Tim Lauer and I are going to be presenting a six-hour workshop this year at NECC entitled, "Mashups: Making Web Technologies Work for You ." This is the fourth year in a row now that Tim and I will be co-presenting a workshop and our second full-day experience. Last year our workshop covered advanced weblogging tools. It went pretty well, but as is so often the case with Web-centric workshops, the lack of bandwidth and a stable connection hurt us.
Regardless, I'm quite excited about this year's topic as it affords us the opportunity to dicuss a number of Web 2.0 tools and how they can be integrated into existing Websites (or incorportated more robustly into CMS sites like those driven by Drupal). We haven't nailed down our final list of tools - I would imagine we'll cover some of the basic mashup tools (e.g. badges and the like) and do some more advance work like those having to do with Google Maps.
Despite the assurances of ISTE that we'll be in a lab that is setup for "heavy traffic" I'm sure this year I'll have a local copy of the site running on XAMPP so when the network collapses, we'll have a ready backup...
