Time has crept up on me quite quickly. As I am sitting here multitasking (reading edublogs and watching the Leafs – Sens hockey game with my son) on a Saturday evening, I just realized that it’s only 11 days until our local learning landscape gets rocked.

Our Dept of Education is hosting a two day ed tech conference, with over 150 teachers and administrators gathering to share ideas and jewels from their classrooms. Some are even brining in their students! I have been involved in this from the beginning and am excited about the possibilities.

While sharing with each other is great, we are all excited about hearing from the master himself – David Warlick. I have heard David speak before, and I credit much of my growth in the past two years to his ideas, but as I read David’s 2 cents worth blog and his recent travels from Carolina to California and Shanghai to New Zealand I am looking forward to having my colleagues share his vision and message as well.

I get excited when I talk about technology and change.  David was invited mainly on my recommendation, and the fact that people have seen the changes in my vision for our classrooms that have been rooted in a single personal encounter and a subsequent and on-going e-counter with David and his ideas.  I guess they like what they see.

To use a hockey analogy, the ultimate for a young hockey player would be to have Wayne Gretzky come to your practice.  Well, the ultimate for a novice teacher in a tech-rich environment is David Warlick.  This is like having “The Great One” of ed-tech pay our practice a visit.

11 days and counting.

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