Almost exactly a year ago, I attended the UCISA Management Conference 2006 in Blackpool. Today, I’m off to the 2007 conference in Hammersmith. I was truly inspired by the 2006 conference, and my last blog post of the conference challenged me (and others) to go back to work and ‘do something different’

I’d decided a few days ago that I ought to post a follow-up as a prelude to this years conference, and then coincidentally Brian Kelly posted a comment asking me if I’d succeeded with my challenge.

So – truth to tell, I don’t feel like I’ve succeeded. It’s been a busy year, and I certainly don’t feel like I’ve achieved nothing. However, those ideas bubbling round my head after talks by Brian, Tim Smit, Steve Heppell et al. still seem a long way off. On the otherhand, I do think that the ideas put forward at the 2006 conference have stuck with me, and I hope continue to inform my thinking – perhaps in the end this is evolution not revolution.

Well – another year, another conference – I hope that the 2007 conference will prove as inspiring as the 2006. I’m particularly looking forward to the sessions on ‘designing technology rich learning spaces’ from Gill Ferrell, and hearing Graham Whitehead speak on Friday.

As usual, I’ll be trying to catch the action via this blog, so stay tuned if you are out there, and I’ll let you know how it goes…