My Brain Hurts

Now that it has come to an end IT is just beginning as we try to sift through the mountain of new knowledge and ideas for transforming learning.

The ideas were easy to come by in an environment like this bit now the hard work of building those ideas into working classroom practice begins. The theme words for this year were  Convene  Connect  Transform  and that theme was certainly evident throughout the conference. Global collaboration was given a large presence as were web 2.0 tools. If there was one message to take back it would have to be to capture and engage our students by moving education beyond the classroom walls. eTools for iLearners in a digital environment.

The exhibition hall was amazingly large making it very difficult to get around in between sessions. It was good opportunity to get comprehensive information about a great variety of products. The inventive presentation awards go to the Wii golf game, the mini bowling alley and the bucking bull – yes a full size bucking bull that you were challenged to ride!

Organising a conference for 20 000 people must be a difficult task, one which was handled superbly. I would thoroughly recommend this conference to any educator.

NECC 2009 will be held in Washington DC June 28 – July 1

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