So hard to say goodbye

Farewells are often bittersweet. Such is the case as I leave the school that I spent the last seven years working at. As sad as I am over leaving, I am even more exited to return to the classroom at my new school. This is my final podcast from my office, the place where I’ve recorded the vast majority of my podcasts.

In this podcast, I also continue the discussion about the nature of conferences a bit. The conversation has been picked up by so many other people, and I include a few quotes from some other people. I’ll be spending the next week in Boston at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities conference. Don’t worry John, you can definitely expect a slew of blogging from there. If you want to keep up with it, photos and posts are going to be tagged with BLC05. You can subscribe to the Technorati feed here.

Don’t forget to stop by PodcastAwards.com and to throw me a vote in the education category. Enjoy the show!

Direct link to the podcast

Show notes:
Exactly 2 Cents: Dave’s post about conferences. Be sure to read through the comments.
The Educational Mac: Kelly Dumont’s podcast. Definitely worth a roster spot in your podcatcher of choice.
Pederson Designs: John has been chiming in on the conference conversation. Thinks we should create our own conference. Why not?
Building Learning Communities: Alan Novembers conference in Boston. Another virtual conference to follow from home!
David Jakes: Organizing the Emerging Technologies workshop next week in Chicago. Does blog too often, but always has something interesting to say when he does.
Podcast Awards.com: Rock the vote! Vote for Teach42 or Connect Learning in the Education category!
Podcast Alley: You can also vote for me here, if you want to support the show.

Next show is my 42nd, expect big things!

3 Comments

Brett Moller
7/17/2005

Just finished listening to the podcast. Great show there with some interesting thoughts. Added some thoughts on conferences to Dave’s blog. There was some good thinking here that I beleive a few conference comittees need to listen to. I just attended a conference where every session was taped on audio and DVD. The costs were fairly cheap to buy the sessions. CD audio was $10 a session and DVD was $15 a session. I am sure all the money made from the sale of cd and dvd was to cover the cost of taping the sessions. It really gives a professional swing to the conference and it also attracts people to the conference the following year as copies get thrown around amongst peer groups and colleagues. Why can’t conferences as large as NECC have something like this?

Well done on the show once again.

Eric Langhorst
7/18/2005

Great show Dave. I listened to it while I ironed some clothes for the forum I’m attending here in Seattle. Isn’t technology amazing?! I agree about it not feeling over until everything is off the walls of your classroom. I was at the first school where I taught for 5 years and when I finally got done taking everything out of my classroom it hit me that it was really over.

Thanks for your help on my podcast. I saw your comments two days ago. I now have three podcasts up on the site. I am currently in Redmond, Washington attending a Microsoft Innovative Teacher forum with teachers from all over the world. I taped and published a podcast last night from my hotel room and hope to have a lot more in the next couple of days. I hope to interview some of the other teachers attending the forum.

Good luck with your new position and I can’t wait to hear more about the podcast studio. What do you call it? A “podudio”? That will be awesome.

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