Sean Sharp’s ITRT Blog

The Virginia Society for Technology in Education had their annual conference this past week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I was there for most all of it, and it was quite good. I remember my first VSTE Conference: I was blown away by the number of workshops offered, the “hands-on” sessions, and the meeting of new ed-tech folks. It was pretty mind-blowing to say the least (how’s that for repetition?). My second VSTE conference was across the state at Virginia Beach, on a cold snowy February. It too was quite good. At this conference I was a little more involved–volunteering, helping out in a hands-on workshop, going to sessions, and connecting with other ed-tech folks that I hadn’t seen in a whole year. Whew!

This year it was back in Roanoke and I went to a few sessions, volunteered a lot, and again, enjoyed connecting with people. Some of the highlights for me included volunteering, attending Loudon County’s room and one of their sessions, learning about the “scratch” programming language, creating an impromptu podcast with Tina and Meg, plus heading down to the guitar store, “The Fret Mill” in Roanoke to try out some really nice guitars with Steve and Rich.

All in all, it was a great conference. I’d be remiss to not mention the relatively new VSTE online Ning social network site, too.  If you haven’t joined Ning and this site in particular, I recommend it. There are many social networking sites to check out on Ning, plus you can start your own if you’d like. More in the near future . . . . .

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