Nov

23

MB Edubloggercon

Filed Under Musings 

Last night I went to the first ever MB Edubloggercon, held at the Academy Bar and Eatery here in Winnipeg. As far as is known, this was the first gathering of Manitoba educational bloggers (and others) in a face-to-face setting where people could just hang out and talk. About 60 of us were there in person, with as many as two dozen more “attending” via a webcast of some of the proceedings on UStream.com.

Despite not exactly being a social butterfly, I talked with several people who gave me some really cool ideas about using Web 2.0 tools in the class, and even got an e-mail address of a teacher who will be doing the same computer course as me next term. (The two of us are both a little confused as to what exactly we’ll do with the course, so a little conferring with each other should help.)

It is interesting to me that you had a room full of computer geeks used to dealing with other via e-mail, Skype, and other similar technologies. Yet here we were in person, relating to each in a “new” way; face-to-face. No matter how much we get used to dealing with each via digital technologies, there’s just no real substitute for personal contact.

The Edubloggercon, organized by ManACE, was a great evening that put faces to people that I’d normally only ever meet virtually.

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