Hanging out at ELI -- Day 1

Hanging out at ELI -- in New Orleans

 As our poster session happened this afternoon, focusing on "Changing the Culture of Learning One Class at a Time," we got involved with lots of conference attendees who chatted with us for almost two hours about designing classrooms and faculty development.  We received lots of good ideas, some new technologies to follow up on, and new connections.
Oh, and who is we?  Vicky Cardullo from Auburn's College of Education and Scott Simkins from Auburn's College of Liberal Arts worked with me on the poster presentation and came along to the conference to give the faculty side of the story.  All around, a great success.

Scott, Wiebke, and Vicky at ELI

In the meantime, we also had a great keynote by John Medina on The Learning Brain, which is partly based on his book Brain Rules -- very engaging, with great stories, examples and memories -- and some of them made it even past my working memory into the nomadic phase of my memory...
Clearly, learning more about how the brain works can lead to some interesting discussions in education.