A headfull – Smart Classrooms 2009 Innovation Expo
Posted by shanetechteach on September 11, 2009
This has been one heck of a week, and my head is swimming with so much information and ideas that I am sure it will take me awhile to sort it all out. The Smart Classrooms Innovation Expo is the premiere event for the Smart Classrooms strategy within our organisation. Two days of presentations from current practitioners and international thinkers has inspired and informed. This year the conference organisers actively promoted the use of Twitter as a backchannel, and the tweets came strong and fast.
Thanks to the Twitter backchannel, I could tag tweets from presentations I was not attending. This will ultimately enable me to learn more than I could have if a backchannel did not exist. I’m sure it will take me a good couple of weeks to sort through the tweets, notes and bookmarks I’ve tagged as the conference progressed. I was reasonable happy with my choices of presentations – a balance between supporting friends and accessing what I was keen on learning. My top sessions were Kristine Kopelke’s building flash applications for mobile devices and Stephen Heppel discussing the concept of agile learning. Both awesome.
If you wish to sort through my notes (if you are not patient enough to wait for me to sort through them) then access the following;
After the Innovation Expo, I was fortunate enough to attend a MasterClass for Smart Classrooms teacher award winners. Only 12 award winners were announced from across the state so needless to say I was in pretty special company. Each of the award winners is inspirational in their own right, and working with them over the last two days has motivated me to further the development of digital pedagogy and capability within my own school.
As I process this wealth of information I know I will develop my own abilities and understanding, leading towards improving my personal performance.
