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My Chinese visa has arrived, Thai re-entry permit has been secured, tickets are in hand and paid for, and only 5 more wake-ups before I get to travel to Shanghai for the Learning 2.0 conference! I have to admit, I always get excited about conferences, but this one looks especially amazing. I took a quick look through the conference schedule and here are my some of my top choices (I can’t seem to narrow it down to just one presentation per session yet…):

Session 1:

• The Instructional Technologist: Next Generation Tech Coordinator
• The No Time Slam Dunk Digital Lesson

Session 3:

• Teaching Media Literacy in an Age of Wikilobbying, Spin, Tabloid Journalism and the Photoshopping of Reality
• The Big Shifts in Learning
• Media Producers and Consumers in the Web 2.0 Classroom

Session 4:

• Way Beyond Web 2.0
• Best Practices in 21st Century Library Media Centers

Session 6:

• Building Learning Communities
• It’s Their Future: Make the Case for Problem Technologies in Schools

Session 7:

• A New Literacy Landscape - Multiple Literacies vs. the Narrow Agenda and Wal-Mart Curriculum
• Inventing the Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society

Session 8:

• Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments
• Virtual Learning Communities of Change
• Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects with Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools

And these are just my top choices from just an initial read-through of the schedule. Susan is right: there are way too many exciting sessions on the schedule to be able to make it to all of them on my own. Who’s got the cloning machine?

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