Company

Blackboard staff aren’t the only folk at BbWorld ’06 with a blog. Here are some other people blogging from Bb World.

• Paul Erickson, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln on his pheWork blog. Paul has had some great summaries of Malcolm Gladwell’s opening keynote and the afternoon presentation by Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky.
  
• Kate Boardman, from the U. of Teesside in the UK on her Katielou blog, and she’s got a great Flickr stream of photos of San Diego and the conference. (And, Kate, here’s your list of others blogging the conference, per your request.)

As a long-time Blackboarder, I’ve known Paul and Kate for years, mostly through our conferences. Since I’m holding down the fort in the DC offices, I’ll miss getting to hang out with them at BbWorld this year. And I’ll miss getting to meet some of the the new blogging faces on the scene in ’06:

• Malcolm Murray of Durham University in the UK isn’t a new face to Blackboard, but I think this is the first year he has blogged from the conference. His blog, Playing With Building Blocks, is actually all about developing for Blackboard.
  
• Ryan is a TEFL/TESOL teacher who came all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to attend BbWorld ’06. He has a dedicated BbWorld’06 blog set up to complement his TEFL Interactive blog.
  
• Kevin Roebuck of Sun Microsystems mentioned being at BbWorld ’06 on his blog (and has some good comments about the performance optimization work Blackboard and Sun have been collaborating on), but it doesn’t look like he’s blogging from the conference . . . yet. Maybe we can draw him out with a mention.
  
• Kevin Creamer from University of Richmond (where I used to teach!) has a few notes on his blog, Pandaemonium, and I’m looking forward to more.

I’m sure there are some other people blogging at BbWorld that I have just not been able to track down yet. If you or someone you know is blogging the conference, let us know.