1 PM GMT

Moderators: Scott Snyder, Lori Sheldon

We had a lively conversation! Some of the topics we discussed:

• Scott's presentation about Backchanneling, grade levels that would benefit, bringing out the shy kids, tools to use
• Blogging Buddies preso, benefits for pres-service teachers as well as students, not many pre-service teachers doing anything like that
• Sylvia Martinez's preso on Gaming: discussion of Scratch & fact there are higher level, authentic games out there...and kids can create those too!
• How people found out about the conference: Twitter!
• Adding our own markers to the map
• Ideas for getting sites and content unblocked or unfiltered
• Bandwidth concerns with web 2.0 tools
• Using tools with special needs students (Beth Lloyd's preso)
• Matt N's presentation about film making
• Getting equipment into the room: DonorsChoose, BestBuy Teach, DigitalWish.com, AdoptAClassroom.com
• Taking personal responsibility for professional development

Bouguets

• K12 Online Conference Site nicely laid out and easy to navigate
• 6 people back for a second year of the conference
• 1 person new to the conference
• people really seemed to like the 20 minute length

Brickbats

• Fireside chats...maybe have those a week after all the presentations have gone live