The Tennessee Educational Technology Conference (TETC) will be held in Nashville, TN, from December 10 to 12 at the Nashville Convention Center. This year we have the wonderful opportunity to have THE Hall Davidson as a keynote speaker. Yes, the DEN’s original Rock Star will be our very special guest.In addition, I just received word that my presentation on Using Skype in the Classroom was accepted! Final details will be posted later. The DEN LC has more proposals awaiting approval as well, so look for those details at a later date.You can register for TETC here.
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.
This is another brief shout out to all DEN members attending TETC the week after Thanksgiving in Nashville. I’ve mentioned already that Teryl Magee and I will be presenting. Then, as I was looking through the very long list of fantastic sessions, I realized one of the tech guys from my school district is also presenting.
So…..
Are you a DEN member that is presenting at TETC? If so, add your session title and time as a comment to this blog. We would love to come support you! BTW, Teryl and I are presenting Thursday at 2:30!
That’s right, the Tennessee DEN Leadership Council is organizing a social gathering for DEN members attending TETC in Nashville. We are still organizing the date, time, and place, so check back over the weekend.
Here are the details we do have:
- We are meeting at a wifi-enabled coffee shop, so bring your laptops! We would like to exchange some information while there.
- This is a social event, so if you want to bring a non-DEN member feel free! We will make a brief presentation about the benefits of the DEN in Tennessee.
- We will need you to sign up to come. Right now, we feel comfortable taking the first 20 to sign up. That pretty much fits our budget.
Watch this space for more information!
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