ISTE 2010--Monday Morning

ISTE 2010 provides bus transportation every 15 minutes or so from area hotels, making the trip each day much faster. Upon arrival today, I first explored the Poster area near the front of this monstrous complex called the Colorado Convention Center.

These particular displays change every day, and today’s posters share projects that have won HP (Hewlett Packard) grants. The “posters” are actually informal presentations with examples of student work, outcomes of the programs instituted, resources created, and data collected as part of the grant Seriously, many of you are doing project like this in your classrooms. The difference is that in most cases, the grants were funded to those that showed collaborative efforts, especially when the idea became a whole school project. I was a relief and excited to see that their work was really something that could be accomplished, even in our district schools.

I then moved on to a SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting for Online Learning (SIGOL). There are so many SIGs that form smaller groups of the ISTE family, and even if you are not an ISTE member, you can access the SIG wikis that provide information specifically designed for that group. The SIG meetings provide an opportunity to network and are similar to birds-of-a-feather sessions. This link contains a list of many ISTE SIGs, and here are a few wiki links you might want to explore:

SIGMS for Media Specialists
SIGOL for Online Learning


And finally, I was reminded in one presentation of Kerpoof. Check it out!