First Day of the Distance Education Conference

Tuesday evening I registered for the Distance Education Conference sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at the Monoma Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin. I had light refreshements and met some nice people.

Wednesday morning I attended a workshop held on the UW campus on blogging and podcasting. I set up this blog there. The workshop was a good learing experience, but it would have been better if it had been a fullday instead of a halfday workshop. The instructors had us download Audacity (a free audio recording program) and record a podcast. They had evidently forgotten that if you want to export your audio recording in MP3 format you have to download the free LAME plugin, so we were not able to post our podcasts.

This afternoon I visited the vendor exhibits in the Center and picked up tons of great freebies.

Tomorrow I have a full day of workshops at the Convention Center. Stay tuned for tomorrow's report. I will report on the beautiful UW campus in another blog. I was especially delighted to visit it because I am a student in the Distance Education Certificate program there and I am a longtime Badgers football fan.