SALT Interactive Technologies Conference

I’ll be presenting a session at the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT) Interactive Technologies Conference in Virginia this month. It’s a group that I’ve enjoyed both speaking to and attending to before — lots of higher ed and government types, the sorts of folks that I don’t get to spend much time with.
I’m actually a higher ed escapee (six years on staff at a big university as I did a couple of degrees) and so it’s fun to mingle with the eggheads. The government types are interesting, as well. Not nearly as stuffy as you’d think, and some are doing some really amazing stuff — like the IRS, the DOD, and some other three-letter groups that you read about in the papers.
I’ll be doing a variation on my “Ring! Ring! Your Learners Are On The Phone!” session slanted specifically towards this audience, and I’m eager to see what they’ve been doing in the mLearning space. My presentations have been moving more to a “workshop” model lately, where I start the session off but usually end up getting lots of good information and feedback from people in the room who are already building tools and solutions.
This is much, much more interesting for me than just giving a speech for 60 minutes. And it really seems to be more intersting for the audience as well, if my sat scores can be believed.
There’s still time to register. And Arlington is lovely in August. If you’re a fried egg.