Getting ready…. January 31, 2008
Posted by jameyo in presentism.Tags: convention, edtech, presentations, tcea
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Next week is my favorite week of the year: the annual Texas Computer Educator’s Association conference in Austin, Texas. My schedule is full and I run around like an idiot, but I’ll never complain.
I’m presenting one workshop and two sessions. The workshop is a completely overhauled “Building Dynamic Websites using Dreamweaver, MySQL and PHP” six-hour session that I’ll be presenting for the fifth time at TCEA. I just presented the same workshop (with the new content) in Florida at the Florida Educational Technology Conference and it seemed to go pretty well. I’ve tweaked the session a bit, based on their feedback. Not sure if its full or not but it’ll be Tuesday from noon to 7 pm.
Update: its full. Its very clear to me that educators are ready to learn how to make advanced web pages and take advanced workshops.
Mardi Gras on Sixth Street is the likely apres-workshop activity!
Both sessions are Wednesday. At 11 am is a 45 minute session I’m doing with my colleague and friend from Ysleta, Ron Livermore, on Web 2.0 sites of note for educators. At 4:00 pm, I’m doing a 90-minute session on “Podcasting: Understanding your hardware options” in one of the Ballrooms. I guess they think a lot of people will be attending! Yay!
That last session is one near-and-dear to my heart. I’m an inveterate radio guy and good sound is important to me. I hope to transfer some of my some of my knowledge about hardware setups and options to educators looking to improve their podcasts. Topics to be covered include microphones (and proper technique), mixers, compression and options for recording on the move and in unusual situations (like Skype or phone).
I hope to see you there! Stop by and say hi!
