conference over

February23

I’ve spent the last 3 days at the learning@school conference in Rotorua. This has been the best conference yet – mainly because 7 of us went from school and we’ve continued the talk over dinner and while travelling.

I’m excited by new possibilities that have been presented to me. I always thing a con is successful if you come away with something new that you can do immediately – and I’ve done that, but I’ve also come away with professional tools which I think is even more exciting (and stuff that I can use for personal blogs/web pages as well!)

The most exciting presentations I went to were two by David Warlick – The Art and Technique of Wikis and The Magic of the New Web:RSS. I wasn’t booked in to either of these but after his keynote – Telling the New Story – I knew I needed to be in these sessions.

I happen to be sitting near Teaching Sagittarian on both days and was fascinated to see her blogging the second session as it was in progress – who needs paper notes – actually who needs notes at all when the presenter provides their notes online in a wiki?

by dragonsinger posted under David Warlick, learningatschool | 6 Comments »
6 Comments to

“conference over”

  1. February 23rd, 2007 at 6:47 pm       teachingsagittarian Says:

    I too thought that David Warlick’s presentations were the most exciting. It was excellent being able to blog in real time, it helped consolidate what I’d learnt – now all I need to do is get a battery that will last at least 2hours!
  2. February 24th, 2007 at 2:07 pm       David Warlick Says:

    That is such a typical picture of me — not able to hear ;-)

    I am so happy that you are going back to your home with new ideas and new skills, and hopefully some new energy. It’s why I love conferences so much! It’s about the conversations and the energy.

    Great luck to you!

    – dave –
  3. February 24th, 2007 at 3:12 pm       dragonsinger Says:

    David – if you visited my classroom you’d see me doing the ear thing – that’s why i do so much communicating via the web – i don’t have to be able to hear in order to be able to communicate
  4. February 24th, 2007 at 4:46 pm       allanahk Says:

    Very cool. I worked on the technorati thing till one in the morning and got it sussed.

    That link in David’s wiki was just waht was needed.
  5. February 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm       dragonsinger Says:

    oh – i’m glad the photo i took came out ok too by the way ….
  6. February 25th, 2007 at 7:14 pm       Simon Says:

    That’s Her, that’s my mate Chrissy. She’s such a groupie.
    Link me. http://www.educatingthedragon.edublogs.org
    and let’s get the NZ conversation humming

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