Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Conference 2.0 News - Homeschooling, STEMxCon, Library 2.013, Education Film Festival, Reinventing K12, & More

This is an update of the worldwide virtual conferences from Web 2.0 Labs.

Details are below on the newly-announced (and happening fast!) homeschooling and independent learning conference, the super-exciting STEMx conference in September, the "future of libraries" (Library 2.013) conference in October, GlobalEdCon 2013, and more! These "peer pd" opportunitiesare unlike anything else available online: they are completely free, they are focused on making it easy for practitioners to present, and they emphasize connecting, creating, and collaborating.  Also, teasers below for Connected Educator Month, an education film festival, and Revinventing K12.

2013 WORLDWIDE HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCE
August 23 - 24, 2013
http://www.HomeschoolConference.com
We've just announced the inaugural worldwide Homeschool Conference. This two-day, online, and free event will provide an opportunity for the sharing of strategies, practices, and resources by those involved with homeschooling, unschooling, free schools, democratic schools, and other forms of alternative and independent education. The response has been enthusiastic, and intriguingly from many traditional educators wanting to learn more or already serving homeschool students in some way. We invite all to participate and to come to the conference site to learn more about becoming a conference presenter, volunteer, advisory and outreach board member, partner, or sponsor! It's going to be a wild ride holding a conference this quickly, but we expect a TON of fun sessions, and even a small film festival!

2013 GLOBAL STEMx EDUCATION CONFERENCE
September 19 - 21, 2013
http://www.STEMxCon.com
We are getting an AMAZING set of presentation proposals for the world’s first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. We've already started accepting presentations, which we're doing in the order they were submitted. Submit one! Proposals can made between now and September 1st. If your organization involved in STEMx endeavors, and encourage you to become a conference partner (it's free, and comes with some benefits!). We are also looking for global advisory board members who can help publicize the conference in their local areas. More information on the conference site.

LIBRARY 2.013 - THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES CONFERENCE
October 18 - 19, 2013
http://www.library2013.com
Our third annual Library 2.0 conference on libraries, librarians, and librarianship is also generating GREAT session proposals, which we are also in the process of reviewing and accepting. There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as, MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, and more! Proposals can made between now and September 30th. We're also thinking of doing a set of K-12 / teacher-librarian pre-conference --keynotes--stay tuned for more information.


2013 GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
November 18 - 22, 2013
http://www.globaledcon.com
This is the great "mother ship" of our virtual conferences. Coming into our fourth annual event, we are so excited for another five days of all-out connecting and collaborating. If you've never been a part of this event, you MUST find some time to participate. Focused on helping teachers and students connect globally, we're proud of the amazing network that has been formed around this conference. We might just hit 500 presentations this year! The call for proposals will open very soon, and all are invited to participate.

2014 OZeLIVE - ED TECH DOWN UNDER
January 17 - 18, 2014
http://www.ozelive.com (coming)
We're in our early planning stages for an Australia / New Zealand time-zone friendly educational technology virtual conference. There some definite excitement building. More information to come.

2014 RETHINKING HIGHER ED
February, 2014
http://www.rethinkinghighered.com (coming)
Also in the early planning stages, but very excited about this event!

2014 SCHOOL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
March 27, 2014
http://www.schoolleadershipsummit.com
After a terrific first summit this year, TICAL, the founding sponsor, has enthusiastically committed to doing this again! Look for more news in the fall.

MORE NEWS:

  • Connected Educator Month has been announced for October this year, and it's going to be awesome. We'll integrate the Library 2.013 conference into the month's publicity, and it looks likely that the terrific Reform Symposium will take place early in the month as a part of this massive online love-fest for connected learning.
  • We're making some plans for a worldwide education film festival at the start of 2014. If you know filmmakers (or are one) and you want to talk about this with me, please reach out (steve@hargadon.com)!
  • A final tease is for a special event in November, under wraps right now, but tentatively titled "Reinventing K12." Stay tuned!.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Tuesday Interview - Student Entrepreneurship and the Real Flipped Classroom

Join me tonight, Tuesday, July 30th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Doan Winkel and Michael Issa, co-organizers of a global student startup competition (USASBE Launch!) from the e United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. We're going to talk about student initiative and entrepreneurship, and how they might help to redefine educational practice.

