My 3 takeaways from #ISTE11

1.  “Technology should be like oxygen.” (Chris Lehmann, Keynote) Even though technology at #iste11 was like oxygen (it was everywhere) we have a ways to go in making it like oxygen in our schools.  Just imagine if we had the same conference, but there was no ipad/iphone app and all you had was the paper [...]

ISTE TIP #1: Poster Presentations

The poster presentations at ISTE are great and you will undoubtedly get more out of them than sitting in a concurrent session because you will actually get to talk to the presenter and have your specific questions answered (rather than just sitting and listening to a presentation). I did a poster presentation back at NECC [...]

Mondays Sessions at ISTE11

Here is what appeals to me on Monday at ISTE 2011.  What sessions are you attending?  Too many great topics to pick from! 8:30-9:30am Learning with Mobile Technologies: Rethinking Teacher Practice through Work Flow [Research Paper; Roundtable] Location: PACC 105B, Table 9 Intertwining Digital Content and 1-to-1 Laptop Learning Environment [Research Paper; Roundtable] Location: PACC [...]

Along for the Ride

Coming out of ISTE 2010, perhaps wondering if we need evolution or revolution is too presumptuous of us in education.  We live in times of incredible not incremental change and I think that changes around education actually (and as scary as it sounds)  impact us in education  more than the changes we ourselves are  attempting  within education.  I think all any educator can hope to [...]

ISTE’s Closing Keynote – Jeff Piontek

Disclaimer – I voted for Chris Lehmann and was disappointed that he didn’t get it.  I had (just like a lot of people) no idea who Jeff Piontek was.  I sincerely hope that ISTE retains and expands the format of the voting for the keynote and makes the whole thing more transparent. First, let’s be [...]

My TEDxDenverEd Experience

This was my second TED experience having been to the one for educators in NYC.  I think the way I look at TEDxDenverEd is very different the second time around;  I know what it is and what it isn’t. Three excellent reviews of TEDxDenverEdxDenver were: http://davidwees.com/content/participating-TEDxDenverEdxdenvered-tonight http://edtechworkshop.blogspot.com/2010/06/few-thoughts-after-ted.html http://papergraders.blogspot.com/2010/06/elephant-in-room-at-tedx-denver-ed.html I definitely think TED is a day [...]

ISTE – The Must Read Comment

This is such an amazing comment to a post by @smartinez on the Generation Yes Blog.  The most powerful prose I read all week coming out of the ISTE conference. I wonder if everyone who’s doing a presentation could really reflect on it. “Stefanie Blouin says: June 28, 2010 at 4:24 pm My parallel noticing [...]

My Monday ISTE Wrap-up

This is the first conference I have been to where I didn’t sit in any session all day.  I tried to sit in sessions, but the round table sessions were all booked and I found the concurrent sessions in the ballrooms to be too large and impersonal.  I’m wondering if those ballroom sessions are good [...]

My ISTE Tip #2 – The Participants

Remember that the people sitting next to you may know more than the presenters in front of you.  By choosing a session, you are opening yourself up to a group of like-minded individuals with whom you can connect and through the triangulation of the knowledge in that room you can hopefully come to a greater [...]

My ISTE Tip # 1 – Poster Presentations

Don’t miss the poster presentations!  ISTE always seems to hide them away.  Make it a point of scheduling 15 minutes during the time of each poster presentation to walk through them and be sure you know the ones you are interested in, in advance.   A lot of times the ideas in the poster presentations are [...]

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