I just learned that my session proposal for Educon 2.1 has now been scheduled, 2:30 to 4:00 on Sunday (Jan 25). I didn’t even know for sure that I would be able to attend until yesterday, when Brenda worked out my transportation. I’ll be at the TRLD conference in San Francisco until mid-day on Saturday. She has me flying across that evening, where I spend the remaining hours in a hotel in downtown Philadelphia. Then, bright and early to educon on Sunday. She also arranged a train trip for the next day to Western Virginia for the Virginia Association of Independent Schools Heads of Schools Conference in Hot Springs.
I’m more than a little disappointed at what I’ll miss while I am facilitating my session, not the mention by missing the first two days of the conference. How could you not be disappointed at missing anything at Educon. I probably shouldn’t have proposed anything at all, but so rarely do you get a chance to do a purely unconference session. Still, the rooms will be a buzz with bleed-throughs from the previous days, and it will all be thouroghly blogged.
There are so many ways to see how exceptional this conference will be. But perhaps the most interesting way is to scan through the list of attendees. Those who have listed themselves on the wiki will be coming from 18 states, two provinces of Canada, and Victoria, Australia. He’ll certainly win a prize.
The image to the left is a collage of photos taken at last year’s Educon and uploaded by attendees to Flickr. You can see other photos and blog entries from last year’s event and the upcoming Educon 2.1 at the conference Hitchhikr page.
Hope to see you at the Science Leadership Academy, 23-25 January. I’ll be there on the 25th.
Is that an Ubuntu screen shot? Did I miss a transition somewhere? Are you a Linux guy now?
I found myself trying to dig out of the same rut I was in last year – too expensive, too much to do here, too much time out of my office blah, blah, blah…
This is the new 2009 me. Instead of trying to fit Educon in, I decided I really wanted to go and put it at the top of the list. I’m booked! Now I just have to make the other stuff work (or not). Sometimes you really need to go for the synchronous conversations – see you there!
Diane
Wow – this does look like a conference I’d like to attend. The sessions look good and the attendee list is full of luminaries. I hope there will be a really active backchannel so I can participate from Massachusetts.
Jason, it looks like a Firefox window under GNOME to me…