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Hack your conferenceconnections between classrooms and session rooms

Today’s Content

• Examples of personalized learning at ISTE 2017

• Why attendee experience isn’t just good logistics

• Resources for designing something new

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Elizabeth Glau, CMPAttendee Experience Manager, ISTE

Owner, Building Blocks Social Media

ISTE 2017

Hot topics in edtech• 1:1/BYOD (students using

their personal devices)

• Project-based learning

• Instructional delivery methods, such as flipped and blended learning

• Maker activities and programs

Content Community Conversation

1,469

sessions

15,000

paid

attendees

159,000

tweets

2,489

presenters

20,396

total

attendees

30,000

Facebook

story views

69,429

resources

72

countries

27,000

Instagram

story views

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Personalized learning

exceeding expectations

Represented graphically and textually in the list views of program search. Also represented in filters so that attendees can filter by format (learning style) and sub-format.

Learning Style / Format

• Listen and Learn

– lecture, panel, multipresentation, snapshot, research paper

• Participate and Share

– interactive lecture, poster

• Explore and Create

– BYOD (Bring your own device), workshop, learning academy, playground

• Engage and Connect

– campfires, meeting, social event

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Where did they spend their time?

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Expo Hall

Listen & Learn

Participate & Share

Explore & Create

Outside Program

Engage & Connect

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What is their preferred format?

Participate & Share

• Interactive lecture

• Poster

Explore & Create

• BYOD

• Playground

Listen & Learn

• Lecture

Top survey results

• Interactive lecture

• BYOD

• Lecture

• Poster

• Playground

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Survey says

Attendees found the topics they were seeking in the format they prefer.

Public space

Playgrounds/Posters Lounges

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Session rooms

Flexible learning environment BYOD (Bring your own device)

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Challenges

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Communicating expectations to educators applying to present

Teaching hot topics in a “learning by doing” environment

Attendee experience

data driven decisions

Students do not become students when they walk into a school just as attendees do not become attendees when they walk into a convention center.

Whole Child / Whole Attendee

• Goals and Objectives

• Attendee focused messaging vs internal lingo

• Demographics and psychographics

• Engaging all five senses

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Challenges

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Creating plan for data far enough out

Expectations from attendees when handing over data

Unlearninga new topic

• #EventCanvas from Event Model Generation• Focus group / conference hack-a-thon

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Challenges

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Time in the cycle to re-invent / re-imagine

Selling disruption to leadership

Questions?

Elizabeth Glau, CMP

http://www.elizabethglau.com/

eglau@basicsocialmediatraining.com

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