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| Randy Rogers took this picture yesterday and included it in his blog post about the presentation. |
I’m at the TCEA conference in Austin Texas, and have been scanning through the stack of blogs that have already been written, including a great account of my presentation yesterday in a Texas-sized room. It was about as sparsely populated as much of Texas, but I was actually very pleased at the turnout, considering that the session didn’t make the program (arranged at the last minute), the time of day, and the fact that the conference really hasn’t gotten underway yet.
It was a very pleasant surprise to see Will Richardson among the throngs of educators who came up after the talk (all five or six of them). Richardson will be presenting in the same hall today, at 2:15, Connective Writing. He walked out with me and we talked about School 2.0 for a bit — the subject of my next blog.
If you’re not at the conference, follow the happenings at Hitchhikr — or if you are here, catch what you missed through your colleague’s blogs.
Oh Yeah! Someone came up to me, yesterday, and thanked me for my Technorati Tag Generator. I didn’t know anyone was using that. Just go to Landmarks for Schools and click Blog Tag Generator at the right to generate tag code to insert in your blog.
Thanks for sharing so much great information, David. That session and the luncheon had a big impact on myself and several co-workers. We are still newbies at all that Web 2.0 has to offer, and we are trying to get the ball rolling. Your presentations will, undoubtedly, give us some great momentum!
Hi, David, thanks for sharing your views on contemporary literacy yesterday at the TCEA conference in Austin.
I had a great conversation with my brother last night after your session. I shared with him the example of seismic events and the amount of numbers and data that our students will need to be able to manipulate and understand and what it means to be literate with numbers.
He works in a lab with genetics research and projects dealing with the genome and it was amazing how correct you are about what it will mean to be able to use numbers. Some research projects will require millions of data points and that is becoming more and more of a challenge of how to manage and make sense of HUGE amounts of data.
Thank you David for sparking a great conversation!
David,
I hope you are joking about your tag generator in hitchhikr. I use it with every blog post and love saving the time to write the code myself. Thanks!
Laura B. Fogle