Here at NECC!
Since Edublogs is still down, Not So Distant Future will be running from this site until things improve. I made it to Atlanta for NECC last night, rode the subway to the hotel, and was escorted here by a nice homeless gentleman.
I missed the edubloggercon which was the meet-up of bloggers from all over the country, :( but you can read the wikis from some of the sessions.
I’m hoping that there will be a way to have some followup meetings during the conference—there is a room here called Bloggers Cafe, which is set up for meetings with a white board, and they’ve set up an email system so we can email people that we’ll be there and invite them to get together. So I’m hoping to try that out.
I had a good talk with the folks I stayed with, Janice Friesen, who writes the blog Texas Malahani and Barbara Bray, who owns E-Coach, which is a content management system that looks interesting.
We visited about the conference yesterday. Barbara attended the Digital Equity pre-conference, which sounded very interesting, and we were discussing the fact that there aren’t very many educational bloggers of color. And then Janice talked some about the edublogger con format as well, and a few of the bloggers that she met.
We also discussed the books How to Think like Leonardo de Vinci and Whole New Mind, and how schools seem to be really missing those right brained male students, particularly.
Today there is an opening session and then an opening gala at the Georgia Aquarium, which should be great! I made a badge using Flickr’s FD Flickr toys site, to identify myself and just for some geeky fun! But I discovered at the TLA conference, that you end up sitting in rooms with bloggers you email with, and don’t even realize it, because you don’t know what people look like, so I thought a badge would help avoid that!
I’ll be posting more from the conference, either here or on my futura.edublogs.org site. Edublogs has been changing servers and had some major problems, which unfortunately happened right before this conference. So I’ll use this site as my alternate home in the meantime!
If you have comments or want to meet up during the conference, email me at whslibrarian@eanes.k12.tx.us, or use twitter (my name there is technolibrary) and I’ll get back to you! For teachers tuning in from school, twitter is a site that allows people to text your phone or email a short update as to where they’ll be or where they want to meet, so I’m trying it out!
I’ll have more updates and photos later on. I can’t wait to get started!
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