Unconference experience!
Our “Unconference” on PhotoPeach
Hi 6A,
yesterday we held an “Unconference”. As you suggested beforehand, an unconference is when students decide what is it they want to discuss and share and students gecide which discussion they wish to join. As I was supporting one group, I was unable to visit other discussions. I am keen to know your thoughts and opinions on the following:
1. How was the “unconference” useful for you? You can bullet point your response so that you can give a detailed answer.
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
3. What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity;refining your inquiry; etc.
Ms J
August 15th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
1. I thought it was a really helpful group because we heard about how people get pushed so hard by being bullied they commit suicied which was really interesting
August 15th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Question 1-
- It helped me understand the different types of discrimination.
- I relised how many resourses there are to find out my inquiry.
- I learnt alot of feelings so that helped me with my inquiry.
Question 2-
I think that maybe we could get into smaller groups next time because my group (discrimination) was people talking about different thing that was not relevent to what I really wanted to talk about and find out but otherwise it was really goood.
Question 3-
At this point in time I am fine and up to date but would it be ok if theres nobody to do the exhibition with, would i manage?
Nadine xx
August 15th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
The unconference was useful for me because it helped me finalise what I want to work on because I still wasn’t exactly sure on what I wanted to do. The unconference was also useful because it helped me choose some sub questions I may be interested in inquiring into and finally the unconference was useful because now I have the Google doc which I can look at to help me learn more about bullying.
I think that to make it better next time we should put two groups together that relate to each other to help extend our learning, example bullying and racism, they are connected and we can learn from each other if we join the two groups together.
At this moment in time I need help with finding an organisation because I think if I follow a bullying organisation it can be really useful and I could also donate to help people who are poor and being bullied.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
1. How was the “unconference” useful for you?
1. The unconference was very useful becuase I got to find out who else was interested in what I was interested in and people who were willing to help me in my preffered type of expresion.
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
2. Next time if we hold another conference I think that longer time, slightly smaller groups and teachers doing less monitoring and let us be more free on the way we do our discussion will all help us to have a more efficient and succesful time at the unconference.
3. What do you need help with at this point in time?
3. At this point in time I need help with refining the soecific thing I want to inquire into becuase I think discrimination is very broad.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
1. It helped me understand more and clear out exactly what I’m doing.
-It helped me find out how I can help the inequity and how I can act.
- It also cleared out who I can go with and who I can use to help my final product
2. If we hold another unconference I think we shouldn’t use google docs, because some people were abusing the privelage of using and and using it to write stupid things.
3. I need help with trying to clear out who’s working with who in groups
August 15th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Hi Ms J,
1. The unconfrerence was useful to me beacause I got to see what other people where doing so I could get some ideas how I could get information, or present it e.g.
2. If we have another unconference we could maybe talk about smaller things then we could get into bigger things, and I thought it was really good to hear what everyone is thiking of.
3. I need help with getting information on animal abuse.
Manz
August 15th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
1. How was the “unconference” useful for you? You can bullet point your response so that you can give a detailed answer.
- it was useful for me because I now have a deeper understanding of discrimination because we talked about ways of discrimination
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
2. Next time i think the groups should be smaller and just kids.
3. What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity; refining your inquiry; etc.
3. At this point in time I need help with what to do because i have no idea what im supposed to do now.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
hi ms J,
How was the “unconference” useful for you? You can bullet point your response so that you can give a detailed answer.
• The uncoference was useful for me because I realized that there was actually a person that has the same interests as me.
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
• Try to stop people just walking around the open space
• Don’t have people splitting up in their topic group
3. What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity;refining your inquiry; etc
• Creating questions
Xoxo <3 Simmi
August 15th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
The unconferense was useful because…
1.
•I got to share ideas and listen to other people’s ideas and learn from other people
•It was good because the kids got to talk and speak instead of the teacher
•I got to share all my ideas with other people and get more information from other people
2. My advice would be to be abit more under control because people were shouting and interrupting other people.
3. Partnership issues
August 15th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
1. Fand at more about my inqurey
. I fand sume one to work with
. I hard of good charetes
2 I now a charety and a soup kichen and i now more about hung.
3 How to find the imfor machen and resatsion
August 15th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Hi Ms J,
1. No not really because it didn’t really help me in what I am focusing on. All it helped me in was to find out what others are doing.
