"A discussion panel on the current and future condition of edupunks..."

MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 2009 (TBC: 6 p.m.)

Confirmed panelists:

1) Jim Groom: The man who created Edupunk (live via video-linkup)

2) Mathew Hoy: UWO Senior Web Designer, Communications and Public Affairs | Games Day Podcast

3) Brian Frank: "Creative generalist and chronic intellectualizer," from London, Ont.

4) David Hall: Writer/Director/Producer/Former Fanshawe College Educator from London, Ont.

We were looking for edupunk events to attend in Canada. We couldn't find any. So in true maker culture fashion, we decided to go ahead and attempt to make our own.

Enter Ontario's first edupunk discussion panel.

We want to get at least three people together who have passion for edupunk. Sit them around a table and have a forty-five minute discussion on its current and future condition. And for those panelists further afield, we'll bring them in via live video linkup. Everything will finish off with a fifteen minute interactive Q+A session with questions garnered from online submissions.

We'll use the University of Western Ontario's studio equipment to professionally produce and record the discussion. We wish to broadcast live to the Internet.

*** We do not plan on having a live audience at this time. Opportunity to watch and take part in the dicussion panel will be made via a live Internet broadcast ***

CONFERENCE NOTES AND PLANNING

I emailed Zoe Branigan-Pipe for an intereview.  Waiting to hear back.

-Steve

Check out @camaxwell from Scotland for poss. vid participant.http://twitter.com/camaxwell

http://maximized.blogspot.com/search?q=edupunk

I (Nicole) emailed Colin Maxwell on his website requesting an interview and added him to Twitter.

Just got this via Twitter - w

Here's his blog http://thenoiseofthestreet.net/

You guys should create a logo for the conference - an apple with a safety pin through it.

Just got this email from poss. participant. Cayden from Twitter message above - w

Hi Wayne,

I was thinking that my specifically social-justice focused practice at UB might be an interesting addition -- I run a Radical Pedagogy Reading Group, which focuses on pedagogy not just as the practice of teaching in the classroom, but also teaching && learning everywhere, every day. As it is, we meet at a bar in Buffalo. Our mostly graduate student members are currently working on community outreach -- specifically to local social and environmental justice groups, and the broader art community.

I am also a principal on a team that is putting together an experimental academic journal, the idea of which is to create community and support for people within academic institutions as well as independently who are doing research/writing on media and mediation, broadly speaking. Our journal is based on the internet, but not in the way that most ejournals are -- we are designing a system to encourage users to upload drafts and rough copies, as well as shorter papers written for classes that might not be publication quality. The idea is to create dialogue about topics as opposed to having a group of editors deciding what is good and what is not good, and then assembling a journal from those rather subjective standpoints. The user base will determine what print issues -- which will be more art/artifact than your average publication -- will be specifically about. It's an experiment with liberating academic publishing.

My background personally is in social justice education and media practice as social intervention, which is necessarily a bit more open, but paradoxically has the tendency to stick itself in the Ivory Tower and not move. Since it has a lot of roots in theory and critical analysis, there's often a propensity towards "academifying" it; I'm very much in the business of de-academifying it.

I don't know if any of this is helpful/interesting, or if my "expertises" fit well into what you're looking for. Thought I'd give a shout-out anyway!

Bests,

c;

-- 

Cayden Mak

Teaching Assistant, MFA Candidate

Media Study, University at Buffalo

thenoiseofthestreet.net

This just in - w

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From Twitter - Via Wayne MacPhail

caitlinkealey: I'd like to hear details so I can watch the edupunk conference :) thanks!

zbpipe: 

Just read over the Edupunk Event proposal - sounds very interesting. I would def. be interested in helping out

mathewh @wmacphail i am in. when/where? 

Consider inviting http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/

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