Friday, August 17, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
It wasn't just us!
This is as far as we got before we gave up. They weren't letting anyone else into the aquarium until people came out. People coming out suggested that sardines swimming in the tanks had a good laugh at the people sardines packed into the aquarium. But there was no special treatment for anyone getting in. Standing behind us in line was Kurt Steinhaus, immediate Past president of ISTE and his wife. We had a good chat with them as Kurt had been to New Zealand. We told him that we had set ourselves the task of talking to someone from each state in the US and that we were concerned about finding people from Alaska. He wished us well. The next morning during a break he found us and said that he had found someone from Alaska and told them about us, as well as giving or descriptions. Kurt was really friendly and made us feel very welcome at the conference.
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Post Keynote Mayhem!
Following the keynote there was a reception to be held at the Atlanta Aquarium. Someone hadn't done their maths or possibly given too much thought tothe logistics. This was my real first experience of the notion "to queue". Yep, we haven't got to the building yet and the line goes right around the building in two different directions.
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Opening Keynote
Andrew Zolli, Futurist was the opening key note speaker. I podcast of this session can be viewed here. In this session Andrew promoted the importance of creativity and innovation in learning. He highlighted key factors that are shaping our world in the next 10 to 20 years. He argued that the whole of civilisation is shifting rapidly with a digital divide being created by what is possible and what is fundable. He believes that in the future virtually anything that can be done now a computer will be doing so what does that leave us?
He believes there will be five things which will define tomorrow’s world.
1. Demographics.
2. Environment Altitudes and Values.
3. Learning place.
4. Coping with Choice and Complexity
5. Redefining Literacy.
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Conference Opening
Atlanta Drumline opened the conference. They were fantastic. I have a short video captured from our seats which doesn't do it justice. We saw another group playing at the baseball game later that week.
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The Conference
The conference is very large compared to what we are use to back in
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Olympic Park
We walk down to the conference venue which is about 8 blocks away. Most people catch the bus which we as kiwis find amusing. It takes just as long as walking. Maybe it has something to do with the air quality or personal safety? Not sure . We feel very safe walking during the day and at night.
Bridget jumped into the fountain then couldn't get out. This is in Olympic Park which is a beautiful park next to the convention centre
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The Hilton
We get to our hotel room to find two double beds for the three of us. Bridget is not looking too happy about this. So I head on down to the lobby to sort it out. Socratic questioning came it to play as I asked Kathy behind the counter, how are we going to solve this problem that is going to work for all of us? We are offered a parlour room??? with rollaways. Not convinced I ask to see a photo. It turns out it is the middle section (lounge) of one of the suites on the top floor. Its three times the size of the room we had. To compensate us for the rollaways (I assume) we are charged $99 / night for the three of us as well as access to the corporate lounge for breakfast and evening nibbles. We were being charged $240 night and breakfast was on top. Fazza is in awe. we are very happy. A photo doesn't do it justice.
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Atlanta
We have a 5 hour flight to
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San Francisco
I need to say that
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