The TWAIN blog

I am in the process of moving my blog over to my Me/Mac account. I learned that I can’t take it all with me. I am losing all the conversations. All the comments have to stay behind. There isn’t an easy process in pulling the XML from Wordpress and Importing to iWeb (in fact, there is no process). So I copied and pasted my favorites, exported a file for keeping of my blog archive, and will close this site soon.

My new address is: http://web.me.com/mrjadkins/TWAIN

I’ve had a great relationship with Edublogs for the years but I want to manage my content more easily, remove the distracting advertisements and merge all my resources into just one website. Right now, my new TWAIN site is a frame for holding my past works and my future conversations. I know it can become more as I invest my time into it.

So – change your bookmarks and/or feeds! http://web.me.com/mrjadkins/TWAIN

See you on the flip!

Today marked the first day of open sessions and the exhibit hall at TCEA. I had a full schedule laid out on my cheat-sheet (which keeps me from pulling out the booklet), and I completely disregarded it. I ended up visiting the Exhibit Hall and then going to the Blogger Cafe.

But this morning was incredibly awesome! I was really blown away to hear my blog post from a few days ago read out loud to the audience. How incredible was that?!?! I thought it was really cool and my row of Kerrvillites seemed to enjoy it as well. What an honor.

I did attend the TEC-SIG luncheon later and heard the speaker share about how the mood we project reflects the mood of our environment. It wasn’t a technology training talk as we usually get; but it was about how we can serve our stakeholders better. It was that component of learning more about how we can serve than just providing more tools and resources for us to gawk at. I really appreciated this presentation for just that reason.

After this, I was asked to be interviewed for a segment on SchoolTube. I asked for Kari Rhame to interview me and she did. I was hoping to embed the video here tonight but it hasn’t been uploaded to SchoolTube.com yet.

All in all, a great day. I hope to get to my sessions tomorrow and to have a good workshop. Tomorrow I am presenting a workshop for three hours on Web 2.0 Tools and I am about to assemble the presentation right now.

Also – great seeing everyone. Thanks for the handshakes and hellos!