What if at your next education experience, the speaker gave all the expert-power to the audience? What if the participants were empowered to take more control of their learning, collaboration and dialogue? It's happening in secondary schools, colleges, universities and some education experiences across the globe. It's peeragogy or paragogy, also known as peer-based learning. Defining Peeragogy In short, peeragogy is peer-based learning or learning from each other. It acknowledges the … [Read more...]
Creating Community, Identity And Reflection With Your Conference Space
Have you ever seen a movie that starts with a fast action scene? Immediately, you are pulled into the middle of things. Screenwriters call this media res or in the middle of a plot. They know that they can pull their viewers into the story by placing the action at the beginning. This same principle can be applied to your conference and its space. Attendees Enter On Action Conference registration areas that are easy to navigate are critical for registrants to feel safe and welcome in a space. … [Read more...]
Foster These New Participant Attitudes For Your Next Conference Experience
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do I tidied up my point of view I got a new attitude! Patti LaBelle, New Attitude As a conference organizer, when was the last time that you had a new attitude about your participants' conference experience? Or are you, "Running hot, running cold...running into overload" as you plan your next event. Shaping Attitudes Our attitudes steer our decisions. They build momentum in everything we do. Or they can become … [Read more...]
You Need These Six Actions At Your Next Conference
Do you design your conference meeting space with participants' behaviors and actions in mind? Or do you design meeting space based on what is the most efficient and not necessarily the most effective? Regardless, you have the unique ability to motivate and stimulate your participants' specific behaviors during your event. Orienting The Room For Specific Purposes Orientation is the relative positioning of people and things. It is the principal vehicle directing human attention. It is also the … [Read more...]
Creating Conference Meeting Space For Innovation And Collaboration
Walk into any space and consciously or not, that space tells us about how to respond. We internally feel what we are supposed to do there. We read the physical environment like we read another person's emotions. The context of the space determines what we do there. Space Matters Space is the body language of any conference and its organizational culture. When you walk into most theaters, the space tells you that you will be sitting passively as you're entertained. When you walk into most … [Read more...]
Catalyst Conferences: How To Plan And Produce Next-Generation Conferences & Events
Here is the slidedeck from my presentation to EventSolutions 2010 on Catalyst Conferences: How To Plan and Produce Next-Generation Conferences And Events. People today are learning in new ways that are both collective and egalitarian. They contribute to Wikipedia, comment on blogs, teach themselves programming and figure out work-arounds to online video games. They follow links embedded in articles to build a deeper understanding. They discuss issues in online chats in an interactive and … [Read more...]
