A documentary team of middle and high school youth using mostly camcorders, iPods, iPads, and smart phones to blog their view of the conference was an experiment. None of the kids had experience with using social media professionally. 

I can say with no hesitation the experiment was a success. As intended:

• The conference attendees and folks not able to attend the conference found value in the blog posts. Evidence of such can be found in tweets and the comments of the blog posts.
• The students gained invaluable experience blogging with video, photo and text. The students also learned how to work in a team with deadlines. Evidence of such can be found in the blogs.

As Gen explained in her post, the teachers working with the ShinyYouth were amazing. I must say the ShinyDoor staff were also amazing. Dan led the ShinyYouth project. Bart led one of the teams and helped plan the ShinyYouth project. Gen edited blog posts for grammar and helped out as needed. Darien, the ShinyDoor Intern, did anything and everything. All did a fabulous job with the kids and keeping the project organized. 

No doubt in my mind we would like to conduct this experiment again. We'll certainly change it up and make some improvements. But I suppose that is what one calls an experiment.