For those that have my RSS feed you saw the 1 sentence article that was posted on Friday. It was very enigmatic in and of itself. One of my fellow DEN members and good friend Diana from down in the Miami area talked me into presenting this past Thursday and Friday for the FACCS (Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools) Annual Conference. Make no mistake about it, this is not a technology conference. But a chance to work and talk with teachers, public or private, is always a great thing.

Unlike for FAME from last week, I went ahead an created a wiki on wikispaces.com to be the launching pad for my presentations. I remember talking with Jennifer Wagner back at NECC prior to her presentation with the WOW 2.0 Ladies, and lamenting on the thought that we if we are expected to have the people who come and listen to us in conference sessions, or our teachers we work with on a daily basis, then we need to embrace the technologies and use them in our presentations. With that in mind, I created the ‘official’ Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages wiki.

Thursday afternoon’s session was titled Online Tools for Busy Teachers. The presentation was originally supposed to be given by my friend Diana, who then asked me to give it instead since the 15 or so that I had envisioned she’d never heard of. The funny part of the presentation came after the fact when we (myself, Diana and Debbie B.) were discussing how they thought it went. One of them mentioned it could have been better if the websites were shown during the presentation instead of just the wiki. Not even thinking about it, and I guess this was just a matter of me being in a ‘zone’ I don’t know. But somewhere in there I forgot to mention to Diana to go ahead and click on the links to share the webpages with the attendees. Live and learn, as with everything in life.

Friday’s two sessions went equally as spectacular in my estimation. The first AM session was “The Basics of Audacity”. I’m not a big fan of ‘how to’ sessions at conferences. So I went with the approach for the both of these sessions that I was going to give a hybrid ‘how to’ session where I did a portion of how to and a portion of thoughts on integration into the classroom. The second session was of the morning was on blogging as a reflective tool for educators. I spent most of the session discussing the importance of adding blogging as a component to reflective practice. I did show how easy it was to create a blog using the edublogs.org website.

I do know that they recorded the sessions, so I’m hoping I can get my hands on the audio file. Would love to get the files for all three and add them up as a podcast somewhere.  More on that later though I’m sure

Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…

Tom.