The presenters from last year left a lasting impression on me and I have been able to continue sharing the learning on their blogs. Check out some of these before you arrive to taste the variety:

Darren Kuropatwa – A Difference
Lee Kolbert – A Geeky Momma’s Blog
David Jakes – JakesOnline!
Angela Maiers – Angela Maiers Educational Services Putting Learners and Learning First
Lisa Thumann – Thumann Resources
Liz Davis – The Power of Educational Technology
Sara Kajder – Real Reasons to Write (Sara started this blog after presenting her first session at BLC08 – powerful!)

Jeff Utecht – The Thinking Stick After following Jeff’s blog for years I was finally able to both hear him in person and meet him at #BLC09

The list is endless really as so many participants also blog and share.

Get ready to make connections that will move your career path to a deeper level. If you need help along the way, look for the smiling faces in blue November Learning shirts. I look forward to meeting you.

Go out the main hotel door on St. James Ave. Walk one block and take a right on Berkley St. Cross the street to get to the Arlington T-stop. Take the Heath St. train to the Symphony T-stop (3 stops). Come out of the station and turn right. Walk one block (Burger King will be on your right) and turn left onto Gainsborough St. Jordan Hall is right there. Currently, construction is taking place on the Hall, so look for the building covered in black mesh.

The train costs $2.00 for a one way trip.

If you would like to lead a session or facilitate a discussion, please click the following link and fill out the provided form. We will take the information you provide and schedule your session in a room. Once we have several sessions in place, we will publish the locations of these sessions within the BLC09 group on NL Connect, and we will post them at BLC. If you are not a part of the BLC09 group on NL Connect, please join us now.

We hope that you find these sessions to be a beneficial part of your experience.

Click here to go to the form.

In preparation for BLC and for those who are waiting to register, we have an important deadline approaching that we will remind you of below. In this month’s newsletter, we will discuss:

• the release of our BLC09 conference program
• BLC09 goes mobile
• the deadline for BLC09 discounted hotel rates
• BLC09 daily rates
• two interesting search tools

BLC09 Conference Program has been Released
Our BLC09 conference program has been released and is available from our conference page. As always, the program highlights need to know information, conference schedule, special events and of course all session descriptions.

In recent weeks, we have made several program additions that we are particularly excited about. A few of these additions include:

David Kirkpatrick, current Chairman and Executive Managing Officer of Plymouth Rock Studios and former President of Paramount Pictures, will be delivering a special keynote on Thursday afternoon entitled The Future of Story in a Snack Culture World.

Learn more about David.

Jeff Utecht, Elementary Technology and Learning Coordinator for the International School, Bangkok, Thailand and author of the blog The Thinking Stick will be delivering sessions entitled Beyond E-mail: Communication with your Web Community and Moving from Consumers to Producers of Knowledge: What the Web is Really About.

Learn more about Jeff.

Carrie Kotcho, Education Technologist, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. Carrie will be delivering sessions entitled Snapshots in Time and OurStory: American History Stories and Activities You Can Do Together.

Learn more about Carrie

To learn more about these presenters and more, we invite you to preview our BLC09 program.

Click here to view the entire program.

BLC09 Goes Mobile
Along with the release of our conference program, we are also excited to share the iPhone friendly version as well. This mobile BLC09 program gives you all of the same information as our regular format program, but in an easy pocket-sized format.

While the mobile version was designed with the iPhone in mind, it is a Web page, so it should be readable on other Web enabled phones as well (we have gotten a report that the site looks great on a Blackberry). Hopefully G1 users, Palm Pre users and others will enjoy the same experience.

To access the program, visit http://www.novemberlearning.com/blc09mobile on your phone. When you get there, if you have an iPhone, tap the plus sign at the bottom of the screen and select Add to Home Screen. From then on, the program will be only a click away. We hope you enjoy this tool.

Deadline on BLC09 Hotel Rates
Last reminder. If you have not yet reserved your room for BLC09, please do so before July 8th. After that date, room pricing will increase significantly. Information about the hotel and a link to the hotel registration site can be found on our Web site.

Click here to view hotel information and to register.

Announcing BLC09 Daily Rates
We have recently been asked about the possibility of offering daily rates for individuals who might only be able to make one or two days of the conference. Our answer, “of course.” If you choose to use this option, simply visit our regular registration page. You will find an area where you can select one or two days. Each day will cost $250.

Of course, we would love to have you all three days as well.

Click here to register.

Two Interesting Search Tools to Explore
We have recently been introduced to two interesting search tools. We encourage you to give them a try.

Twoogle was originally a search tool that allowed users to search Twitter and Google simultaneously. Now, it allows users to search Google, Twitter and more from one location. You can often find some interesting connections within the results.

Click here to try Twoogle.

Yolink is a Firefox add on that allows a user to get a peek into the links of a given site based on a keyword. You can use this tool in a variety of ways. For example, after installing this tool, run a normal Google search for “climate change.” When you get your results, click the search links button in the yolink toolbar to get a preview of the results. Or, visit novemberlearning.com and then once the page is displayed, type books into the yolink search bar. Yolink will scour the site in search of mentions of our books. Yolink has other options as well. Take a look.

Click here to download the Yolink add on for Firefox.

Stay Up-to-Date with November Learning
Be sure not to miss the latest announcements and podcasts from the November Learning team. Below are links that you can use to subscribe to NL Connect, our Web site’s RSS feed, November Learning Twitter account and our November Learning Podcast series.

Join us on NL Connect
Subscribe to our Web site
Subscribe to our podcast series in iTunes
Follow us on Twitter

For more information about BLC09 and to register, visit novemberlearning.com/blc.

EduBloggerCon is based on the idea of an “unconference,” and is being organized by its participants in real time using a wiki. Another way to describe this event is as a “collaborative conference,” where the conference attendees help to build and create a terrific learning experience. The sessions developed for EduBloggerCon will be based on the submissions of sessions that attendees have indicated they are willing to facilitate or would like to learn about.

To learn more about EduBloggerCon, visit this site.

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Pre-conferences:

July 24 – 26, 2011

Main Conference:

July 27 – 29, 2011

Location:

Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Tower in Boston, MA
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Main Conference Prices

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Registration includes daily continental breakfast. Hotel costs are not included.

• $695 – Until March 31
• $745 – April 1 to July 2
• $795 – After July 2

Team Discount Prices

Register a team and save! A $75 savings on each registration is available to teams of 6 or more.

• $620 – Until March 31
• $670 – April 1 to July 2
• $720 – After July 2

Teams do not have to be affiliated with a specific organization. Build your with anyone from around the world! (Discount applies to main conference registration only.)

Room Prices

The cost for each room at the Park Plaza is $199 for this event. Reserve your room!