Full Circle Associates

Well, I'm sitting in the airport, surrounded by Desire2Learn staff, all heading home after their user community gathering. I did a keynote this morning on "Technology for/and/by Communities" (slides and resources here.) I saw the beautiful aerial bridge, but Scott Feldstein got a MUCH better picture, so I had to link it to the blog.

It was fun to do a workshop yesterday with Will Richardson, have a F2F conversation with Stephen Downes (more about groups and networks and a fascinating side track into the phrase "taking responsibiity" which I need to chew on more before I blog),, meeting F2F a former Online Facilitation workshop participant, Jason Barr, meet lots of new people and see a user community in action.

Watching people talk about their experiences with the D2L elearning platform echoed what I talked about this morning about technology stewardship, about the intertwining of technology and community. It was a nice "click" for me, and I hope it was for the folks in the audience. It was an EARLY talk!

I have continued to feel pangs for not blogging, but there should be some time in the coming week, as well as a focus on the Technology and Communities book, client work and some vacation planning. It looks like Bogota, Columbia will be my next work trip, so the year of lots of travel continues. Does that make it the year of barely blogging?

Well, time to fly... adios, Duluth!