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If you're attending NECC (or virtually attending): Flickr If you have a Flickr Account, Join and post your photos to the NECC2007 Group set up by the Yahoo Educators folks. I had to set up another flickr separate from the one I use for school. I had to relearn how to use notes. Each photo you upload has a button that says Add note -- you can see my room at NECC and workdesk -- see the boxes, those are notes. Photos of NECC you'll want to see: I was inspired by Tim Wilson's podcave , although his room could fit about 5 of mine in it! David Warlick got a view of things before they start. David's photo of the announcement for the edublogger conference, seems like yesterday, Steve Hargadon was asking if it was a possibility. The organizers of NECC have been busy stuffing our bags. If you Flickr, just make sure to tag it NECC2007. Blogs Following David Warlick's Hitchhikr for NECC 2007 is a must, particularly if you're attending virtually. (I'm not sure why ...

a TechLearning simulpost I jumped backwards into the river's flotsam. I was immersed in bubbles and foam and water. The roar was summarily silenced when the water covered my eardrums. It was taking me. Down into its silent cacophonous party of mimes where water covered water in an endless race to somewhere else. But I was here, now, and they were too. I stifled the laugh of pure pleasure that would drown me and then - popped up on the other side of the waterfall. "Yahoo!" I yelled as I swam for shore - exhilarated, glistening, and cold - adrenaline and blood racing through my veins in an endless race to somewhere else. This is life. To wish the danger and uncertainty were over would also be to wish the end of life itself for life is about the rocks, rush, and immersion in something bigger than yourself -- and somewhere amidst the bubbles as we humans tumble over each other on our way to somewhere else is the essence of life. "Yahoo!" I yell -- not ready to head ...

I had several things I wanted to write today, but I have way too much packing to do -- heading to the mountains tomorrow and then to NECC. Am a bit down today, didn't get an award I really had my heart set on... perhaps if there hadn't been just two of us it wouldn't have hurt so much, so I guess I'm a bit down at this moment. (Plus I've been paying bills and doing laundry-- how is that for a day!) Getting ready for my life to change... again! But, I do know this -- I'm going to meet some people that have already changed my life and will change it some more. I'm going to bring some great things back to my classroom and I'm going to learn a lot. If you can't go, attend virtually I'm going to read some great analysis by those of you who can't make it but are going to attend virtually, like I did last year. (See my posts, how to attend NECC virtually , Virtual Post #1 Blood on the Cutting Edge , Virtual Post #2 Bernie Dodge remixes Webquests , ...

Packing and getting ready to go off the grid for a week, I ask myself, are all of the School 1.0's out there, getting students ready for Enterprise 2.0. Slideshare is full of these presentations about Enterprise 2.0. This is a must view.

Wow, Steve Hargadon works like a blaze of lightning. Literally at 1:30 yesterday (my time) we were talking about the fact that NECC has created session tags for all of their sessions and the need to aggregate these and have feeds. I'm not really sure if the PR folks knew what we were talking about, but Steve did. Ever the Web 2.0 supporter of educational technology, he took every session for NECC and created a Blog (via Google Blogsearch) and Flickr feed for each of them. (This is why I like to jump on board with what Steve does, he works hard, acts quickly, and has done a great service for the educational community with this one! He also keeps his word.) So, if you're presenting at NECC, make sure that you tag everything!! And if you're going or not going and can't make it to everything you wish to attend, just go to Steve's list and create a special NECC pageflakes or folder in your RSS reader -- and BAM, you're there. (Here's a tip, use the find...

Terry Freedman from the UK always has a great meaning wrapped up in a laugh. His newest article: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, no it is super M'am , talks about the cultural differences in global collaboration. One of my students is submitting an article in Coming of Age about social networking and as the winning Horizon Project manager, is writing an article for Terry's newsletter about global project management. Terry says: " Recently, I've been working with a student called Casey, who is writing a chapter for the forthcoming second edition of "Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web" based on her experience as a project manager on the Horizon Project . Casey comes from the southern states, and so tends to address people as "Sir" or "Ma'am". Unfortunately, we are so not used to that in England that when she addressed me as "Sir" for the first time, I thought she was being sarcastic." He also...

I just love Dr. Shepherd's presentation from the Future of Online Education -- there are some great slides in here! Go to the presentation on slideshare to comment on the slides. Isn't it great that presentations can be shared, discussed, and reshared. Talk about leaving a legacy!