EdTech Unconference

I began my work for this blog post, frustratedly trying to follow #edcampla virtually via Twitter.  But, on the night this post was due, I still had not been able to gather enough of a sense of the content of the conference to write much of a post at all.  When I brought this up, my instructor advised me to check out #cue14 instead.  The difference was stark!  While most of the tweets that I read for EdCampLA were positive, they lacked content information about the conference.  Tweets for #cue14, however, were full of interesting, relevant information that was helpful to me even without having physically attended the conference.  One resource that I found especially helpful, was the Cue14MegaDoc, a shared Google Doc that contains information, feedback, and reviews of all the individual presentations.  In addition, there were further links that I was able to follow whenever I found a topic of interest.  It was apparent to me that attendees of Cue were aware that many people would be following along on Twitter in the hopes of gleaning meaningful information about the presentations they were unable to attend in person.  Not only was meaningful information tweeted out from each of the presentations, but the attendees were participating in an ongoing conversation with eachother - clarifying, questioning, and contributing to each others' experience.  While the EdCampLA twitter feed left me questioning what the conference was about, Cue14 piqued my interest in getting a front row seat for the next event.