It was a busy Tuesday at T+L. I started of by going to a session presented by a crew from Rex Mill Middle School titled “High Tech Classrooms that Motivate and Challenge Digital Natives”. This high energy bunch kept us engaged and entertained. This was a great wake up session! It is nice to see a school full of innovative and passionate teachers using technology in great ways. “Don’t remediate
accelerate!” was a battle cry!
Since my fellow bloggers have commented on Paul Saffos keynote I won’t say anymore about that! I always love the opening General Session since we have an opportunity to see some student work during the film awards. It is nice to also see the first of the Video Salute Districts. It looks like there are some great things happening in the Avoca District in Illinois.
Later I attended a session about E-Discovery. Email and document retention is a hot topic in my district. One thing I learned in this session is that it is a confusing topic no matter what State you work in.
My last attended session was a CoSN CTO Forum “Leveraging Banned Technologies to Create Ubiquitous Learning Environments.” It could be wrapped up with a quote from my old buddy Scott McCleod (who was not there
just quoted) “Technology cannot be stopped and students will be served.”
The REAL end of the day was the Excellence Fair. Mary Ann and I were trying to remember how many of these we have done in a row and we came up with 8. This is always an activity we look forward too. We get a chance to meet teachers, administrators, board members, and technology advocates from all over the country. We ended the session exhausted but pleased that so many people stopped by to hear our professional development story. They asked great questions and we took away some new ideas and some new acquaintances.
