Oh, What a Wonderful Day in San Jose
I’m sitting at San Jose International Airport waiting to go home to Phoenix after a full day at San Jose State University. The director of their Center for Faculty Development asked me to keynote (present a one hour presentation and a one hour workshop) for their Spring Forum (see the program attachment below). Thanks “super-secret” nmc folks for suggesting me! Ultimately, I had a blast and it feels like most of the participants had a good time and will be playing with a few new technologies this summer (especially Diigo and MindMeister).
I’m a little tired, I was up polishing (oh, you know me, blatantly finishing) my presentation early this morning (participants commented on the time/date stamp of some of the work...damn social bookmarking...PP doesn’t show your last time/date stamp during the presentation!). Since I’m too tired to be doing “real” work (you know all the grading I’m behind on), I figured I’d do a little reflection of what went down.
I was definitely 100% prepared for the first “presentation.” By the time I started the program was 10-15 minutes behind and so I got cut off a little at the end (which means I actually was close to planning correctly, I’ve almost always got too much stuff). I presented the full first talk from Glogster.
I’m going to have to get one of those airpads to present from since I insist on presenting from stuff that does not run from a remote slide advancer and I had to direct someone to click links for me (the speaker stand was at the side of the room). We spent a chunk of time on the 21st Century Skills/Literacies mindmap (see below) I made and then rushed through the Diigo List. During the workshop hour, we spent most of the time getting people up and running with a Diigo account and then I quickly showed some examples of using Wikis and MindMaps.
I started a new workshop wiki resource for the workshop; however, didn’t get much of it up and running. I know some more will fill out for the MCLI pre-conference workshops week after next and it will be fully fleshed out in time for Educause next October. I have to admit; however, I’m proud of the banner art!
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