AERA: Recap ... sort of ...

I attended AERA this week in my adopted "hometown" of NYC. I assumed that I would have things to post about and links to share, but I it really isn't that kind of a conference. Given the 500 page fine print book of presentations, my goal was to see a handful of specific presenters ... current teachers, former teachers, friends, researchers I know about, etc. To that end, I was able to see and meet briefly with Drs. Amy Adcock, Anne Leftwich, Curt Bonk, and Terry Anderson. In the process of hearing their talks, I also got to hear from a slew of other presenters during their sessions. Unfortunately, the conversations were too brief, but that is usually the way with this type of thing. At the end of the day, I picked up on a several new concepts to chew on, but I'm happy to be back at my laptop to rejoin my "real" learning network ;)

p.s. I missed running into Chris Craft who tweeted that he was at the conference ... too many people, too many venues, too little time ...