Multi-faceted Refractions

I have been asked by Julene Reed to sit on a panel about lessons learned. Here are my notes

Yesterday, not wanting my computer to get in the way of meeting old and new friends at the Laptop Institute, I decided to tweet it out using my good old “dumb’ phone as my input device. As far as keynotes go, this one did not rate in the upper half of those that I have seen at the variety of conferences that I have attended. At the time, I was finding it hard to pay attention to the message. It was not compelling or sticky, definately not the standard that Will Richardson and Ian Jukes set at last year’s conference.

But upon reviewing the message and reading the replies of those of you who are in my network, I realized that there were some nuggets which one could find in the message yesterday. When you strip away the presentation style and the supplimental PowerPoint, there were some points and questions that I do feel need reflection.

I will continue to let the ideas perculate and report later on what those questions are and also my feelings on them in the next few days. Today, I sit ready to learn, to meet colleagues new and old, who will help me find success on the goals set forth for this year. Oh, yeah, I have failed to communicate those as well. Guess I have a lot of writing to do and ideas to share.