Wow, what a day! Less than eight total hours, but what a day. The Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium is over. Looks like we ended up with over 90 posts in the blog, over 120 pictures taken by the community in Flickr, 14 podcasts, and 5 streaming videos of sessions — all in one day! That doesn’t include the pictures of all the people who stopped at the iMac with PhotoBooth running on it.
I can’t thank all the people who worked so hard to pull this off! I also can’t thank all of you out there who helped with ideas, sent me encouragement to try something different, and dropped links to it yesterday. Now the fun starts — how do we build on an event like that? That is what my team will start to look at immediately. No matter how you carve it up, it was a great day with all sorts of new things going on.
[...] Last year one of the big things I spent a ton of time on after arriving at ETS was the TLT Symposium. The Symposium is a full day event on our campus that serves to gather faculty and staff to look at how technology is being used to impact teaching, learning, and research. Last year I put a lot of effort into integrating an open feel to the event — I pushed to have the site come alive as a blog, we podcasted sessions and in the hallways, and more. It turned out to be a very good event and it sparked a lot of interest in the social computing space. [...]