UberNoggin

Phew! I’m one tuckered out Intellagirl. Educause 08 in Orlando is a non-stop brain-fest. I haven’t met a single person who I coulnd’t spend hours chatting with. The collective IQ of Florida must have gone up by a few points this week.

Yesterday AJ Kelton and I ran a full day pre-conference workshop to help folks understand a selection of Web 2.0 applications and the larger implications of the shift in information consumption and creation. We had about 30 people in our session and everyone of them was engaged, excited, and full of ideas that I hadn’t even thought of. I usually leave an all day session totally drained but yesterday, after 6+ hours of running the session I was buzzy-brained and excited. Thanks to everyone who came. The session was archived in a google presentation that we edited throughout the day and I’ll link to that here in a few days when I’ve cleaned it up a bit. It’s full of brilliant insights from the attendees and well worth a skim.

Today I’m all scheduled up with meetings with even more super smart folks. Breakfast this morning was with a few publishers who are up to a new project that sounds amazing. This afternoon I get to go poke at the Black Bored Board folks about their new tools and tonight I’m having drinks with the great folks from Purdue’s TLT group.

If nothing else, I’ll take away a huge amount of positive mental mojo from my week here. If you’re at Educause leave a comment about what’s inspired you so far. If you’re not, well…don’t be too jealous of all the fun we’re having and take comfort in the fact that it’s really cold here in Florida. Serves us right, huh?

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