Picking up last month’s 3 week tour of Asia, I still not have finished blogging my way out of the first leg, in Yokohama, Japan, which started with 2 days of workshops and stuff at Yokohama International School. The rest of the week here was devoted to the 2013 Flat Classroom Conference, actually the event whose invitation enabled the trip in the first place.

A big huge giant thanks goes to Julie Lindsay, who runs the show; I’ve had some marginal participating over the years, and did a key last year for their online conference. I was jazzed when she asked me to come be a part of this year’s in-person conference.

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There’s a lot to this conference to which a blog post here will likely miss major chunks. There is the conference wiki, the final video projects, a ning, and maybe 15 more parts. It’s global, and flat.

The unique thing about this conference is that teachers attend with students, something you rarely see. There was several teams from Japan, also from CHina, India, and Malaysia, plus more teachers who came on their own from as far away as Mexico. The conference mixes people together rather effectively. Then there is a whole backchannel of participants who join un virtually.

I got to do a bit of what I always enjoy at events, getting action shots of people, mostly when they do not see me taking the photo. If they pose, I genrally don’t snap the shutter…

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Before I could listen to the old school turntable I got shipped by Jason in Vancouver (and it came to him via Grant Potter) I needed to get some audio equipment, namely an amp with phono inputs and some new speakers. Gardner Campbell gave me the ultimate […]