Well thanks to the inspiration of some fellow travellers I am going to attempt to keep a blog of my travels on the ACCE study tour. I am really looking forward to the trip and all that I can learn and hopefully bring back to my school. I am really hoping to bring back some ideas on staff training in  ICT, strategic direction setting and a raft of new tools a goodies to inspire staff and provide resources for them to help change they way that they think and teach with ICT.  ICT is such a huge field and there is so much that can be done in and with it to inspire and engage our students. I would also like to explore ways to be innovative and to shift educational paradigms of how ICT should be done. Phew I am exhausted already. Hopefully I will also get a little bit of sightseeing done! I also hope this will be a great way to keep a record of the trip and especially the conference as I am sure that I will be brain dead by the end of it. So many sessions to choose from and go to, 17,000 plus educators, San Antonio to see, people to meet. So please enjoy the journey!

Well test over and lesson plan is almost finished. I didn’t realise how much work it would be to complete so hopefully I will get it done by Friday. It will be interesting to connect with my students on Wednesday and see how they are going on the lesson plan and get their feedback. I have found already just in the preparation of the plan for submission I have ahad to change what I have given the studnets. Good teaching practise to reflect on your lessons though so that is OK. It will be interesting to see what the final product looks like.
Well also being a little distracting is the NECC 2008 conference and trying to choose sessions. There is so much to choose from it is very overwhelming but I am sure that I will get there eventually. I am very much looking forward to the trip, getting to meet new people and learning more about ICT in education. It should be excellent!