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Ok, how excited am I to post my first BbWorld 2010 blog entry? SO excited!

So – what’s coming up? Well, you can mark your calendars now for BbWorld 2010, being held July 13-16, 2010 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel & Convention Center  in Orlando, Florida!

Sure, Florida is hot. But don’t worry – it will also be humid!

Wow, what an incredible start to BbWorld ’09! The Gaylord/National Harbor Conference Center is a-buzz with clients and Blackboarders alike who are excited about the announcements made yesterday, the networking, sessions, sharing and learning that is going on this year. For those of you who couldn’t make the trip to DC, here’s a snapshot of what happened on Day 1:

 
From Chris Bigenho, Director of Educational Technology, Greenhill School and Rhonda Blackburn, PhD, Associate Provost, Educational Enhancement, The University of Texas at Dallas

It is hard to believe that BbWorld ‘09 is next week. Rhonda and I are both excited about what this year will have to offer. We have been attending these conferences for several years now and each year brings new ideas and possibilities. While I am always interested in learning about the direction of the Blackboard platforms, I personally enjoy making connections with other educators who are looking at creative and powerful ways of changing the face of learning and making teaching and learning more relevant.

A lot is changing in the technology industry around us. Every new development that we hear of centers around the ability to develop plugins and extensions to enhance the user experience. From our social presence on the Facebook® platform to our iGoogle™ homepages to our web browsers to our mobile phones,  those technologies we use on a daily basis are customizable in ways that increase productivity, usability, and even utility.

From David Robinson, LMS Administrator – Georgia Gwinnett College

What were we thinking? Why would a brand new college in the throes of creating a college culture, constructing a campus, and preparing for accreditation decide to pilot a still-in-beta product with live courses in an untested integration? When I put it that way, maybe we are crazy, or maybe as was said of Hamlet, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.”