This year was my first year at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association (SW TX PCA) conference. I heard about their Technical Writing area through a posting on the ATTW listserv. In the panel I was on, the focus was primarily pedagogical issues and enjoyed some really solid papers on using wikis in the classroom, measuring the time commitment for online teaching, and mine, which looked at scaffolding digital learning environments. Another track I really enjoyed was one that explored genre theory in video games and community building with micro-blogging tools such as Twitter. An added bonus was that the conference was right here in Albuquerque and the weather was wonderfully cooperative (sunny, high 60s, low 70s).