Final Day of NECC 2009

This was an eventful final day at NECC for me. I attended some good sessions, including one by Dr. Lynell Burmark, author of Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn. Some of her work is included in UEN's course Effective Teaching with Visual Media. She talked about the importance of engaging our students' senses to make learning more powerful.

The highlight of the final day of the conference for me, though, was meeting some of my technology heroes: Jeff Vance, Jason Darby, and DT Holder of Clickteam. Clickteam is the company that developed and sells Multimedia Fusion and The Games Factory, which are two of the most revolutionary multimedia software products that (almost) no one has heard of. Jeff is the CEO of Clickteam USA. Multimedia Fusion and The Games Factory are programs that simplify the process of creating computer games (or other software applications) from the ground up. They make it possible to build your own complete computer game in as little as a couple of hours.

NECC 2009 has been a great conference and a wonderful experience.