Last week I got to participate in my first ever LEA convocation, something that only happens every 3 years. At first I was overwhelmed and didn’t know what to expect.  I got in a day early.  As I was walking to familiarize myself with the lay of the land, I ran into Terry Schmidt.  It was a refreshing face to run into.  Terry is such a great guy with full of excitement for Lutheran Education.

As LEA started I knew there would be people I would know and I ran into some of them.  I was able to listen to Dr. Bull’s presentation on Media Literacies and then that night got to sit next to Dr. Bull and another college friend Jeremy Pekari a pastor.  The Skit Guys are always funny!

Later that night I decided and was urged to go to the Rock Bottom Brewery for the tweetup.  This was a bunch of Lutheran Educators who are on twitter (and a few others).  It was great to meet some of the individuals that I have converse with for the first time in person.  @kevcreutz @gilmorekendra @karacornejo @alhelmy are all great people and I am glad to get to know them better in person.  As always it is great to see @dawblack.

Friday was actually a nervous day for me, as I was going to be presenting also.  I really enjoyed sitting in the two sessions before mine and hear some twitter friends talk and even learn a thing or two.  Then came my presentation on Podcasts, I am always self-conscious about stuff I do, but I guess I did an ok job for some, I had some said they enjoyed it afterwards.    Here is a link to my presentation – http://prezi.com/_xptfwzaiay0/broadcast-your-podcast/

Both night the food was good, the speakers and other stuff was great.  The key to this conference though was the background conversations going on in the twitterverse world.  Which comes to the bad part of the conference, the lack of WiFi.  Connecting and conversing during and after the conference is KEY to a successful conference.  Even now, a week later we have new Lutheran educators on Twitter and we are still sharing thoughts and ideas.

This is just my thoughts, I liked LEA, and can’t wait for the next one in 2014!