Doan wrote a blog post last year that caught my eye, titled "Education – Listen Up!! You’re Using the Wrong Flip." As a self-professed drinker of the "flipped classroom juice," and a preacher of the benefits of this "revolutionary" method of teaching (his quotation marks), Doan came to find that flipping the classroom didn't produce the transformative learning he was looking for. He writes:
Yes, [flipping the classroom is] innovative – “featuring new methods” – or at least it used to be. But it’s not an effective method of education if the goal is to produce engaged learners. Teachers struggle with how to deliver content. The flip was an innovative Band-Aid for the wrong problem. The problem with poor education experiences isn’t how to deliver content, but how to engage students in their own learning.
He goes on to ask how we can "transform education and learning so students want to engage," and says that we need to flip the actual education experience:
1. Activate the education experience. Let students learn by doing, so they breathe life into their learning. They want it to be alive – let that happen! I spend time teaching my students how to learn first, and then hint at what to learn. They drive their own education from there. I allow them to apply the knowledge to real-world problems so it’s sticky. I develop semester-long projects because it requires sustained engagement and collaboration. My students enjoy their education because it is active.
2. Let students own their learning. Students are our customers. They have a vision for their education. Let them live it. They want to take responsibility for their own learning. Give up control of the content, put teasers in the students’ minds and they will run farther with it than you could ever go. My students enjoy their education because it is theirs, not mine.
3. Let students assess their learning process. This is the most difficult aspects of the flipped experience for most educators. Don’t assign grades. That’s right, NO GRADES!! They’re [bullsh*t] metrics. When students focus on grades (they will because they’re conditioned to by a broken education system) they lose interest in their learning, they forget what they learn post-assessment, and they look for rational (or lazy) shortcuts. Grades create feel-bad education. If that’s what you’re striving for, shame on you. If you’ve settled for that, shame on you. A single grade can’t possibly capture the entire educational experience of many months. Instead, implement an approach where students individually create a documented process.
Number two above is a little bit of a dead giveaway--Doan teaches at the university level. I'm hoping those in the live audience tonight who teach in K-12 will give some feedback on how many of their students "have a vision for their education," and/or what responsibility we have to help those students develop such. And we'll ask Doan and Michael for their thoughts on this as well!

Date: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://www.futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recording: A full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-07-30.1431.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 and an audio mp3 recording is at http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/trueflip.mp3 and at http://www.futureofeducation.com.

From Doan's Blog:

"My name is Doan Winkel.

"It’s a unique name (the first part anyway), which I think accurately represents the unique approach I take to entrepreneurship, education and life in general.

"I am a husband and a father, an entrepreneur and an educator.

"I practice being a husband and father in Normal, IL (ironic, I know!!)

"I practice education by teaching entrepreneurship at Illinois State University.

"I practice entrepreneurship through SproutEcon, LLC.

"My goal is to leave a positive footprint in this world by being a force of productively disruptive change that motivates younger generations to tackle their dreams and turn their ideas into realities."

Michael Issa is Co-founder and CEO of Quipu Applications, Inc., and is responsible for the overall strategy, operations, and financial management of the company. Previously, Mr. Issa served as Vice President of Product Management at Quipu, responsible for all aspects of research and design of Quipu’s flagship product, BusinessPlan. For the last fifteen years, Mr. Issa has held various positions in the data center and enterprise infrastructure industry for both software and hardware manufacturers. He holds an MS in Mathematics, Curriculum and BS in Finance and Marketing.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Tuesday Interview - Frans Johansson on the Randomness of Success

Join me Tuesday, July 23rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Frans Johansson, author, entrepreneur, and innovation thought leader.

The Click Moment, Fran's most recent book, argues the provocative and counterintuitive idea that "success is random—far more random than we would like to believe." While the book is focused on the business world, I couldn't help but find striking similarities with the stories we tell about student school success.

In the book, Frans tells the story of a rock, paper, scissors (RPS) world championship. While mathematically the best possible chance for winning in RPS is throwing random "hands," the person who ultimately wins has almost always been following some particular strategy. While all the other strategies at a competition obviously did not succeed, the strategy of the winner is easily mistaken--by virtue of the winning--for being a correct or valuable strategy. It's not, of course, but it appears so especially to the winner. Success strategies, Frans argues, are almost always post-success simplifications of actual events, attributing to conscious plans what was often chance and randomness.

Let's take those who succeed in school. Do they work hard? Yes, mostly. Are they good people? Largely. Is their success in school actually the result of their independent individual hard work and goodness? Or how much of that success had to do with their family, their neighborhood, particular interactions with caring adults, or even the financial ability to not work and focus on school? I did a massive game of RPS with an audience in Colorado recently, and then made this same connection with student success versus the elephant-in-the-room factors which enable it, and was very suprised to sit across the table at lunch with an administrator who still said, "Well, the top ten percent will always bubble up."

