Professional Development

what did i get out of todays professional development?

• I got, how to use Alice to teach basic principles of computer programming.
• where i need to heading in computer science.
• resoures through the use of sceniarios to teach basic principles through story telling.
• a development environment that is not complex, though it has yet to be finished off, with alice 3.0 intergrating the sims charcters.
• the conversations in the breaks, these are the ones which you wis you could take a tape recorder to, to play back afterwards,
• the last lecture is a must thst I have to watch and listen to, available on youtube.
• contacts with my old lecturers so I can align courses that are helpful to them.
• the ability to show off what the students have been doing with scratch.
• a way of aligning sustainability with the new curriculum, this needs to have some more thought and be developed some more before it can be presented back to the department/school.
• a sense that some things haven't changed much in the eight years that I left tertiary study.

oh and the data plans came out today for the iphone, $80 a month, it is an extra $40 than I am paying now, can I afford it, I think not. Maybe I just get a iPod touch instead.