eFest 2008 programme published!

The full programme and speaker details for eFest 2008 have now been published (phew!). We're really excited about the level of expertise, experience and variety of stories that will be shared at the conference.

Some highlights:

• George Siemens and Stephen Downes - Connectivism & Connected Knowledge
  
• Jeff Lebow & Dave Cormier - The edTechTalk story
• Leigh Blackall - Now that teaching is dead how do we learn?
• Workshops like WikiEducator and Podcasting
• Justin Sampson outlining the plans for the Ako Aotearoa web site
• Stories from the trenches - TANZ and SUNY organisational collaboration experiences
• James Farmer - Edublogs

See you there :-)

Rough eFest programme and speaker bio's released

eFest 2008 will run over 3 days with a similar format to eFest 2007.

1. Day 1: a mix of keynote speakers and parallel presentations or workshops
   • TANZ
   • Justin Sampson
   • Stephen Downes
   • Midnight Assembly
   • Peter Higgs
2. Day 2: mainly keynote speakers with opportunity for group discussion and activities
• Stephen Marshall
• Leigh Blackall
• Terry Neal
• Andrew Higgins
• Wayne Mackintosh
• James Dalziel
• James Farmer
• Konrad Glogowski
3. Day 3: a mix of keynote speakers and parallel presentations and workshops
   • George Siemens
   • Owen O'Neill
   • Wikieducator workshop
   • Sandy Britain

More details will be published shortly and please note that the scheduled presentation days are subject to change. You can also view the speaker summaries organised by conference theme here.

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More eFest speakers confirmed!

In addition to the speakers announced last week we can confirm the following people will be joining us at eFest 2008.

• James Farmer
• Wayne Mackintosh
• Stephen Marshall
• Alexandra Pickett

You can read some more about these great speakers here.

We now have a sponsorship and exhibition info kit available and don't forget to keep those presentation proposals and registrations coming.

eFest 2008 - Speakers announced

We have some great speakers confirmed to support our Connected Learning themes, with more to be announced shortly:

• George Siemens and Stephen Downes (Virtual)
  
• James Dalziel (Virtual)
  
• Leigh Blackall
• Owen O'Neil
• Terry Neal
• Dr Sandy Britain
• Peter Higgs (Virtual)
  

The call for papers is also now open, as are registrations (conference fee is $400 + GST for the full 3 day event).