Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Independence Day

Another tourist day in San Diego. We explored the huge conference center area and surrounding parks and waterfront in a morning jog/walk. The bulk of the day was spent heading to Coronado by ferry renting bikes and riding the bike path to the Silver Sands State Park where we enjoyed the beach (hey, it is Southern California!). We came back with a side trip to Balboa Park, more to scout out the area for a trip today. It will be the Zoo and the Museums. Explored a great cactus garden - not a plant that I get to see often and now know ten times more about the Australian Diggerydoo than I did yesterday (you can make a "practice" one with a 4 foot piece of PVC pipe from Home Depot!)

NECC Conference officially opens today. We get to pick up our conference packets, and there is a reception this evening on the terrace of the convention center, where we will be able view the multiple fireworks happening on the bay. I am finding the web site that is generally excellent to be a bit of a pain to see the grand overview. You can explore by theme and time but I need to see a daily grid to see where the overlaps and conflicts lie. There is an interactive conference planner and some of the conference bloggers are using a web based spreadsheet (Google beta I think) to create their own grid but I am not seeing exactly what I. I think what I need is available in the online package but I am not finding it or using the conference planner the right way.

Lots of thing happening around open source solutions for K12 so that may be an area of emphasis for me. Need the complete grid!!!!!

No comments: