First, “It’s great to be home,” and it is hard to reconcile being in Minneapolis earlier this week, with sub-zero wind chills, and today, here in Raleigh, where it’s almost warm. Here are some blooming daffodils from our garden. During my walk with the dog this morning I actually saw some azaleas starting to bloom. Unreal!
Alas, the NCAECT conference starts tomorrow, but at least I get to sleep at home. It will be great to see Will Richardson again, especially to see his keynote address. I’ve seen him present several times, but not the big show!
We’re both doing all day pre-conference workshops tomorrow, and then the general conference runs on Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ll be doing a video games session and podcasting. I’m also going to enjoy a team presentation with Frances Bradburn, the director of the Instructional Technology Division of the State Department of Public Instruction. It will be a session on Web 2.0 and how to manage its use in education.
Will and I will also be doing a session together, a panel discussion, that I suspect (and hope) will be a general conversation among the audience, sort of EduBlogggerCon in nature. With that in mind, and with other events on the horizon, I’ve set up a starter page on the EduBloggerCon wiki site, asking folks (you) to pose starter questions that might be a good springboard for these sorts of group conversations. I’ve included three obvious ones, but encourage you to enhance these questions and add others. I’d like to keep the list as short as possible, so if you can add your question by piggybacking on an existing one, that would be great.
Go here for the EduBloggerCon starter page.
Dave, I posted a question at the wiki. I’ve really reading both Will and your blogs and it even inspired me to begin a blog of my own. I will keep an eye on the wiki and can possibly post some follow-up questions. Thanks for all you are doing.