Lunch

Ok, not that I would normally post about lunch, but thought it was worth writing about. I met Neil Caidin from Duke that I was supposed to be arranging a meeting with and forgot to. We happened to be next to each other at the last session, and in the cancelled session.

Also met Julia Evans from Emory who was extremely positive about Mary's session last year, saying she had a picture of the student portal at her desk to try to remind her colleagues what to aim for. Led to a lunchtime discussion about what the purpose of the student portal was (yes, I know it is called shuspace now), and what types of roles we had and why.

Nothing on this session slot I was interested in, so am catching up on work emails and prepping for my session (and writing in the blog obviously). Next session is about students creating widgets for Blackboard sites, which sounded quite student-y and cool. Hopefully I won't be disappointed. The students are doing the presenting too.

Finally the last session will be Malcolm Murray talking about things to consider when deciding whether or not to use building blocks other people made, build your own, etc. Sounds good.

Then it's "live long and prosper" time, which promised to be 'unique'. I only hope they let us go on the rides there, not just eat dinner.