Hintonblogger

Well I'm back at NECC and looking forward to another great learning and networking experience. I think what the addition of the Hot Topic Lounges this year (including the blogger's cafe that I'm writing this from) were great ideas. I'm looking forward to heading over to the Second Life area later this morning to see if I can learn how to "fly" better, edit my avatar, and, in general, become better acquainted with moving around and interacting there.

I'm presenting in the Open-Source Lab on Drupal, as well as presenting a session in there about Moodle, both of which are on Wednesday. I was up late last night trying to finalize my schedule and am excited about today's sessions I'll be attending.

My primary goals for this year's conference is to identify areas of change in the way I service my schools, teachers, and students in integrating technology. The biggest challenge for me at NECC, where this is a plethora of great ideas and conversations, is to focus things down to implementable items (you can't do everything). So that will be part of my goal as I blog NECC, to try and narrow the scope of the various sessions to distill 3 or less actionable items.

My areas of concentration are:

• Effective School-wide Integration Practices/Programs
• Engaging Professional Development Strategies
• 1:1 Tips and Strategies