Some of our numbers this year: 528 attendees from 56 cities, including 64 speakers, 41 volunteers, 38 sessions, 11 organizers. Any other stats you'd like to know? Ask an organizer, we'll update this.
Goodbye, everyone! We will be back next year! Tell us what you liked and didn't like!
Streaming video from some sessions is available at ustream; more will be online soon.
David Ng describes Phylo, a cool trading card game to teach biodiversity. A study showed that children could easily identify and describe a large number of Pokemon characters, yet knew very little about the real world of plants and animals all around them. Inspired by the success of Pokemon, David Ng's group at UBC has successfully leveraged a web community to rapidly develop Phylo, and to draw attention to 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
With a fun combination of wit and wisdom, Monica Hamburg advises the budding blogger on how to develop an authentic online "voice". Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
Agriculture students are passionate about saving the planet, but not so practiced at communicating. In this talk, a panel of four from UBC's Faculty of Land and Food Systems describe how equipping these students with basic journalism skills and podcasting technology is helping them to articulate their enthusiasm. Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
