I have returned from Philadelphia. It was my first time visiting the East coast. I stayed at the beautiful Wyndham Hotel on the campus of Bryn Mawr. On February 22 I gave three lectures at Haverford College: Lessons Learned, Bliking in a Third World Country and one on building an educational game in Quake III. The last one was actually Marie Duncan's lecture and I just added my 2 cents worth. Laura Blankenship and Jean-Claude Bradley sponsored the conference. The following day I spent with Laura meeting faculty and students at Bryn Mawr and visiting her technology department. An added plus was meeting her husband, Doug Blank, and seeing his robots and talking about Emerging Pedagogy as well as a business model he wrote about opensource education. The intellectual atmosphere was energizing. We are of the same mind and community and yet we have never met before. Quite a testament to the world of technology today.
I do have some wonderful pictures of Bryn Mawr but I haven't downloaded them yet. And because I live in two worlds, far apart from each other, I am always leaving something at the wrong place at the wrong time. Jean-Claude and I produced another blog with some of the lectures from this conference. You can find it at http://phillyedcast.blogspot.com He did more work than me. I came home from Philly with bad bugs that invaded my body and sapped my strength.
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