Today kicked off the 2008 West Virginia Higher Education Technology Conference at Lakeview. I was really looking forward to Mark Greenfield’s opening keynote after lunch and he didn’t disappoint. His presentation, “It’s the End of the Web As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)” was one I caught in Rochester at HighEdWebDev in 2006, but he regularly updates it. It is always fresh and makes you think.
What I came away with (aside from thinking “Man, I wish I had done my presentation slides like that”) is how vital it is for organizations to be flexible and willing to adapt. You have to be willing to innovate and explore new ideas to be successful in what you do. The rest of the world isn’t keeping things the way they are simply because that is the way it has always been done. No sir. The rest of the world is always looking for ways to do it better.
So anyway…yes, it was a great keynote, I’m really glad I got to see it.
I only had time to attend one session, Social Media in Education. It was very interesting. I came away with some ideas for incorporating social media in the class I teach.
If you are attending the this year’s conference, what do you think of the conference so far? Did you catch the keynote? What sessions are you going to or have been to?
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