I will try to keep this post shorter so you don't feel like nodding off halfway through it. :). Today was a day spent at mostly either Poster Sessions or on the Vendor floor. Oh my goodness, the vendor floor was intimidating and very big. It was full of familiar companies and products and many new ones. There were so many new, exiting and innovative demonstrations going on. It was hard to know which way to turn. Such amazing technology from Hover Cam http://www.thehovercam.com , Penveu http://www.penveu.com and PBS Learning Media http://www.pbslearningmedia.org.
Poster Sessions are like a smorgasbord of tables set up with innovative educators and some great projects that are being shared with everyone. Some tables I stopped at were Designing your Makerspace, Gamifying the Classroom and Creating Computer Games: Resources for Teachers and Students, Beyond talk: using Ted in the classroom!, and 6 free tools for dynamic & engaging professional learning. I scanned so many QR Codes today I saw things in black and white for a little while :).
I went to the Digital Library and Storytelling Playgrounds and really liked being able to see usage of technology directly related to the library and the classroom. I stopped by the Tabletop green screen in miniature. Pretty cool!
I then went to the QR Code table and saw how these can be used on books in the library. Neat!
Zombie Librarians was my last stop and we were informed that the University of Georgia has Zombie Librarians and they believe librarians should "be contagious". The motto is "Better dead, than Unread". I love that!!!!
I finished off the day with a session called The New and Improved Library is Digital Central. This was a panel discussion with 6 speakers in related
areas. One panelist Ty is a graduate student at Vanderbilt and does spatial design. He discussed new library designs in Chicago and the one being done in Nashville. Another panelist named Mark spoke of librarians as being connected and the digital/technological experts (yes we are). Finally, Mike from Common Sense Media spoke https://www.commonsensemedia.org and talked about digital tools for educators. Our school system is using this company to teach the students about digital citizenship. Through Common Sense Media, you can also use their sites Graphite http://www.graphite.org and Digital Passport https://digitalpassport.org/educator-registration. All are free to use and I highly recommend them. This company is uber awesome.
The day ended with an after-party for Purple Mash which is put out by 2Simple. What an amazing product to have in a school. An entire school system in Michigan uses this in all their schools and 95% of the schools in Britain use this program https://www.purplemash.com/#/ipad. Alas, this program is not free but still well worth looking in to.
Tomorrow will be another awesome day at ISTE. Sorry for the weird indention stuff, don't know what's up with that.
Until later.
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