Day 1

Today was the official first day of the conference. At breakfast it was so great to see the friends that I hadn't seen in some time. I'm looking forward to spending more time with them as the conference progresses.

I met with the IEAB for pretty much the entire day. Julia Fallon, one of our IEAB members presented a session on "Reaching and Teaching the Digital Native". The information that she presented was fascinating. She introduced us to a new term called "Millenials" which in essence describes the "Digital Native" who is anyone that was born after 1980. We discussed how do we should embrace the technology tools that are at our hands and leverage them as teaching tools. The message that Julia left with us was that we all need to be co-learners and learn these tools with the students. This was an exciting topic and I definitely look forward to the white paper that we will produce out of this discussion.

In the afternoon we delved right into the IC3 2005 standards. We reviewed the objectives and discussed what may be considered no longer relevant and what new and emerging technology and skills do we need to look at to incorporate into the new standard. It was fascinating to hear the group's feedback. I think that most of the updates will happen within Living Online based on our discussion. We did discuss in some detail whether or not incorporating social responsibility (e.g. what's appropriate to post on a blog or your MySpace page) should be considered as a part of digital literacy. There were some interesting observations regarding this topic.

Here are some photos from today's working sessions:

Jon Haber, Julia Fallon and Lynedon Van Ness

Julia Fallon working her stuff

We ended the night at MGM Studios where they did an Indiana Jones show for us and even incorporated the show while we were eating dinner. I thought that it was a very creative way keep us entertained and while we ate. I certainly did not pay attention to how much I was actually eating so now in my hotel room I'm feeling slightly too full.

Susan Sambol and I right before the show

Doug Anderson taking a picture of me as I am taking one of him at the same time (this will seem dumb if he does not post the picture of me taking one of him)

-Sunny