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EARCOS Admin Tech Cohort – Reflection

November 6, 2009
EARCOS Admin Tech Cohort – Reflection

0Back at work and reflecting on the tech cohort that I tried to run at the EARCOS Admin Conference. I talked about it here and what my hopes were for the group. It’s the first time I’ve tried to embedd a cohort in a traditional conference model and to be honest I had very...
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Changing Conference Models

October 27, 2009
Changing Conference Models

0In a weeks time I’ll be in Manila, Philippines to attend the EARCSO Administrators Conference. This will be the third year I’ve presented at the conference…guess it a good thing they invite me back every year. This year though I’m trying something different. With the permission of the head of EARCOS. I asked...
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Connecting People or Connecting Content

March 25, 2009
Connecting People or Connecting Content

0aaahhhhh……I sit here in the open air lounge of the Magellan Resort, a soft breeze is blowing off the ocean as I over look the pool below and out across the bay to three islands. It’s gonna be a wonderful sunset tonight. I’m telling you overseas conferences are really hard….I mean it. I’m...
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RSS is about content, Twitter is about people

March 23, 2009
RSS is about content, Twitter is about people

0I leave tomorrow for the EARCOS Teachers Conference (Twitter hash and web tag #ETC09) where I’ll be giving four presentations. My first one is on Networks and Communities and although my Twitter Network has pointed out to me this is not a new presentation for myself…I do feel like there is something different. I’ve pushing...
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Preparing for November

October 21, 2008
Preparing for November

0My wife left early this morning for Hawaii. I know…completely lost on her. From Bangkok to Hawaii….. She’s off to visit a friend, one of the benefits of taking a year off from working and having frequent flier miles to spend. So that leaves me with a week of no school and time to myself to...
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One small step for EARCOS

August 13, 2008
One small step for EARCOS

0I had two great days in Manila spending time with the EARCOS team looking at how technology and the web can help to streamline some of their internal practices and also looked at how EARCOS can use technology at both it’s Administrator and Teacher conferences to help connect participants. Up until now, the team at...
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Morning in Manila

August 10, 2008
Morning in Manila

0I woke up this morning to find myself in Manila. You know, one of those you roll over open your eyes and can’t remember where you are mornings. I’m just getting use to waking up in our new home in Bangkok and I’m off to Manila to do some consulting work with EARCOS (East...
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EARCOS Teachers Conference – All over but the flight

March 29, 2008
EARCOS Teachers Conference – All over but the flight

0I have a lot of random thoughts about the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference this year….so if these seem like disconnected ideas/ramblings/thoughts….it’s because they are. The first morning we were here, I picked up the Newspaper that was slipped under our door and flipped through it real quick. The front page had the Prime Minister of Malaysia...
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