It's that time of year to begin planning MY professional development. I spend much of the school year training and supporting others. Part of the summer is MY time to learn. The National Education Computing Conference has become my PD of choice.

Each year NECC gets better and better. Last year featured the first annual EdubloggerCon. This informal meet-up of education bloggers and forming an edubloggers' cafe were certainly the highlight of NECC 2007. In fact, a side-conference was actually taking place in the edubloggers' cafe. Twittercamp was running to highlight exciting events. Conversations and demonstrations were non-stop. Twitter became an indispensable tool. Sidebar chats and Skype conferences within and between sessions became the norm.

NECC 2008 holds even more developments and organization for the "conference within a conference".
Steve Hargadon has been busy organizing NECC 2008 Unplugged. Visit his blog post for a nice description and be sure to JOIN the NECC 2008 Ning!

See y'all in San Antonio! (Just practicing!)