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So I just came home from the awesome ISTE Affiliate reception with my friend Brenda Anderson and her hubby…all the states represented baby! Maryland’s own Dr. Judy Tomelden was there! I met a lot of awesome people..being on the ISTE board has been amazing and it’s only been 3 days!

I met the cool (and HOT!) guys from CUE…typical Cali guys – so good looking one was a hot ginger and another one looked like Nate Berkus …Oh and thanks über cute & cool Mike Lawrence of CUE my other new board memberfor extra tickets! [wink]

I met some AWEsome chicks from Wisconsin…newly elected affiliate executive board member (and adorable & smart Media Specialist!) Annette Smith and her Media Specialist friends!

I also sat at the international table with ISTE Executive Committee At-large Member & International Representative from Australia Ralph Leonard and a lovely educator from England …who asked me where all the parties are at ISTE and of course…there are a lot!… though lately i’m such a party-pooper liking to be back in my room by 9pm…but hey! IF you’re more hardcore than me and WANTED to party at ISTE the best two parties are TWEETUPS!

the official ISTE Tweetup at Bubba Gumps Tuesday night 6-8

WHERE: Bubba Gump’s (walking distance from the convention center)
1437 California Street, Denver CO (303) 623-4867
WHY: To have fun, unwind, and connect face-2-face with twitter friends!
FREE STUFF: We’ll be having raffles/door prizes…and a special chance to win a FLIP CAM!

and Tweet-Up Under the Stars #ISTE10 — Denver:

Have fun people! I’ll be at Bubba Gumps for sure!

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I met Lucy Gray last night at the TIE/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp and she was just lovely!…and seeing this preso above it’s like meeting another kindred tech spirit. (like our Geek Tribe family!) Must to give her a Geek Tribe ribbon! Now…i’ll shut up and encourage you to scroll through that slideshare again….and then suggest that you send it to someone back at home who couldn’t be at #lbc10, #ISTE10 or #ALA10.

I’m gonna be singing this same song at the sold out ISTE10 SIGMS Learning Tools Smackdown Tuesday 10am – our topic Network Building with IMCguy Chad Lehman. You can get a sneak peek 0n our wikipage and the visual imagery of our smack here!

i’m also thinking that this McCloud guy is a kindred spirit, too!

See all the great thoughts and tweets from his Leadership Bootcam session and some of my thoughts, too:
ScottElias “Schools use a prohibition approach instead of a DUI approach.” True story. /by @mcleod #lbc10

bengrey I have to wonder what % of the 1% of online safety issues could be resolved by giving kids access and teaching them to use it. #lbc10

gwynethjones @bengrey the kids who are “at-risk” on the interwebs are kids who are already “at-risk” – let’s Empower & teach Awareness not safety #lbc10
snbeach #lbc10 @McLeod Not trusting teachers with the Internet undermines trust.

budtheteacher Scott @mcleod’s question – “Are you treating technology differently than other disciplinary issues?” (We shouldn’t be.) #lbc10

gwynethjones When districts apply “lazy unthinking filtering” rather than thoughtful selective filtering they’re NOT TEACHING our kids to think! #lbc10

bkolani who will teach our kids to be _empowered user_, not just safe, appropriate, responsible user? #lbc10

all about this amazing talk!
Breakout Session Presenter:Dr. Scott McLeod, Associate Professor and Director, CASTLE, Iowa State University

Session Title: Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?

Session Description: Many school organizations say that they want to make technology-related progress for staff and students. Closer examination of their internal policies and decision-making reveals, however, that their actions often conflict with their rhetoric. In this session we will discuss some of the policy-related disconnects between technology integration / implementation efforts and administrative practice.

Other great tweets:

cnorris10 “Practice professional generosity and it will come back to you.” #lbc10
budtheteacher “Goal of education is to create a citizenry.” (Not a workforce.) – @chrislehmann #lbc10

bkolani School is not preparation for real life. It IS real life. @chrislehmann #lbc10

ISTE is such a wonderful place to have your world rocked by great ideas…mind opened by challenging thoughts….and meeting face to face people you’ve admired, learned from, and connected with only on the intarwebs!

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