Just returned from the WEMTA conference in Milwaukee. WOW. I actually had the awesome opportunity to actually meet two people who I have been following in Twitter. I felt like I was renewing a friendship with high school friends. But yet I had never met these fine folks in person prior to this event. I hope someone is doing some research on the effects of micro social networking. I keep on telling folks it has changed my life and they look at me a bit strangely - but it has. I have found myself crying over the death on a Twitter colleague who was killed in the war - but yet I had never met him face to face. I have also celebrated (silently) with my Twitter friends over a successful workshop or lesson completed with students.
Web 2.o and Moodle were definitely HOT topics at the conference. I cannot believe how many new followers in Twitter I have accumulated since the conference. It was also a really interesting to have individuals Twittering from live sectionals. This provided us with the ability to stay somewhat in touch with what was happening in other sectionals. Interesting experience.
Keynotes were interesting - one challenged us to get out of our comfort zone and attend a sectional we never would have considered attending. I think that we all could benefit from this concept.
New tool for this blog - Doodle
Doodle is a Web-based service for finding suitable dates for group events (e.g., an appointment, a conference call, a family reunion, IEP meeting, child study.). Doodle is particularly useful to people who do not use a common calendar or groupware system.
In addition to scheduling events, Doodle also supports polls in general. That is, groups can also conveniently decide on options other than dates: the movie for the next movie night, the logo of the new Web site, the restaurant for the Christmas dinner, etc.
No registration is required.
Go ahead and give it a try!
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