UPDATE: We’ve posted the notes that we have for the groups. If there are any additional notes that you’d like posted, please contact us and we’ll make them available!

Thank you so much for attending the 2009 SIM Conference.  We always learn so much from you, and you have us already thinking about next year. Please be sure to provide us with feedback through the Survey Monkey link as soon as possible.

Your feedback on the Wednesday strands will be particularly useful in developing our plans for next year. Three of this year’s strands were led by SIM® Professional Developers, whom we called upon to lead the strand because of their depth of knowledge on the strand topics. Next, we asked Professional Development Leaders whether they would help to develop and participate in the strands and asked them to designate the strand upon which they would most like to collaborate. As you experienced, their involvement in the planning and delivery made for a spectacular day.

Thank you to Helen Barrier (who did double duty with the Wednesday strand and Friday’s brilliant Slide:ology Pecha-kucha), Candace Bixler, Kristina Braud, Gail Cheever, Beverly Colombo, Vicki Cotsworth, Barbara Duchardt, Barbara Ehren, Peggy Graving-Reyes, Ann Hoffman, Patty Kohler-Evans, Jerri Neduchal, Suzanne Robinson, Shari Schindele, Sue Woodruff, and Michael Faggella-Luby.  To each of you, leading the strand work meant giving up the freedom to attend a strand, but your voice was too important to miss. You are pure gold!

• Information about many of the current initiatives (i.e. Read 180, Understanding by Design, AVID, etc) and how PDers see them working with SIM

• Sara Prewett will share the latest from the National Center on RTI and we’ll talk about how different states and districts are working with CLC and RTI

• Don will be with us for part of the session to share info and talk with us to further strengthen our SIM core

• Jean will stop by for a discussion on data collection and the research

• A Share Fair of sorts where a number of folks will be sharing things such as use of videos, Powerpoints with a twist, organization systems and record keeping for SIM PDers, using Stratepedia, Moodle and more, and energizers and activities.

• Lots and lots of sharing!!!!

All handouts we have received to date will be loaded on a USB drive you will receive when you check in at the conference. Handouts arriving at KU-CRL after today’s deadline but before Monday will be posted to the conference web site. Many are here already, so check back daily!

If you really, really need paper handouts, you should feel free to download them from this site and print them before you arrive in Lawrence.

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There is a small business office area in the lobby of the hotel with two computers available for use.  You may also print  from there.  Printouts are picked up at the front desk.  There is no charge for printing (within reason).

The video that you see below is one that Mona and I watched last month when we took part in a global online conference. We loved this video because it captured a number of the rationales that we have been kicking around here during our SIM conference planning. We think that this will help you begin to get into our heads our reasons for remodeling this summer’s conference.

The video will take about 20 minutes of your time.

Here is a link to the ning site that contained the original video.