March 1, 2005
AECT and a non-proposal for a non-session
Cognitive Dissonance » More Long Tail
Nate, if we get to the point where we agree, then what happens to this thread? I think we have agreed in spirit on most of these posts. I just tend to be a bit more cautious when looking to a particular technology to change things. For me, it is much more about the activity the technology enables and issues of change related to adoption. I guess that is the point of dialog in any of its forms: to create a shared understanding even if it does not result in complete agreement.
I DO agree that AECT should embrace the new forms of information dissemination (note that I do not believe that this means one or another specific type of technology). I also suspect that all three of your hypotheses about lack of adoption within AECT are correct to varying degrees.
We know that there are a few AECT folks with blogs out there and it seems that only a few of us are actively connected. Rather than look to this as simply as berating those who need to get on board, why don't we now begin to move the conversation to discuss what we can do now, even with only a few people, to begin to affect change?
David made the suggestion that we put in a proposal at the conference to discuss these issues. I am sure there are a number of people who are going to have some sessions on blogging or other related technologies (Trey? David?).
Here's a fun thought: Why don't we not have a proposal and have a non-session. In other words, is there a place we could find to have a roundtable that is not official in any way and the only publicity is through blogs? I am somewhat familiar with the conference hotel, having been there for a different conference. There are some restaurants and other gathering areas. The title of the non-session (you have to have a catchy title, right?): "This session does not exist: Thoughts, musings, and debate over how AECT must change to meet the needs of the information age."
Of course, based on Nate's email to the DDL list on his recent experience with reading proposals, would non-session proposals be held to the same standard as session proposals 
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UPDATE March 02: See the post yesterday on Radical Sessions on the AECT news blog.
Posted by Rovy at March 1, 2005 8:00 AM
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There is already a LOT of stuff happening around this, Rovy. Scott Adams has put a post on the Overlay trying to get some feedback on what kind of proposal to make. The Strategic Task Force has proposed this as the Presidential Thread for Orlando already. More later on Cog Diss.
Posted by: nate at March 2, 2005 8:25 AM