Part of what bothers me about this idea of "the top ten percent" it's casual dismissal of our responsibility to see the inherent potential and worth of every student. Not that this administrator hasn't worked hard his whole career, and I'm certain he's done much good. But telling a story of student success as predetermined and not subject to random (outside the student's control) factors just doesn't seem accurate or fair. The other aspect of it that bothers me is the idea that our system truly serves about 10% of the students, and the rest are there to--what?--be labeled as having failed to learn? Unfortunately, I think that is a message that our institutions of learning send to most students.

I know there are deeper ideas here, and that I haven't even touched on the purpose of education, and whether what we see as success in school is actually "success" or just the ability to manage and perform well in a system that values conformity and compliance (which would play even more into randomness and chance than a system that valued agency and self-determination). Frankly, Frans is being generous to come on an education interview show and to allow me to stretch his ideas into this arena. But if recent studies I've read are even close (half of all US students are held back at least one year in school, and 25% end up dropping out, and 9% are medicated), then can we question the story we tell of success in school, and is it as flawed as it is in business? If so, what do we do?

The conclusion in the business world for achieving success, according to Frans, means "capturing the randomness and focusing it in our favor." We'll talk about what he means by that, and then we'll explore what that might look like in a learning environment.

Date: Tuesday, Juy 23rd, 2013
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://www.futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recording:  A full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-07-23.1713.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 and an audio mp3 recording is at http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/fransjohansson.mp3 and at http://www.futureofeducation.com.

Frans Johansson is an author, entrepreneur, and innovation thought leader who has spoken to audiences worldwide. He leads The Medici Group with the same passion, force, and energy he exhibits in his highly rated keynotes. He founded The Medici Group to move beyond simply inspiring through his talks, and instead work hands on with clients to help drive innovative growth and business transformation.

His debut, THE MEDICI EFFECT, was an international bestseller that shattered assumptions about how great ideas happen. His follow up book, THE CLICK MOMENT, obliterates the idea that in business you can plan, strategize, and analyze your way to success.

Frans has been featured on CNN’s AC360, ABC’s Early Morning Show, and CNBC’s The Business of Innovation series. Raised in Sweden by his African-American/Cherokee mother and Swedish father, Frans has lived all his life at The Intersection™. Prior to The Medici Group, he founded a software company, a healthcare firm, and a hedge fund. He has written articles on healthcare, information technology, and the science of sport fishing. Frans earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from Brown University and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Follow Frans on Twitter at @Frans_Johansson. (Bio from Medici Group website.)

Monday, July 15, 2013

Announcing the 2013 Homeschool Conference: Homeschooling, Unschooling, and Free / Democratic / Alternative Schools

I'm pleased to announce the inaugural worldwide Homeschool Conference, August 23 - 24, 2013! All are invited to participate in this two-day, online, and free event.

My name is Steve Hargadon, and I founded and run the online social network for educators called Classroom 2.0. I also hold open and online conferences for educators and I host an interview series called the Future of Education. My wife and I are the parents of four children, all of whom have at some time had a form of homeschooling or independent learning. My co-chair for the conference is writer and homeschool proponent Pat Farenga. The conference website is http://www.homeschoolconference.com.

Public discussions on education have been increasingly more accepting of the variety of learning opportunities for students, and also of the potential for valuable dialog on practices that arise from non-traditional learning environments. While the Homeschool Conference is geared toward those participating in or wanting to learn more about homeschooling, unschooling, free schools, democratic schools, and other forms of alternative education, my hope is that this conference will also be valuable for traditional educators looking to expand their scope and understanding of teaching and learning practices.

The conference is based on a peer-learning model I've developed over the last several years which invites high levels of interaction and participation. As an online event, without the constraints faced by physical events (time/space/travel), the goal is to get as many of you as possible to present and share your experiences, practices, and resources with each other. First-time presenters: you are not only welcome to submit proposals--you are encouraged to do so! 

You will also notice that the conference, and the proposal process, are hosted in this social-networking website. Please join the site to be kept informed of conference news, and then consider taking the opportunity the site provides to connect with others, both before, during, and after the conference. You are also welcome to start independent topic, organization, or other conversations or groups for further connecting and sharing.


Presentation proposals can be submitted HERE starting immediately, and they will be accepted on a rolling basis within a week of submission. There is more information below on becoming a conference volunteeradvisory and outreach board memberpartner, or sponsor! If you would like to submit a film to (or help coordinate) the online film festival for the conference, please contact me directly.

Please let others know about the conference (a logo you can use is here). And see you online!

