The calm before the storm, as conference attendees settle in and get ready to hear me hold forth on “The Digital Imagination,” my keynote talk at yesterday’s opening of the fourth annual Teaching and Learning With Technology Conference at James Madison University. My thanks to Jim, Andrea, and Mary Ann for being such wonderful hosts, for putting together an enjoyable and thought-provoking conference (they made it look effortless, but I know how tough it is), and for giving me the opportunity to try to work with and share some ideas I’ve been haunted by for some time. The haunting continues, as do the work and sharing.

If you have a chance, drop by the conference–it’s in its second day today.

Full disclosure: I messed up a climactic moment when I was to drop in a devastating audio clip from Chris Dede: I hadn’t pulled the audio over from the folder on my flash drive, only the PPT slides. Typical hasty mistake and I figured it out ten minutes after the talk was done and my adrenaline had begun to subside. Luckily God created a thing called “post-production,” and that clip is restored here. Also, the audio is a little clippy throughout, for which my apologies.

If you want the moment as it originally went down, here’s the original audio from yesterday’s talk as recorded by the folks at JMU. That was fast! It’s great to have conference resources appearing while the conference is still going on. Kudos to the JMU team.

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