Keynote and Opening Session in the Exhibit Hall

by Paul

I've been to a few FETCs over the past 10 years. This year's Keynote by Reed Timmer was very interesting, if not directly relevant to educational technology. I was able to sit with Steve (whose posts are listed here), so we got caught up on the goings-on at our respective schools. The topic, storm chasing, was very engaging. I did copy down this website and plan to check it out later:

http://discoveryeducation.com/Reed-at-FETC

Discovery Education does a great job with education products, so I'm sure this website will have some interesting resources.

After several years walking the exhibit hall I'm getting pretty good at doing a once-over on the first night, then going back to check out promising booths. Is it a sign that our school is fairly well-equipped if I don't feel an urgent need to go back tomorrow?

I talked to a guy about Moodle, which I'll follow up on. I wonder if any readers out there have used it and can comment? I think we might be ready to graduate to Moodle after using Google Docs and Open Office with Dropbox for a few months. Crawl, then walk, then run... We're just getting started with 1:1 using Netbooks, so lots of learning to do first.

Well, I'm having my beer "on the District" and, so far, I'm all alone. Anybody coming?

Signing off for tonight....