i like Sandy’s idea of ending w/action planning…some opportunity to break things down to the tangible immediate future (as part of a larger vision) – lets people leave feeling they’ve gotten something they can clearly articulate out of it, but with that clarity part of the larger picture the class constructs during the week.

it also might be helpful to spend some of the context-building conversation during the intro period having people identify their current roles in their classrooms, and what part technologies play in those classes, for teacher and students. not just to identify literacies but also the intangibles about how they perceive what their classroom is for and what learners are free/encouraged to do in it. because those are things that will be changing for many of us over the next 5 yrs, let alone 15: can we scaffold lateral learning/daydreaming/contribution activities for our students sitting in class with laptops and iphones ready to go, instead of just assuming half of them are on facebook?