This is a short note to let readers know that I'll be roaming around the country in the next few weeks. I'd love to meet some readers, so if you'll be around any of the events or locations listed below, please come find me and say hi!

• AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education - I'll be in Atlanta this week, October 28-30, attending my first-ever AAC& conference! I've been meaning to attend one forever, and I was happy to learn about this one. It's all about AI and higher education, so the topic is a great match to my current professional work. And it's in Atlanta, just four hours away by car from Nashville, so I'm driving--and staying with my brother and sister-in-law in Kennesaw! Oh, and I'll have a bunch of copies of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching to give away, so look for me and my "Ask me about AI-aware teaching" button to get one! [More info on the conference]
• New York Tech's Faculty Development Day - The following week, I'm giving the keynote at NYIT's fall faculty development event on Wednesday, November 4th. I'm on at 10:45am talking about AI-aware teaching, and I'm running a concurrent session at 12:15pm on using AI as an instructional assistant. (I'll definitely be sharing some examples of profs vibe-coding interactive learning materials, my current excitement.) [More info on the event]
• Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences - The next day, I'll be in Boston. leading a half-day workshop on AI-aware teaching for the faculty at Tufts University A&S. (Engineering faculty are invited, too, I hear.) I'm excited to spend a good chunk of time digging into this topic with faculty! This is, I think, my third time speaking at Tufts. The IRACDA program there had me in to talk to grad students and postdocs in spring 2025, and I keynoted their university-wide teaching conference way back in 2016!
• University of Georgia CTL National Speaker Series - The morning of November 10th, I'll be in Athens, Georgia, to give a talk hosted by the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning. The topic? Shocker, it's AI-aware teaching. And I just saw that the first 50 attendees to arrive will receive a free copy of the book! Way to go, CTL! UGA was one of the very first places I gave a talk after I started developing materials on classroom response systems ("clickers"). According to this announcement, that was in October 2007! [More info on the 2026 event]

Atlanta, New York, Boston, and Athens, all in less than three weeks! Hope to see you at one of those places.