I don't go to conferences often anymore. It's not because there is absolutely no money, I don't find it all that useful in the land of hyper connectivity. There is a great deal you can get out of a Google Reader and a Twitter Feed. Times is also an issue. Online if something isn't useful, you can scan it and move on. At a conference you're liable to sink 20 minutes into a session before you cut bait and by then it hardly pays to just into another session, because it's likely half-way done by that point in time. I want to want to go back to conferences, but what I want to hear is what you are doing with it in your school? Let me give you some examples. Two years ago, I went to a conference called SLATE here in Wisconsin. The conference was fine, but one annoyance was I watched Scott McLeod's Did You Know: Shift Happens video at every session. Really? There were two sessions that stick out in my head from that day, one incredibly useful because it was abou...