Tony Hirst, Open University, http://ouseful.info
37. not a programmer
38. http://doteduguru.com/id5292-mobile-pittstate-how-we-did-it-with-no-money-or-resources.html “I’m a one man army, like many of you. This project wasn’t the result of the effort of a team of a dozen people over 6 months. It was me, a couple weeks, and a lot of lost sleep. To do this, I committed to the idea that it would be a pet project... Part of me feels that you have to be willing to take those risks though when you’re in web development. Playing it safe means you’ll only ever be average.” Michael Fienen, Pittsburg State University
39. http://www.mojopac.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/Aliandrews/second-life-in-your-pocket-presentation “Although the organisation I work for supported and paid me to develop a project using Second Life, we weren't able to install the software on our organisation's computers (not approved - it takes 10 months for software to be approved!) so we used USB sticks and software called 'mojopac' to circumvent the system and we were able to do demos to teachers without the organisation ever knowing”
40. clever
41. cc licensed flickr photo by GeekMom Heather http://flickr.com/photos/heatherweaver/3171294458/ Stepping Outside
42. by John Rodgers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg0trSjx4AM
43. http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/beg-for-foregiveness/ “I had students in Grade 10 Personal Planning do some of their work on a private ning network. For mid term & final report cards students did a self evaluation with a self prescribed mark that we discussed one-on-one while looking at their work and comparing what they did with what I thought was exemplary work... Didn't ask permission from the school or parents to add these students to Ning... that's why I just kept it private.” David Truss
44. risky business
45. http://yammer.com/ “I used Yammer and created an account for our district. Didn't ask or think to. I slowly began inviting people who I thought might find it useful. After I had about 10 folks using it, I told everyone to start inviting others. We now have about 70 people using it (total teaching staff of about 500), that includes board members and superintendents. ” Dean Shareski, Prairie South School Division
46. what if?
47. Jon Beasley Murray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
48. http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/03/10/ou-facebook-apps-reprise/ “The apps were largely developed out of time and in stolen time, and it seems that things are likely to continue in this way (which is both a plus – freeing us from constraints of interminable committees wanting to plan strategies rather than jfdi, and a minus – @liamgh is the only person we trust with the code which means any maintenance falls to him ;-)” Tony Hirst, Open University
49. University of Mary Washington Blogs http://umwblogs.org Jim Groom, http://bavatuesdays.com/20-examples-from-umw-blogs-part-1/
50. expertise
51. Looking for Whitman http://lookingforwhitman.org/ “Utilizing open-source tools to connect classrooms in multiple institutions, the project has created a collaborative online space in which students will be able to research Whitman’s connections to their individual locations and share that research with one another in a dynamic, social, web-based learning environment.”
52. Want to Join? secretrevolution = us
53. flickr photo by Linus Gelber http://www.flickr.com/photos/linus/168956768/
54. party, party
55. cc licensed flickr photos by Ryan Wolf and ryancr http://flickr.com/photos/re_wolf/3615800599/ http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/ Must be open and shared...
56. Share anything revolutionary by tagging in delicious as secretrevolution http://delicious.com/tag/ secretrevolution Tag the Revolution flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/
57. And also tag specific examples with the “secret” tag s3cr3trev http://delicious.com/tag/ s3cr3trev Tag the Revolutionaries flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/
58. cc licensed flickr photo by doug88888 http://flickr.com/people/doug88888/ cc licensed flickr photo by David M* http://flickr.com/photos/d_a_v_i_d_m_/102953776/
59. the point
60. cc licensed flickr photo by Markybon http://flickr.com/photos/markybon/13298546/
61. cc licensed flickr photo by Howard▼Gees http://flickr.com/photos/cyberslayer/2482919523/
62. cc licensed flickr photo by bufivla http://flickr.com/photos/bufivla/2559402015/
63. cc licensed flickr photo by Karen Eliot http://flickr.com/photos/kareneliot/4565196571/
64. cc licensed flickr photo by Xosé Castro http://flickr.com/photos/cibergaita/62711050/
65. cc licensed flickr photo by SiamEye http://flickr.com/photos/puppydogbites/2445384572/
66. cc licensed flickr photo by SiamEye http://flickr.com/photos/puppydogbites/2445405768/
67. http://secretrevolution.us/
68. me too