Leaving for a conference soon

First of all, I’m sorry for the dearth of posts! My nephew was home for a two-week leave from the Army so my family kept pretty busy. I also have several workshops coming up and one is new for me so I’m working like mad on creating handouts.

I will be offering WordPress MU workshops for educators from our county public schools starting next month. We have WPMU on our server and since I’ve used WP.com for blog I was designated the trainer. So, I’m creating handouts and for my first two workshops I’m going to give registrants the handouts on a flash drive.  I got a great deal at MicroCenter. I will see how this works out. If I hand the flash drives out and people exclaim, “Hey, cool, a flash drive!” I will know it’s a good idea. If they say, “Oh great, another flash drive!” I will know to 86 the idea.

I leave Wednesday morning for Indianapolis for the K-12 Open Minds Conference. This is my first time at the conference and I’m pretty excited. We get to visit a school the first day to see students using open source software. The next two days are session days. I will report back!

Bloglines

I have to mention Bloglines again. I use it to subscribe to my feeds and I can’t say enough about it. Bloglines is easy to use and accessible from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection. This is the RSS newsreader that I recommend in my workshops so if you haven’t started using a newsreader check out Bloglines.