NECC 09 has come and gone and after reading many blog posts about it today I realized I better get busy on my own post. I’m going to start out with a quick post of the things that are running through my head at the moment.

1. Goals-I didn’t do a very good job of meeting my goals that I listed in my last post.

2. Next Time…. I had some of these thoughts and Chad Lehman posted a question about this topic on Classroom 2.0. You can go there to see what I’ll do differently next time. And if you attended NECC add your thoughts as well.

3. What I Learned-Well, I’m still feeling a little overwhelmed. I need to sit down and sort through my notes and look through links. This will take a little time. I have notes on Plurk, Google Docs and somewhere on the Mac I was using. I will post information here and on the ning soon.

4. PLN-Meeting and hanging out with people in my PLN, especially the Plurkers, was what meant the most to me at this conference. It was amazing to see people I had never met face to face and to go up and give them a hug. I’m sure the times we spent together talking and having lunch, dinner, or drinks is going to make our online friendships even stronger.

I’ll be leaving for NECC in DC on Friday. I am so excited to be attending my second NECC conference. My daughter is a little worried about me. I’m doing what I tell her not to do. I’m meeting people and actually rooming with people that I have met on line but never in real life. She’s 16 and sometimes I’m not sure if she is really worried or just giving me a hard time!

As I prepare to leave I’m trying to focus in on a few goals for the conference.

Here’s what I have so far:

I really like Google-reader, calendar, documents, mail. But I want to know more before i start to entice my coworkers about their benefits.

We’re finally getting SmartBoards in our school next year as well as document cameras and flip video cameras. I want to attend sessions on how elementary classes are implementing this tools, particulary the Flips.

I just bought an ipod Touch and we’re going to get a few ipods for our school next year. So, I also want to find ways these are being used in the elemetary school.

As a lab teacher I’m always looking for meaningful, engaging  lessons for my students.

Last year one of my goals was to work on being a more outgoing person. I tend to be very quiet when I’m around people I don’t know. I did pretty good last year and I have the same goal this year. I’m really looking forward to meeting people in my PLN face to face.

If you’re going to NECC what are your goals?