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What's an Unconference?    
An unconference, according to the Wikipedia entry, is a "conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance." While unconferences are becoming popular (because they provide an excellent, flexible venue for ideas, networking, and participation), they have been around for decades, with the best-known format articulated by Harrison Owen as "Open Space Technology ". For an excellent description of the unconference format, see this Huffington Post article, An "Unconference" for Online Communities.
 
For our particular event....
 ... participants will be encouraged to propose specific topics during the morning that can be shared during the 10:55 - 11:55 unconference session.  Do you have something - a lesson plan, teaching tool or pedagogical technique -- that you'd like to share with colleagues?  Bring it along and feel free to share it with your colleagues during this session.

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