NECC 2007 — You can still tune in!

Even though Necc 2007 is now a distant memory, I am pleased to share many ways you can still enjoy this educational conference, an annual favorite of mine! Those who know me know that I am huge fan of library gurus Doug Johnson (of the Blue Skunk Blog) and Joyce Valenza (of the Neverending Search Blog), who I got to speak with personally at the conference. Yes, I was star struck by some of my favorites, but both of these are really easy going folks who love to talk about the state of libraries in education today. NECC made podcasts of many of the sessions, as well as webcasts. The podcasts are now available for you to listen to, and the webcasts will be coming soon. [UPDATE: Webcasts are available NOW here and HERE.]

Here is a link directly to Doug Johnson’s session titled Classrooms and Libraries for the Net Generation, and here is a link directly to Joyce Valenza’s session (co presented with Ken Rodoff) titled Inforamtion Fluency Meets Web 2.0. Both are excellent sessions I attended, and there was standing room only in these sessions. Many opted to sit on the floor. I even know of a small group who sat in the hallway and listend via someone “skypecasting” the session live!

There are a lot of other sessions available in this format at the Apple Learning Interchange Site, the official podcast channel of NECC.

No time to sit and listen?? Visit Hitchhikr or Technorati to read up on the sessions that were blogged. I wish I could share the energy in the blogger lounges as well, but most of that was unrecorded conversations. But you can read all about it in the blog postings from above.

As you enjoy your summer break, perhaps you’ll be able to enjoy this conference as well, even from afar.

Is there anything at NECC for you?

Just in case you think the ISTE and NECC are not relevant to school librarians, think again. Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato Public Schools, has posted a slew of sessions from the 2007 NECC Program that are directly related to media and school libraries. Read what he has publicized as being directly for media specialists by clicking here. Visit the NECC site to see for yourself. It’s in Atlanta this year, and that really is just a short drive for most of us. I’ll be there, and hope to see some other fellow SC lms’s attending too. It is such a shame that NECC and ALA overlap this year since both are a reasonable distance for us here in SC. NECC is June 24-27. Anyone interested in going?

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