Hello San Antonio, home of the Alamo, and ISTE 2013. What a cool place. So nice to meet Charity again. I met her on Twitter and as a SEE, then F2F at the SES in Colorado a couple weeks prior to ISTE. She introduced my to google glasses.

I wonder what our exams will mean when everyone has these glasses! what kind of freedom will we have to innovate when the tests are minimized?

I got to meet David Warlick in person again after 7 years. We originally met in Fredericton and I told him about the Shark project. He has been using that example in his talks ever since. I have so many new things for him now.

Microsoft gave away 10000 Microsoft Surfaces. I got mine. Microsoft could have a real’ chance to infiltrate the Education realm with this one. If they can win in schools, they can win everywhere.

The coolest part of ISTE for me was spending time in the SCC, the SMART Collaborative Classroom and the Spotlight Talk. I was preaching about how SMART Boards are to be student centered tools. we should not be asking questions about how to get 1-1 technology into the hands of students. That will happen despite us shortly. The much more pressing issue is going to be, what will school look like when it happens? Will collaboration and communication increase! well in some ways, but not in others. in the business world, collaboration looks like a divide and conquer where experts get to apply their power for the good of a final product. But in school, the product is much less important than the process. if that is so, individual technology does not afford the same kind of group think. Smartboard do…

I also had a Spotlight talk when I gave examples of 21C Projects. the VP’s of major companies were only able to attract 50 in a venue ready for thousands. I had 140 people attended my talk. Not bad.