{"id":10906,"date":"2013-10-24T00:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:12:40","slug":"bring-it-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2013\/10\/24\/bring-it-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring IT, Together!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"bringITtogether.ca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10907\" title=\"&quot;Bring IT! to the Marquee&quot; animated GIF by aforgrave\" alt=\"ecoo13_SCCN_marquee\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ecoo13_SCCN_marquee.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After many months of planning, preparation, and hard work, the 34th annual conference of the <a title=\"ECOO | Educational Computing Organization of Ontario\" href=\"http:\/\/ecoo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Computing Organization of Ontario<\/a> (ECOO) is underway. Following regular increases in yearly attendance in recent years, the decision was made to move the conference to a larger venue, resulting in our hosting of <strong>#ecoo13<\/strong> &nbsp;in Niagara Falls, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at the conference centre yesterday evening, it was not long until darkness fell and I had an opportunity to appreciate the marquee on display outside the <a title=\"Falls Convenations, Scotiabank Convention Centre of Niagara\" href=\"http:\/\/fallsconventions.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScotiaBank Convention Centre of Niagara<\/a> (SCCN) &#8212; no one image fully captured the full message or the impact of the marquee. Having spent considerable time working on the branding and promotion of the conference (<a title=\"#ecoo13 bringITtogether.ca #oasboict13\" href=\"http:\/\/bringITtogether.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bringITtogether.ca<\/a>), it was gratifying to see the culmination of things.<\/p>\n<p><em>An Animated GIF was called for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following a series of full-day Wednesday Workshops today, we move ahead to two days of core conference session &#8212; each day featuring 75+ sessions and events, as well as a series of social events. All told, over 250 educators will share their expertise with the 1300+ attendees (or more &#8212; on-site registrations continue) over the course of the three days.<\/p>\n<p>The full conference schedule of events is available and searchable on our <a title=\"&quot;Bring IT, Together&quot; schedule, on Lanyrd.com\" href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2013\/ecoo13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lanyrd<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many months of planning, preparation, and hard work, the 34th annual conference of the Educational Computing Organization of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[466,218,467,468,1078,469,667,669,668],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncat","tag-ecoo13","tag-animatedgif","tag-bring-it-together","tag-bringittogether-ca","tag-ds106","tag-educational-computing-organization-of-ontario","tag-niagara-falls","tag-sccn","tag-scotiabank-convention-centre-niagara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ecoo13_SCCN_marquee.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-2PU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12426,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions\/12426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}