Side-by-Side Blogvangelism
about blogs to a crowd of close to 150 educators. The title of my
session was “Weblogs: Emerging Technology Tools”. When I arrived at the
High Schools That Work Conference,
I scanned the program. Imagine my delight to see John Fallon’s name on
the program. The title of his session was “Blogging Across the
Curriculum.” John is one of the Ed-Tech Insiders.
It is so much fun to meet face2face with fellow bloggers, especially
when you didn’t even know the other was on the program. I presented at
1:00, he followed at 2:30 and our rooms were side-by-side. John is the
choral director of Walhalla High School in South Carolina. See his Blogs4Teachers site. He is a fine arts teacher who really gets blogging.
I enjoyed his presentation as did others in his packed session. He
talked about his student blogs and his plan to get his principal
blogging this coming school year. He began his session with Will’s blogging video.
I still get a charge each time I see it! Both our audiences were great-
asked good questions and the interest was high. While many in the
audience had varying knowledge levels about bogging, most had little
knowledge about aggregators like Bloglines and not one single person in my group knew about Furl.
I enjoyed this conference but I have to tell you that I still long for
the day when internet connections will be a given at every educator
conference.
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