My first unconference but definitely not my last! I presented one and a half times on Lego robotics (the half being a shared preso with Peter Randall of Chestnut Hill Academy, who talked about the upper school robotics experience). But the extremely cool thing was that if felt very much like the conference equivalent of open source software: collaborative, creative, helpful, and slightly subversive.
The other cool thing is that it wasn't all techies, but passionate teachers of all stripes. Naturally, since they were committed, passionate teachers, they were open to using new ideas, and so were tech-friendly. It was SUCH a pleasure to be with people who obviously love teaching and were happy to share ideas. I also loved the constantly updated website, the twitter backchannel (1500 tweets in one day!), and the Flickr stream. Now THAT'S how a conference should run!
See ya next year.
