Last week I had the pleasure of spending a whole day at the FETC conference in Orlando. I was supposed to go on Tuesday, but owing to the fact that I am an idiot who can't read a schedule, I thought I was supposed to show up on Thursday. On Wednesday night, I carefully checked my map and planned my itinerary-and just as I went to print out the info. so that I could appear to be informed about the speaker that I was supposed to preside for, I saw "Tuesday" - Say What?? After a panicky hour of thought, I finally decided to come clean, show up anyway, apologize profusely, and beg for clemency.
I arrived at about 7:30 and made my way to the HQ room. Gil Caudill greeted me, and I was so nervous I couldn't even remember the name of the university, never mind the class! But he was extremely nice to me, and bustled around finding a spot for me. He put me in the seminar about The Orange Grove Repository Project from 12 to 3. Since that was all he could find, he told me to go and enjoy myself at whatever other seminars were available. Wow!
My first stop was Kathy Schrock. She was an Eye-opening Keynote Speaker whom I knew from her terrific site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. She mostly spoke about 2nd Life, where she has purchased a site that 4 other school districts in her home area of Cape Cod, MA, share. She invited the audience to visit her island, Lighthouse Learning, and see what education of the future might look like, but so far, I have not been able to find it. (I found references to it, but not the actual island. I don't have much experience with Second Life, and I'm afraid that making contact with anyone there to get help will mean I will be stuck for hours while they try to get me from birth to adulthood in their world. Frankly, it all looks kinda boring, too.) Kathy Schrock, however is far from boring, and I thoroughly enjoyed her presentation. I did join her SL group, K-12 Educators, so hopefully I will learn more about SL that way.
I attended 3 seminars in all, scoped out the exhibition hall, and played the great math game Dimension M by Tabula Digita. I will write about those experiences in my next post.
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Glad you liked the presentation, we would not make you stay if you did not want to, and Second Life is only non-boring if others are there!
Here is the SLURL (just click on the URL) and your client will open and you will be teleported to the sim. Remember to save a landmark once you get there!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lighthouse%20Learning%20Island/6/134/24
Kathy
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