Teryl and I struggled most of the morning trying to get wifi connections working, videos linked correctly, and inviting friends to join us via Skype or Twitter for our TETC session on ways to use Discovery Streaming in the classroom.
We spent our lunch hour doing a mini training with a few friends. We looked at Photo Story 3, Twitter, Audacity, Animoto, Slideshare, and more. We decided next year we might just set up a training in the hallway and see how many people would stop by!
Teryl brought 40 brochures and 20 DVDs to give away to attendees. We both thought this would be way more than we needed. Honestly, I thought it would be a success if we had 8 or 10 people come by to our session. Not because we aren’t good, mind you. There are just a lot of sessions going on.
Our room had 70 chairs. We had 82 people crammed into the room. This fact was punctuated by the “Session Full” sign posted on our billboard outside the door. We were gobsmacked! We were both so blown away that I totally forgot to take pictures!
Got to go for now. Sitting in a Web 2.0 session hosted by Apple.
Okay, I’ve been at TETC for an entire morning, and there just isn’t much happening. There were a lot of good-sounding sessions yesterday, and some more this afternoon (Teryl and me not included, of course). I have never heard of this keynote speaker, so I decided to blow that off and look around the exhibit hall. I got there just before they closed it for the keynote speaker!
I did have enough time to walk around and realize that there just were not that many exhibitors here. I’m going to try to pick up some information later today from those that look interesting. I did get some information from a company called TextHelp, a text reader for struggling readers available on a USB drive. What did I like best about it? It has a phonetic dictionary. Kids that write “fizix” will get all kinds of “fizz” words in Microsoft Word. However, HelpText finds “physics” to show kids how to really spell the word. Cool! I registered to win a copy for my school, so we’ll let you know how that goes!
That’s all for now. Let’s get lunch!
Last week we posted that Teryl and I would like to put together a DEN gathering tonight (Thursday, Nov 29th) at Caffeine, a local wifi hotspot. However, because no one has thus far responded to that post indicating that they would like to join us, we have decided to cancel the event. We realize we got our information out late, and we apologize for that.
If you are at TETC, come by and see us during our session at 2:30 today!
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