Just got back from Summer Conference and had a few minutes to sit down and compose my thoughts. IMHO, every teacher should go to some type of professional conference at least once a year.

To me, this is a perfect opportunity to learn new things, and possibly contribute some of your own ideas as well. My opinion of a successful conference is any time that I can walk away from one of these events with more new ideas. I would have to say that this year's conference was definitely a success.

Picked up some interesting tips about SME Server, Dynamips, Dynagen, Dynagui, and a few other Moodle tricks too. This should keep me busy and hopefully blogging too... Even found a nice tutorial on Dynamips while looking for the URL to use for this post. So much stuff, so little time.

I also presented a few topics myself and my friends at QTL blogged about it, Charles Thorne and I teamed up to present a session on "Setting Up Your Own Moodle Server" that Robin Fred wrote up at The QTL CareerTech Blog.

I'm afraid, though, that we may have missed our audience. Participants seemed to want to know more about how to use Moodle than about how to install it. I'm thinking that next year I'll have to do a session on Moodle tips and tricks. I am happy to add that my post on Free Moodle Classrooms did seem to help a lot with those people who didn't want to install, but, wanted to use Moodle in their own classrooms.