Gettin’ My Con On

So the first stop for me today at TCEA was the Lone Star Edublogger con…and I’m glad I showed up. Not only is it nice to see the people I follow, feed read, and adore…but the set up for this mini-con is cool.

Start with a microphone and lots of echo. Next, get a guy with a great sense of humor counting down the time to the start with cute sayings like “Get Your Con On” (yep, I stole it), and “Experience the Wrath of Con.” Chuckles.

Then open with my bud from White Oak ISD, Scott Floyd, setting up the agenda live using wikispaces. We all decided what we wanted to break out and learn, and those with experience volunteered to lead the discussion. My girl Lori and I will be leading a Moodle discussion at 10:30am. Pretty stinkin’ nifty.

Now in a session about Web 2.0 with Dave Phillips. Really interesting comments…my favorite? Google’s server farm is actually the size of an actual farm! Over 1 million servers. That’s a big cloud, honey.

We’re looking at Google Wave now. I’ve got invites if you need one, just give your email and I’ll give you an invite. Brief side discussion on student email and the use of gmail by districts.

Lori is over in the blogger’s cave learning about eportfolios and the use of WordPress for that purpose with Scott Floyd. It rocks. Obviously I’m a huge WordPress fan….(hello, this is a WordPress blog). Looking forward to getting lots of good tidbits from her when she finishes.

Interesting video (dropped into Google Wave) called the Machine is Using Us…pretty cool.

I’m sold on Google Wave but I need more contacts so we can really use it. I’ll probably invite a bunch of our Learning Technology Campus Liaisons and work on a project or some training in it…force myself to work with it.

Okay …I’m off to get ready for Moodle at 10:30! More tonight!