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I've been busy lately and meaning to blog for ages, so I thought I'd give an update on what's been a whirlwind last few weeks for me.

During the last week of October, I had the honour of presenting at the TTI/Vanguard conference on leveraging networks - this is the conference that Jen and I were invited by Nicholas Negroponte to speak at back in 2000 that connected us to several friends and advisors, so I was excited to have the chance again, and it was a great learning experience too! Although I had to leave after the first day to speak at a conference in Calgary.

Later that week, I visited the amazing Orchard School in Indianapolis, where I spoke at the Middle School leadership conference, and also to the faculty about TIG and how they could get involved with global education through the TIGed tools! I got some great feedback and several of the teachers saw immediate ways to get started on TIG.

In the first week of October, I was supposed to fly to another conference in Sydney stopping in Auckland to present two workshops at ULEARN 07 with the help of Cherrie Kong, one of our TIG members from NZ that was involved in our Student Voices contest and been involved in helping with many other things since then. However, after the crazy few weeks beforehand, and with a lot of needs at TIG on the tech front, I decided to stay home for the week and carve out some serious coding time to catch up with all the things I needed to work on! Cherrie was a HUGE help managing the workshop remotely and I presented via video conference :)

Last week, I travelled to Sydney to speak at the Australian Council for School Leaders (ACEL) and ASCD joint International conference, where I shared my story and TIG's vision and programs with over 1,500 school leaders from Australia, Asia, and the USA. I feel like it went very well - I've been invited back by a few different people and noticed many new Australia TIG members each day for the last few days! I did something a bit silly too. I really wanted to get Air Canada Super Elite status this year (which you get by flying over 100,000 miles) - so I flew to Sydney via Taiwan and Singapore - an extra 7 hours each way! It was the same price and Singapore Airlines is fabulous, so it wasn't too bad. (plus I got upgraded on several of the flights so I ate some tasty food - and spent time in the gym at the Singapore airport in both directions!) And now I have the status so I'm looking forward to extra-special treatment by Air Canada in the future :)

This week, I spoke in Edmonton yesterday at the Alberta Distance Education symposium to about 500 educators from K-12 and Universitiy, and hopefully got a lot of people in Alberta excited about TIG and TIGed! I took a few hours before dinner to check out the West Edmonton Mall which was actually quite cool.

Today I flew to Fairbanks, Alaska to speak at the University of Fairbanks tomorrow to their Student Leadership conference, and Monday to University faculty and local educators before flying back home on Monday night. I'll enjoy almost a week at home before heading to Helsinki, Finland next week for the School of the Future conference where our advisory board for the MS education program will be meeting, and I'll be presenting TIGed. The week after that, I'm excited to be travelling with Nick to the Tech Museum Awards, where TIG is being honoured this year as a winner in the Education Category!

I hope all of you are doing well, and welcome to all the new TIG members that I have been recruiting in my travels! :)

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cherrie Cherrie
October 20, 2007 | 1:40 AM
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