The K12 Online Conference officially begins next week, but you can check out David Warlick’s pre-conference presentation entitled “Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning” at http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=26

You can download the presentation video (85 MB) in mp4 format. Some listeners reported problems with loading this file. Although it took a few minutes it loaded fine for me. Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher, wrote on her blog instructions on how to load the file if you have problems. Thanks Vicki for the help!

On Wednesday, October 11 there was a Skypecast, When Night Falls, for K12 Online Conference to kick it off, (although it doesn’t officially start until next week).  Check out the wiki for more info. Unfortunately, I was not able to listen in and participate as I had planned. My daughter went into labor earlier that day and delivered my first grandchild, Dallas Christopher! He’s definitely a cutie.