It takes more than good intentions
Ever caught yourself saying the things that you hate hearing others say? 
How often have I groaned when others have said that “they don’t have time to . . . online.” Oh dear. Looking at my last blog entry back in June I must have been thinking the same at some point, or maybe I’ve just been busy in other online areas instead.
However today I have the luxury of some time. I am attending the ULearn Conference in Auckland, and for once I’m on the attendee side of the counter. I had planned to be at Tony Ryan’s session on “The Rules of Engagement”, but following my round of conferences in the last week, looking at the handout notes I see that I have already attended the same session at the ILT Conference in Invercargill last week. Engaging though it certainly was, with many ideas already put into play at my PreConference workshop on thinking yesterday, I have decided to breathe and blog instead.
Day One of the conference . . . the highlight so far has certainly been Ewan McIntosh’s keynote this morning. Focused on the engaging opportunities that today’s cutting edge technologies afford us, I certainly expected to be engaged, but great to be entertained as well – a great sense of humour and fun was evident. It certainly whet my appetite for our full day session with Ewan in Hamilton next week. I sense that my use of technologies is going to have another uplift. Already I am heading off to set up a Bebo account and to visit some of the websites mentioned to check out more of the work today’s students are producing. Cup stacking – no I think I’ll not try and compete on that one though.
