Bumping Into People
Posted on May 17, 2008
Filed under twitter and tagged edublogosphere
Hello world! After a forced break from writing here (too much stuff going on, I will refrain from boring you with it) I am finally feeling as though I have a little bit of not-so-rushed time to sit and contribute. For my first return post I have a face to face meeting to share with you!
Last Monday I went to the SLAV (School Libraries Association of Victoria) Web 2.0 Conference and had the pleasure of hearing Will Richardson speak. He spoke so very well and was inspiring, and it was just great to see him in person after seeing his name in so many places and reading his blog from time to time. I recorded his session with my iPod voice recorder, but I’m not sure how it will go as a podcast as it’s a bit quiet. I’ll get to that and let you know.
The highlight of the day, though, was meeting some fellow Aussie educators with whom I have been in contact with in the edublogosphere for a while now! I’ve been reading Jo McLeay’s blog for ages and we’ve had several chats online over Twitter or Skype. It was fabulous meeting Jo. She came up to me and gave me a great big hug - it was like meeting an old friend even though we’ve never met before! Here we are:
I was actually saying something to my esteemed colleague Anne at the time. I don’t normally make a habit of smiling like that! 
I also met John Pearce who runs Salty Solutions Consultancy, and blogs over at My Other Blog. He’s also part of the Oz/NZ Educators network. Here is a quick snap of me, John and Anne.
John and Gary Bass (who I met at the conference and recognised as a teacher from my school years ago!) have just written a book about Web 2.0 tools called Technology Toolkit - An Introduction to Web 2.0. Here’s Jo and John checking out Jo’s chapter in it!
So the best part of my day by far was meeting these people and a couple of others. It really felt like we (myself and Anne) were meeting up with old friends, as we have been in touch with these people for a while now as part of our personal learning networks, which are made up of our blogs, our wikis, our Twitter conversations, our social bookmarking which all facilitates our passion for learning and sharing!
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