EARCOS – A Great Experience
Back in Hong Kong after the EARCOS 09 conference in Malaysia. I return feeling refreshed and inspired to start teaching again, though I wish that I could take a day to digest all of the information I’ve taken in.
A few quick highlights:
- UBD and Grading with the Powells was an amazing session, perhaps the high light of the conference.
- I went to Dr. Josephine Kim’s session for something different, but it turned out to one of the greatest presentations of the conference.
- I met and talked with several bloggers I’ve followed for months: Kim Cofino, Jeff Utecht, and Keri Lee Beasely.
- Web tools including delicious, Twitter, and Tinychat all enhanced this presentation and allowed me to connect with people that I might otherwise have been too shy to talk to.
- I spent the conference reading Into the Wild (and listening to Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack for the film), which was a surprisingly motivating counter point to the presentations.
- Four of the teachers from my school ran in the charity race. What an amazing collection of people we have at our school!
It’s my intention to blog my notes of each of the presentations that I took in during the next week.
Stay tuned.
