The first Literacy and Learning in the 21st century conference began this morning, but I wanted to share a bit about yesterday.

I had the pleasure of spending the day with David Warlick yesterday. After having breakfast with some of the great folks at the Department of Education, we wandered over to my school where we visited a couple of classes.

First stop – Amy Audoux and her class who were sharing presentations with a school they have been working with that is about an hour from our city. With a Polycom link for audio/visual and a SMART Bridgit link for sharing screens (presentations and wikis), the students were able to bring the two classes together seamlessly.

Then we were off to Chad Ball’s class, which is one of the “flattest” classrooms that I have seen (disclosure: Chad and I team taught last year so many of the ideas were co-designed between us).

Afterwards we meandered over to see Matt van Raalte‘s Grade 9 Math class, which features a wiki as a central resource and learning center. Check it out…and he doesn’t mind sharing!

After lunch with some of my colleagues, David and I headed off to my uncles farm where we explored the art of making maple sugar. You can read about it at David’s blog.

Needless to day, having a day to capture David’s ideas was an amazing treat. Today is off to a great start, but more on that later.

ps…the pic is (l-r, myself, David and Gary Gallant, our VP and MY mentor!)

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