Running Into the Future of Education

I will start off my new edublog with a reposting of my top 6 take-aways from the ISTE11 conference which I just returned from. It was an amazing 4 days in Philly. So the last days have been filled with meeting lots of people... some new and some I already knew digitally (via Twitter and blogs), posters, presentations, discussions and the like. These are my 6 highlights so far: #6 - Walking around the exhibition hall and seeing presentations from many vendors including Google, Adobe, Livescribe and more. #5 - Volunteering at an ASK ME station on Sunday afternoon. After I finished I knew my way around this huge Philadelphia Convention Center. #4 - Attending sessions of all kinds, from ISTE Unplugged, Poster sessions, Google Educators talking about Google Apps for education, international initiatives of ISTE, Music and Tech (great presentation by people I follow on Twitter - lots of good ideas even for non music people), Learning Tools Family Feud (all the stuff was crowdsourced