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The Teaching Librarian volume 18, no. 2 7 and different groups attributed the exodus to different reasons. The last speaker was Wayne Hulley, the president of Canadian Effective Schools Incorporated. He saw the empty seats and altered his talk in a radical way that totally engaged the teachers fortunate (or committed, depending on your point of view) to hear him out. He ditched his slides, trimmed his talk, and in seven minutes had the audience laughing and eating out of the palm of his hand. When I tweeted about the event afterwards, I was able to remember more of what Mr. Hulley had said than any of the speakers that preceded him. He referenced the signs hanging around the ACC, joked about teacher tropes (such as the toughest job in education - being in charge of collecting money for the coffee fund), and articulated his message in an easy-to-remember fashion: SOS. For the teacher, the acronym stands for Save One Student; for the principal, it means Save One Staff, and for the superintendent or central administration, it equals Save One School. So what do these three disparate tales have to do with listening and speaking? Both listening and speaking well can be a challenge, although hearing a speaker who engages you makes the task easier. When I was a Tribes trainer, we spent a great deal of time examining the art of listening, and listening with your mind and heart as well as your ears. In those three examples above, I could have tuned out ("Where shall we go for lunch after church? / I wonder how often he works out to get muscles like that? / Who else will perform other than Nikki Yanofsky today?") but, if listeners meet speakers halfway, a wonderful exchange of ideas can occur. Enjoy the listening- and speaking-related articles in this issue and hopefully we'll "hear" from you soon! z [ting-guhL] [ling-goh] TingL Lingo wiki ( /`wIki/ wik-ee) A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing. That means that on typical wikis, anyone can edit anything at anytime. Fun! Because of how open most wikis are, many educators find them a bit tough to deal with. Wikis facilitate "the purposeful work of negotiating and creating truth" and they support the philosophy that "the quality of the collectively produced product is more important than owning the idea." weblogged.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Links. Will Richardson's Wiki. Will Richardson. (accessed: Novem- ber 23, 2010) Origin: Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995. wiki.org (wiki.org/). (2005-07-21) wiki. Dictionary.com. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Denis Howe. dictionary.reference.com/browse/wiki (accessed: October 18, 2010)