Steve
Steve Hargadon
Co-Chair, 2013 Homeschool Conference
steve@hargadon.com


Attending:
The Homeschool Conference is held online and is free to attend. The week before the conference begins a conference schedule, with links to each session, will be posted on the site. The conference platform is Blackboard Collaborate, on online platform that combines video, audio, chat, presentation, and other capabilities, and it supports participation using Window, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Presenting:
The Call for Proposals for the conference opens July 15th, 2013. While the final deadline for submissions is 
August 20th, 2013, presenters will be notified of acceptance on a rolling basis starting July 20th, 2013. There is a motivation for early submission and acceptance, since presenters are able to schedule their own presentation times once accepted and the options become more limited as time goes on.

Advisory and Outreach Board:  
Anyone can apply to be a member of the international advisory & outreach board. Advisory board members are recognized on the website and are asked to:
  • Promote both participation and attendance at the conference
  • Help us find partner organizations in their region(s)
  • If possible, help moderate sessions during the actual conference
To sign up for the advisory board, please make sure you have joined the conference network, and then join the advisory board group HERE.


Conference Partner Organizations:
Whether you are a small homeschool co-op or up to a multi-school organization, we want to encourage you to become a conference partner. You must be non-commercial and primarily or substantively focused on home- or alternative-schooling. Once approved, your organization or event will be listed with a link, logo, and a short description.

Our goal for the conference is to have it be a milestone event, bringing together individuals and organizations from all over the world. We recognize that much (if not most!) of the outreach for this conference will come from your sharing the conference information in your online and other social communities, or to your own membership if you have one. Our recognizing you on the site is part of our appreciation for you for doing this!

There are no financial obligations for being a partner organization--all we do ask is that you actively promote the conference to your membership and network, and encourage participation as well as presentations and submissions. To apply to be a conference partner organization, please make sure you have joined the conference network, and then join the partner group HERE.

Conference Sponsors:
There are opportunities for commercial sponsorship of the Homeschool Conference, and both recognition and authentic appreciation for financial support will be given to those who choose to sponsor. Sponsorship levels and benefits can be discussed with Steve Hargadon directly at steve@hargadon.com or 916-283-7901.

Volunteering:
It is not an exaggeration to say that volunteers are the life-blood of this unique kind of peer and participative conference! Volunteers help moderate the presentation sessions, they do not need to have prior experience. To find out how you can help, and why it is so much fun to do so, please join our volunteer group

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Conference 2.0 Updates - STEMxCon Proposals Open, Library 2.013 Acceptances, GlobalEdCon Updates, OZeLive, & More

This is an update of the worldwide virtual conferences from Web 2.0 Labs.

These are "peer professional development" opportunities that (I humbly submit) are unlike anything else available online: they are completely free, and they emphasize connecting, creating, and collaborating. We've been calling them "Conference 2.0," but I'm thinking instead of calling them SMOOChes--Synchronous and Massive Open Online Collaborations. Like MOOCs, only more intimate. :)  

Because the events are virtual and we don't have the traditional time/space/travel constraints of a physical event, we've boldly gone past the traditional conference model of "vetting and selecting" presenters to inclusion and audience choice. We know that educators and learners often learn the most from their peers, and so give everyone who wants to the chance to present. We also know that presenting before a worldwide peer audience is often a life- and career-changing moment, and everyone deserves that chance. The once-surprising (but now expected) result is that the caliber of the presentations is extremely high.

Another positive result is the amazing breadth and depth of content presented. Last year we had almost 1,000 practitioner presentations on a vast array of engaging topics (and close to 100,000 attendee logins). These events truly are great fun, and are distinguished by inclusiveness, high-volunteer participation, and true community-building. Please join us for one or all of these events.

Important date updates are included below.

2013 GLOBAL STEMx EDUCATION CONFERENCE
September 19 - 21, 2013
http://www.STEMxCon.com
The world’s first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more (the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics acronym is no longer adequate, as it is missing well over 20 letters that represent key skills & disciplines). Therefore, x = Computer Science (CS), Computational Thinking (CT), Inquiry (I), Creativity & Innovation (CI), Global Fluency (GF), Collaboration ( C ), ...and other emerging disciplines & 21st century skills.
Important Dates: The call for proposals is currently open at the website and acceptances have started. Proposals can made between now and September 1st.
News and Information: As this is the first year of the conference, we're working hard to reach out to all organizations involved in STEMx endeavors, and encourage you to become a conference partner (it's free, and comes with some benefits!). We are also looking for global advisory board members who can help publicize the conference in their local areas. More information on the conference site. A big shout-out of thanks to sponsors Hewlett Packard, ISTE, and ePals--other organizations interested in supporting this event can email me directly.

