ISTE 2018

I am part of a community of educators who love learning about technology. I am not an expert but I am learning online thanks to great teachers who have deepened their knowledge in technology and  teach online  sharing their  tricks for using some apps and web tools.

ISTE is an international event which is visited by many teachers and educators. Last year I could not follow any post or hashtags. This year I could and I really enjoyed being part of the group  of  people who were not at the conference in Chicago. The community has a name" #NOTATISTE and  educators have shared ideas, posts and interesting news about the event which is not online but thanks to modern technology we can learn about.

First of all I would like to say that thanks to Peggy George I could see more resources  which were presented in the conference. The Live Binder she has presented in one webinar  before the event made me think that this year I should be online. I followed the  Google Plus community online and it was great!

Click here to open this binder in a new window.





Shelly Terrell  has often talked about this event online and in her posts so I cannot but say that  these important educators have made a change in my  CPD.

 http://teacherrebootcamp.com/2018/06/19/iste18giveaways/

Kathleen Morris has also helped me enter this world, which is  new to me: she wrote a great post

 https://www.theedublogger.com/2018/06/11/notatiste-2018/

Social networks have been spreading news and interesting ideas :

Adobe Spark is one of my favourite  tools :

RT ClassTechTips: RT AdobeEdu: We're LIVE from #ISTE18 with Monica Burns of ClassTechTips. We'll be discussing Adobe Spark Classroom Activities and more! #NotAtISTE18 #NotAtISTE https://t.co/5CCInD59y6

— SimpleK12 (@SimpleK12) 26 giugno 2018

I wish to thank Pam Hubler for her interesting post where I could find most of the resources online I need to check:

https://www.spedtechgeek.com/edtech-blog/how-to-reduce-your-fomo-when-notatiste18


Shared ideas in some blogs which I have found online while I was checking the community today:

http://mustech.net/2018/06/notatiste18-fun-takeaways/


There are many tools which I would like to use and which I think might offer great teaching opportunities for  enhancing my students' learning:

https://wakelet.com/   mainly used for collecting resources

https://flipgrid.com/

I have just registered to Flipgrip which is now free, this was the great piece of news  which I had found online some days ago.

I will also try to learn more about  Google Apps as I do use most of them but  I am not an expert.
I have already appreciated the great use of  the new Google Sites to document student learning:

  https://sites.google.com/gtrainerdemo.prtaylor.ca/learning/home


Finally my video documenting my journey into ISTE 2018: I was not in Chicago but I have learnt a lot also from home:

   

This summer I will have thousands of documents and blogs  to read about as  I have bookmarked so many interesting posts and tweets.

Thanks to the community of the #NotAtIste18: without any help I would have never thought that  I could learn about  ISTE while living in Italy!!