Foundations of Digital Games<\/a> conference.
\n\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nI went to this last year, and it was the single best experience I had ever had. Because we were fairly isolated in one place, we really interacted, especially between sessions and meals.<\/p>\n
We were seated together at each dinner service but in random groups — the first night was assigned. That encouraged us to sit together for other meals. Frequently I’d be in a dining area and a total stranger but "tagged" walked up and joined me. We had fabulous conversations about the topics involved. I even had the courage to sit down with some of the presenters and ask them even MORE questions about their presentations.<\/p>\n
It was very empowering. On several different occasions I was complimented by fellow attenders by my good questions — I’ve gotten in a habit because I work for a heavily audited school district to go to conferences and listen intendly for a good question. Then at the end, I ask it, giving those around me a good chance to remember I’m there at the actual session if it comes up. Yeah, sad, but I do think of good questions doing and it helps me be a more active participant. Try it sometime.<\/p>\n
I even have several college professions wonder why I stayed at the high scohol level — I have no idea how it works in their part of the world, but I know that in mine, my work environment is more stable and I actually DO make more than most college professors, at least at the master’s level. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man, oh, man, I wish I was with them! Quoted from http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alfredth\/archive\/2009\/04\/26\/fdg-2009-day-one.aspx: Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : FDG 2009 Day One So I am aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship for the Foundations of Digital Games conference. I went to this last year, and it was the single best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}