Gold Coast- yeah!
I met Peter Kent back last year at the Sitech conference in
Hamilton, way back before I could even blog about it. He was the key note speaker, a Deputy Principal in
Melbourne, Australia. If you want to know what went down at that particular conference you’ll have to check the archives on my friend Chrissy’s blog, December 06 will be the date you have to check.
Anyway, that’s where I met Peter. He took particular interest in my skypetalkandwrite presentation, back when it consisted of a powerpoint, some smoke and mirrors. As a result of that we began a dialogue to start Skyping trans-Tasman. Which incidently is yet to begin. Me and my tangents, get on with it Simon.
The long and short of it is that he very kindly put my name forward to participate in the IWB conference on the Gold Coast. I had a good Skype with the organiser a gentleman by the name of Malcolm Lee. And I’m going. I need to get some more details, and there is still a lot to organise but he invited me to attend, and of course with it being the Gold Coast and all I had to think about it for a very long time!
So, thank you Malcolm, and thank you Peter for the introduction. And those of you who are possibly reading this because of the link on my site, Welcome to the conversation. Please comment and let me know who you are, where your from and I can pretend I’ve known you all my life when we arrive in August. You you blog about talk&write tag it skypetalkandwrite and it’ll get fed to the wikispace www.skypetalkandwrite.wikispace.com
I’m very excited about this trip, not least because it gives me an opportunity to expand my thinking about skypetalkandwrite and how it fits into the curriculum of a digial classroom. Plus how does that then assist a school looking at School 2.0.
The current list of people associated with the wiki is so far quite short, but given the opportunity to expand the children’s experiences beyond
New Zealand I hope will encourage others to give serious consideration to the use of Skype technologies in the classroom setting.
