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From January 27 to 29 will be held at Clear, in New Brunswick, the symposium See education differently. This event follows on from the Clair2010 conference. It will bring together educators wishing to reflect on the transformation of the school towards a place animated by what the tools of “Web 2.0” allow, in Canada and throughout the Francophonie.
A portion of the event, which will be held at the Haut-Madawaska Learning Center (C @ HM), will be more of the “presentation” type, by renowned speakers. These include Daniel Peraya (University of Geneva), François Guité (English teacher on loan from MELS), Laurence Juin (teacher, mother and internet user!) And Sébastien Paquet (university researcher and blogger).
While consulting schedule of activities, we immediately see that the focus will first be on networking and forging links which, let's bet it, will then pave the way for particularly rewarding collaborative projects.
On Friday, an educational fair will allow several participants to exhibit projects that they have experienced or with which they are associated. Thus, themes such as the C @ HM's ENVOL program, the critical skills of future teachers with regard to the Internet, a model of assisted self-management of learning, a project for the use of iPod Touch in second and third year classes. Grade 6, collaborative writing, the use of Twitter in text production, entrepreneurial community school, etc., will likely be discussed.
On Saturday, a BarCamp (workshop type: no spectators, only participants) will bring people together in discussions on common interests. Among the themes announced: how to survive the tech in the classroom, transform school libraries, the basic principles of Web 2.0, is the university doing enough in terms of Internet training ?, examples of winning use of Web 2.0 in the classroom , ICTs in a community school, evaluation of productions produced using 2.0 tools, school administrators as agents of change, etc.
The event will be limited to 225 participants. Already, more than 170 people have registered. Find here relevant information on this subject, as well as an overview of the participants.
The site which gathers all the information on the event is here: http://clair2011.wikispaces.com (you will notice that it is fully participatory!)
The Infobourg will unfortunately not be there, but we will not fail to summarize the echoes thanks to our magic ears (and to Web 2.0!)!
By Audrey Miller
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