Learning for Me! Part 2

NECC Conference Musings

Monday evening notes: Today was a good day for learning. Well, outside of the fact that the rooms set aside for the BYOL laptops turned out to be waaayyyyy too small for the numbers who wanted to be in on the classes. There were long lines, people turned away, and thus - some pretty cranky people! Costs a huge amount to travel to a national conference, so being turned away from the learning hurts in more than one way. We need some 21st Century solutions - no one should have to miss out because of the number of seats available. How archaic is that? At the very least, we ought to web-stream and archive every single session, not just the handouts.

My favorite session today was Will Richardson and friends, who presented on live web-streaming. I liked the fact that it was unstructured and informal and extremely informative. It was, "Here it is, this is what you can do, here's the possibilities and the problems, we need to explore this and see where it takes us!" I already have a UStream account, now I'm going to give it a go. Look out, team - we've got another trial to set up!

I checked out the Apple classroom today for a short while. One of their Apple educators is one of my "teacher's pets" for want of a better term. Tina was in the second wave of teachers I mentored in a four-year ongoing project in a local school district. About a year ago, I prodded and pestered her to apply to the Apple Distinguished Educators Program, and of course, she was accepted. What a joy to watch her now!