Educating the Dragon

Learning@Schools09 was a real high for me. I enjoyed my time in the Bloggers’ cafe enormously. Not only did I get to spend time with some old friends – not saying yous fel las are old – but I really enjoyed the new conversations I’ve been having. I did a little totting up of my new contacts from around the country (44) in all. And I’m truly hoping for an opportunity to see each one of them in the next 12 months, no promises. Am heading to Taupo tomorrow for Tuesday night so get in touch if I’m near you. Here is the quick pic from the bloggers cafe – If anyone can tell me how to edit the pic in Flickr to add those cool “Who are you” boxes now would be a good time to educate the dragon. Just click the picture for the details… Thanks Jane and Allanah!

Sitting in the Bloggers’Cafe with Andrew Salisbury from St Joseph’s School in Feilding. Just wanted to share the conversation I had with him about his classroom practise. This was all as a result of a conversation about blogging and podcasts and what would he could do with ICT now that he feels he has some wriggle room with his small, more familiar class of Year 5s Have a listen here. By the way, the intro music is Andrew’s.

It’s always good to be meeting new people and today is no exception. I have spent a lovely few minutes showing Janet how to write her guest blog . Then again at the end of the day Lesley kindly shared a few words too. Included in my time at the cafe I have introduced a number of people to twitter and swept in with connectivity to the wireless. I love this sharing experience. Don’t forget drinks at ‘The Shed’ tonight guys too. See you all their.

Sadly I will not be able to attend a breakfast meeting this year. The bloggers cafe will be the place to meet, bright and early. Alternatively, on the Wednesday night there is a ‘discount tab’ for those who visit the Sitech stand and present their card that looks like the picture below. So come along and say hi. Perhaps the only way that we’ll recognise one another is if we wear our black square avatar masks!