Cyprien and Steve

Originally uploaded by Gardo.

I’m at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, here in rainy and chill Atlanta. As you can see, the conversations begin immediately, and given my insatiable appetite for conversation, I’m guessing the “buffet” will be unusually rewarding this year,

I’m also going to try hard to blog as much as possible, just to get those ligaments loose once more.

Tomorrow I’m the closer for a session on information fluency, led by my friend Chuck Dziuban of the University of Central Florida. Chuck’s very gracious to invite to me to speak, especially given that I will be going off on a metaphorical (not to say metaphysical) tangent that’s likely to be rather different from what precedes my bit. On the other hand, who knows? At our warmup meeting tonight, I met a co-presenter who’s a philosopher specializing in Thomas Hobbes. What’s not to love about a conference with professors, IT specialists, librarians, and administrators mixing it up into the wee hours as we try to figure out where higher ed might (and should) go from here?