hack your conference
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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
@elizabethglau
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
story views
69,429
resources
72
countries
27,000
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