LIBRARY 2.013 - THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES CONFERENCE
October 18 - 19, 2013
http://www.library2013.com
Join us for our third annual Library 2.0 conference on libraries, librarians, and librarianship. The worldwide reception to this conference has been terrific, and within a few short years it has become extremely well-known. There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as, MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, and more!
Important Dates: The call for proposals is currently open at the website and acceptances have started. Proposals can made between now and September 30th.
News and InformationThere are already over 50 accepted presentations for the conference, and the topics are amazing and well-worth a quick browse. Big shout-outs here for amazing conference founding sponsor The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University and for new sponsor ePals! Potential sponsors, partner organizations, and global outreach advisory board members are encouraged to go to the site and sign up.

2013 GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
November 18 - 22, 2013
http://www.globaledcon.com
This is the great "mother ship" of our virtual conferences. Coming into our fourth annual event, we are so excited for another five days of all-out connecting and collaborating. If you've never been a part of this event, you MUST find some time to participate. Focused on helping teachers and students connect globally, we're proud of the amazing network that has been formed around this conference. We might just hit 500 presentations this year!
Important Dates: We haven't yet opened the conference call for proposals but will do so this month.
News and Information: iEARN will again be a major sponsor of the conference, and ePals rounds out their significant commitment to these events by also helping out. We appreciate them!

2014 OZeLIVE - ED TECH DOWN UNDER
January 17 - 18, 2014
http://www.ozelive.com (coming)
We're in our early planning stages for an Australia / New Zealand time-zone friendly educational technology virtual conference. There some definite excitement building. More information to come.

2014 RETHINKING HIGHER ED
February, 2014
http://www.rethinkinghighered.com (coming)
Also in the early planning stages, but very excited about this event!

2014 SCHOOL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
March 27, 2014
http://www.schoolleadershipsummit.com
After a terrific first summit this year, TICAL, the founding sponsor, has enthusiastically committed to doing this again! Look for more news in the fall.

OTHER CONFERENCES WE'RE WORKING ON
If any of the conferences below are of interest to you--as a sponsor, partner, or organizer--let me know.
  • The first-ever worldwide homeschool and alternative education conference, trying to pull of in August (just a few weeks away). Look for an announcement this week!
  • Gaming in Education. Not sure when and how we're going to get this scheduled, but the interest level is high. Finding a founding sponsor would help (call me!).
  • Search Matters - Digital and Search Literacy
  • Future of Museums
  • Hacking Education
  • Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Open Education Conference

FINAL THANKS

Special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the amazing virtual platform that keeps all of this humming.

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Wednesday Interview - A Great Learning Experiment Begins at Black Mountain SOLE

On a stunningly-beautiful 1,200-acre campus near Asheville, North Carolina, a fascinating experiment in learning is about to start this fall. Join me Wednesday, July 10th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with members of the Black Mountain SOLE founding team.

On the same grounds where the famous experimental Black Mountain College got its start, and with with permission from Sugata Mitra to use the "Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE)" appellation, the non-profit Black Mountain SOLE will be a residential campus that allows for a variety of alternative learning experiences by providing housing, meal plans, work and meeting spaces, technological infrastructure, mentors, and a community of other learners--everything except the accredited curricular program. Their offerings are much richer than this pithy description, but think of a place where online and independent learners can get the social and intellectual benefits of being in a devoted learning community.

This idea intrigued me as soon as I heard it. Combining online or blended learning experiences with entrepreneurial activity, open meeting spaces, outdoor activity, and meal-time/lounge-area conversations begins to explore a new kind of creativity in rethinking higher education. An experiment like this would be almost impossible for high-cost traditional institutions to play with, but has so very much potential on the disruptive fringes. I can easily envision similar experiments or spaces being conceived in locations all over the world.

I met some of the leadership team for Black Mountain SOLE at one of the most interesting conferences I've been to in years: the AERO Conference, an event that explores all kinds of alternative educational models. It seems somehow more than serendipitous that the day after the conference finished I was already driving from to North Carolina, and a stop at Black Mountain was but a short detour. The surreal tree-shaded drive into the campus was just a prelude to the historic buildings and the incredible views. Within minutes I could imagine so many exciting opportunities in such a place. After a few hours, I was hooked.

We'll talk on the show about how this project has gotten started and funded, what is hoped for this coming year, whom they hope will participate, and what the implications for self-organized learning environments might be. I'll also describe my my own plans to spend this coming year at Black Mountain SOLE (yes, I liked it that much), and some fun events I'll be holding there, including at least one large on-site conference and a number of more intimate deep-dives with educational thinkers!

Date: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://www.futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recording:  It doesn't happen often, but Blackboard Collaborate had technical difficulties during this interview and the recording had all kinds of issues. Sorry that there is not a recording of this session!