Today kicked off the first day of this year’s Social Software in the Academy Workshop, with some fairly interesting discussions on how recent technologies have been affecting pedagogical practice, both in theory/abstract and in practice. Too much stuff to exhaustively comment about, so some brain dump:

• ssaw del.icio.us tag – I’m sure people will regret not agreeing to ssaw05 next year (maybe not, since del.icio.us is rev-chronologically listed
• Public wiki (that bombards me constantly w/ basic auth messages. urgh)
• The room was quite a bit more crowded this year, which unfortunately forced some really squishy seating. Those laptops get hot. Also, the wifi wasn’t bridged, which made Rendezvous Bonjour and SubEthaEdit a real pain. OTOH the food (and drink!) was stupendously good. Thanks, Todd!
• A very active, pretty healthy backchannel. Here’s a link to the final log
• Speaking of backchannel, Justin’s presentation was lots of fun (post video with animated hand action), probably my favorite of the day. As far as value, the breakout sessions and one on one discussions were probably the most useful
• Hopefully some SubEtha notes get online sometime

Also, the our panel tomorrow: Planning for Campus-Wide Integration of Social Software. I’m playing around w/ trying to Nicecast it, but would involve figuring out tunneling on SSH which isn’t working for some reason.