{"id":998,"date":"2006-09-19T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/aect-2006-dallas-here-i-come\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:59","slug":"aect-2006-dallas-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/aect-2006-dallas-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"AECT 2006:  Dallas Here I Come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just pulled the trigger on my registration to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aect.org\/Events\/Registration\/Login.asp\">2006 <span>AECT<\/span> Convention<\/a> in Dallas, TX. It will be a great <span>opportunity<\/span> to hear some interesting presentations and to meet and greet students and faculty in my program (a <em><strong>very rare treat<\/strong><\/em> for a distance student). Also, I&#39;m just guessing, but it looks like the organizers are using a <span>Drupal<\/span> installation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aect-members.org\/convention\/\">&quot;official&quot; convention site<\/a> &#8211; sure looks like <span>Drupal<\/span>, right? I may try to keep up regular blog posts about the experience if I get a reliable <span>Internet<\/span> connection while I&#39;m there. Now, to find out about what Dallas has to offer for the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aect-members.org\/convention\/node\/2\">down time<\/a>&quot; &#8230;<br \/> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AECT\">AECT<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/edtech\">edtech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just pulled the trigger on my registration to the 2006 AECT Convention in Dallas, TX. It will be a great opportunity to hear some interesting presentations and to meet and greet students and faculty in my program (a very rare treat for a distance student). Also, I&#39;m just guessing, but it looks like the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-education-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}