It has been a number of years since I spoke at the CUE conference, truly, only of the nation’s leaders in the state educational technology realm. I have many friends here in California, and I hope to see as many of them as possible durm my very short stay here.My first session will be a keynote version of a session that I frequently do about the new shape of information: blogs, wikis, podcasting, social bookmarks, social photos, and, of course, the glue that ties it all together, RSS.

• Harnessing the New Shape of Knowledge

I will also be doing a session called, “Let’s Make A Podcast”. The session will be about podcasting, but the may theme will be the production of a collaborative podcast with the session attendees. It is especially useful that this will be among the last sessions of the conference, so I will try to get people talking about what they learned at the conference, and how it will professionally impact them.

• Let’s Make a Podcast

At this moment, two major state educational conferences are gearing up: the California CUE conference, in Palm Springs, and Michigan’s MACUL conference in Grand Rapids. I am pleased and honored to be at the Superintendent Conference Day event, in Utica New York. New York has seen a lot of me in the last couple of years, and I have developed a kindred spirit connection with people here. Many of them can also properly prounounce the word, Grits, now. 😉

The keynote here will be one of my standards, Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. Although I have presented this topic for several years now, it is actually beginning to attract attention and much buzz at ed tech and other education conferences. Here are links to the online wiki handouts for the keynote and my other three breakout presentations:

• Redefining Litearcy for the 21st Century
• Blogs, Wikis, & Podcasting [Blogging] & [Podcasting]
• RSS, the New WWW
• Finding It on the Net: Becoming a Digital Detective

It is a genuine pleasure to return to IL-TCE. It’s a uniquely deep conference in that at the writing of this entry, we are beginning the third day of the event, and it is already shining in the blogosphere. Below is a new feature of my online handouts, an aggregator of the most recent blog postings for this even. Beneath the listing is a link to an additional page which will display a more extensive listing along with pictures that have been taken and attributed to the IL-TCE. Enjoy!

• Online Wiki Handouts for Telling the New Story

Right & Wrong on the Information Highway

The nature of information has changed. It’s changed in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, how and where we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. Each of these characteristics has vast implications us all, and they require a new kind of literacy, information ethics.

This presentation will explore three aspects of this new literacy of information ethics: reliability of information, information property, and information infrastructure.

• Online wiki handouts for Right & Wrong on the Information Highway

Riding the Edge of the Wave

This is a fun session that explores the future of technology. What is interesting about this presentation, though, is that most of the technologies being explored — are already here.

• Online wiki handouts for Riding the Edge of the Wave

I’m spending the afternoon with a group of education and technology leaders in the Jordan School District. The topics list that I recieved was very long. The appropriate online handouts are:

• Telling the New Story
• Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century

Note Takers:

• Margo Shirley
• Kathy Miller
• Bonnie Muir
• Kelly Dumont