2. To make it better next time maybe it can be more interactive and some videos.
3. At this point in time I am trying to develop questions for my inequity.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Hi Ms J,
- It was very useful for me because my group and I Heard what different people had to say and what they wanted to do.
- Some feedback for all of us would be next time well my group was talking on top of eachother so maybe next time we should all split up into different groups that have the same idea and talk about what we want to do and give ideas and imformation.
- My group and I need to develope our questions and find good imformation on the internet and find other ways to find information such as- interviewing, internet ( websites ) ECT.
Gabsy xx
August 15th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
At this point in time I need help finding questions.
Timnah
August 15th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Ms J,
1. How was the “unconference” useful for you? You can bullet point your response so that you can give a detailed answer.
-it helped me understand some things about bullying
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
-give links to website like youtube
3. What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity;refining your inquiry;etc.
-finding a partner to work with
sharonne
August 15th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
1. I got to listen to what other people had to say and decide if i wanted to do it with them.
2. I got to find out about topics i never knew.
3. I got to finalise my idea.
If there was another unconferance day i would’nt change anything i thought it was really well planed and went well.
I will need help with nothing i have it all under control.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
HEY
1. The unconference was not useful for me. The only thing we did the whole time was discusing what we are doing for the exhibition.
2. If we had another conference i want to get to the point and not just go around the table and say what we are doing. I will fix it by maybe people researching or getting videos.
3. I need help with findiing stereotyps in sport and disease.
Hannah xxx
August 15th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Hi Ms J,
1. How was the “unconference” useful for you? You can bullet point your response so that you can give a detailed answer.
* We found out what area we want to look into of disability.
* We spoke to others and found out organisations and ways to get acces to places and people.
* Everyone had a turn to speak.
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
Maybe we could tell eachother different organisations and acceses but maybe in more detail.
3. What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity;refining your inquiry; etc.
My group is pretty on tract with everything but maybe we could start getting together our interviews with our contacts.
Tayla
August 15th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Hi,
1. The unconference was useful to me because it helped me find out who is interested in the same/simular things as me.
2. If it was another unconference the advice that I would have for it would be instead of just sharing videos and websites, we could have shown the videos and website, so we can help each other understand the videos and explain the point of the website.
3. At the moment I need help with creating questions because I have already worked out my topic and I have zoomed in on it, but I still need help creating the questions.
Monique!!:)
August 15th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
1. The unconference was useful for me because i got to see what other people who were doing disabilities to give me more ideas and i got to share what i am doing to give others ideas.
2. If we hold another unconference i think we should split up into smaller groups of people who are intrested in the exactly the same things as the other people in the group.
3. At this point in time i need help with developing questions.
Liron
August 15th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Hi Ms J,
1.How was the “unconference” useful for you?
Well the unconference was very useful because I heard other peoples questions and what they and interested in and it made me think do I want to do that or do that but I sticked with what I already was thinking of was FAMILY SUPPORT.
2. If we hold another unconference, what advice/ feedback do you have for us so that it can be an even better experience next time?
To maybe have a page or some information you are interested in or some questions you have in your mind.
3.What do you need help with at this point in time? E.G. developing questions; choosing an inequity; refining your inquiry; etc.
Well we need a few ideas for maybe talking to someone who has experienced having a disabled child or maybe how the family feels and negative times having a disabled child or siblings maybe getting some information.
XX Milla
August 15th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
1. I thought it was a really helpful group becausewe heard about how people get pushed to much by being bullied the commit suicid and people after that really feel bad but its to late.
2. I think if we have another unconference we should have more time to think about what we are going to say about what we can do about bullying.
3. I need more help with how I am going to do my project
August 15th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Hi Ms J,
1. Wasnt here
2. Wasnt here
3. I need help with researching Animal Abuse like
-In the house.
-When people abuse their purchased pets physically and mentally.
-Stray Animals
Love,
Joelle xx
August 15th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Hi Ms J,
1.I didn`t find it that useful because people were giving the same questions that I had already thought of. But I think if we did it again we could improve it.
2.
I think we should watch some videos
Have some one come in and talk to us about their problems of being bullied or solving them
3. I need help choosing the big questions that I can learn a lot from.
Haley