In anticipation of the SOSCON09 in Honey-Grove ISD–where I’ll be presenting two half-day sessions for teachers on Moodle, as well as a “geek” strand the following day–I’ve submitted a few workshop titles. I encourage you to do the same! Note, I don’t want to teach all of them…1-2 would be fun, especially the esoteric ones.

Here they are:

Keynote/Feature Presentations:

• Moodle Habitudes (45-50 min but can be adjusted down)
• Embracing Technology for Positive Change
• Be the Match

Hands On Sessions:

• Blog Your World!
• Social Bookmarking
• Building Your Academic Learning Network
• Collaborative Storytelling with Digital Tools
• Grabbing Video off the Web
• Setting Up UbuntuLinux for Dual Boot on a Mac (bring your Mac)
• Creating a Bootable UbuntuLinux Flash/Thumb Drive
• Backup, Restore Your MySQL Databases the Easy and Safe Way
• Backing Up and Imaging Your Computer with System Rescue CD
• Creating the Walled Garden – Using Free, Open Source Software to Create Safe, Teaching and Learning Environments

What really gets me excited is that I’ll have a chance to pick up some techie skills. Some of the sessions I’d really like to see include:

• Optimizing Your PHP/MySQL Server – This session would provide a hands-on overview of how to install popular cache tools (e.g., xcache) to speed up PHP/MySQL servers. I’d also like more information on how to speed up/optimize MySQL databases…stuff you have to pay $2000 for to learn from the MySQL people.
• FOG – This session would walk me through setup of a server and installation of the software, as well as customization of the client.

My one concern is that these sessions appeal more to technology administrators rather than the rank-in-file folks. That can have an isolating effect…”techies” over here, “regular folks” over there. A good conference bridges the gap, helping each group better understand the other and find value and points of reference they can use to learn.

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