A Beginning

I'm sitting inside "Camp November," the lovely late 19th Century home of my friend Alan November on a warm July evening. Hailing from Seattle, where the Pacific Ocean rarely ventures above hypothermia-inducing, I found the Atlantic, mere steps away from the house, a balmy 65 degrees. I waded in from the rocky shore and felt the tension from a long day's travel washed away.

The town of Marblehead was built on granite flecked with rose and white quartzite veins criss-crossing the bedrock. These formations, when first seen by early colonists from the decks of approaching British ships, resembled banks of marble glowing in the setting sun's final rays. The long hump of Cape Cod, a vast deposit of debris at the terminal moraine of the last great northern glacier, peaks into view twenty miles to the South East.

I'm attending Alan's Building Learning Communities Conference. Serving as the National Strategic Initiatives Manager for Promethean, I've decided to start my first blog by documenting my experiences at this, my second Alan November conference. Since many of my teaching colleagues at Promethean aren't able to attend, this blog will serve as both a personal journal and a meeting place to collaborate and share new ways of thinking about engaging students with technology.