IALLT09 - Where do I start?

There are very few conferences from which I take away great ideas that will immediately impact what I do and how I teach, and none but one that rejuvenates the professional soul and really is a family reunion in my mind. IALLT (The International Association for Language Learning Technology) is that conference. I've spent so much time getting ready for IALLT09 in Atlanta that it has been a month since I've cared to blog! Well, that and it is not in my nature...I have to work at it. Anyway, I'm sure the next few days will be peppered with random memory shots from IALLT09 that I find interesting.

Stay tuned!

I've officially become “app-noxious.”

I had to laugh at this article...Instructional technology students, in my experience, fit this to a "T". Although I have to admit that some are bigger "app-holes" than others....

Even CR agrees!

Wow...amazing how homework gets in the way of blogging!

Anyway, I was elated (not surprised), when CR showed how Macbooks swept their reviews of laptops!

What "Laptop Hunter" doesn't want you to know.

Forget about Mac users being cooler...how about just being smarter?

Another Great PANDORA station

I rarely need to "thumbs down" a song on this PANDORA channel.

Judge Harry Stone would be proud.

AT&T Feeling Threatened by Skype?

I really need to start blogging my "predictions" or "premonitions" when I get them, so it doesn't look like I'm simply bandwagoning when I have known this all along!

I have thought for the longest time that mobile VoIP was going to be the death-knell of the cell phone industry, much like blogs have been to the newspaper industry as we know it. All it takes is one company to offer iPhone-esque hardware, and charge simply for unlimited wireless access. No minutes...no need. You have Skype or something else to allow you to talk globally for free.

Well, this of course won't sit well with those currently in the driver's seat of the industry, just as journalists first scoffed at blogs...before they got really nasty. VoIP wasn't really on the radar of the cell industry...until Skype got an iPhone app. Now, they're getting nasty.

I'm secretly hoping that US Cellular will make the jump to a new business model (and to iPhones), because I am ready to ditch AT&T!!!