ASTD’s TechKnowledge ’08, Day 1 (And a Little Royce)

What I have seen – although very little – of San Antonio I love. The River Walk is just great. I met a guy that just got out of the ‘pen’ after 15 years and was walking home. Good times!

The Conference is a few short blocks from my hotel. Thankfully, I get to walk a bit to get there. Beautiful and sunny. As I came into the building I saw my friend Seniye Groff – a was nice to start off the day in a place I was afraid I would not know anyone.

The sessions were well done. I went to the ones focused on Social Learning. And they validated everything we all have been talking about. Not a lot of new material for me, but it was good to see that we are all on the same track.

My session is on Thursday morning, at 8am in the Hilton. I am very excited for it! There just might be a ‘little’ too much material created, however. Oh well – we will get to what we can. It is difficult to gloss over it. Maybe better said, I wish I didn’t have to gloss over it. Only 90 minutes to cover how to implement a SL environment. I am going broad in scope, rather than deep.

It has been great meeting people and hearing their thoughts about Social Learning, too. Oddly enough (my wife thinks VERY odd) I love being up in front of people, but when it comes to interacting with others in this type of a format, I am just not comfortable. Once I get in a conversation, I am fine, but getting there… Oh boy!

By the way, I try not to get too much person ‘stuff’ in here, but I just can’t help it.

Royce Miller Jones – Born less than a week ago.  A healthy baby boy! Easy going and all his brothers and sisters can’t get enough holding time in!