After our ICT development network meeting today I realised just how much I have learnt about the world of ICT, PD, web 2.0 and ICT trends just by being a member of the study tour and checking out every-one’s blogs and following leads. i was having conversations with people about topics that a year ago I would’ve had very limited ideas about. I can only imagine what I am going to gain from two weeks of intense learning about ICT with some incredibly passionate Australian educators and tapping in to what the rest of the world has to offer. I think it will be some incredible hot housing going on on my part. I am looking forward to bring back all I have learnt and trying to implement some of it into my school.

I  think I have finished my conference program and have a good mix of serious sessions about PD and leadership with a couple of “fun” hands on sessions thrown in for good measure. I have also tried my best to spend some time in the expo and given the itinerary that was mailed out to us earlier this week I am very grateful for the Tourist Day in San Antonio as I think my brain will need some down time!

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!