It all started with an email from Events@techlearning.com which was sent to my mailbox on Thursday, 10/18/12 at around noon. [Backstep: to get that email, I had to be signed up with Tech&Learning to receive their enews and top stories via email –this was before I considered getting RSS feeds.] It said:
Tune in this Friday, October 19 to Tech Forum Live Online, Tech & Learning's live broadcast stream direct from Tech Forum New York. Join this preeminent group of education leaders as they tackle some of the most pressing, and promising, issues for today's schools. The schedule includes:
- Tools for Education Professionals - 9:30-10:40 am Presenters: David Andrade, Sal Contes and Nancy Caramanico Looking for the best apps and Web 2.0 tools for planning, communicating, and building your own learning community? Dubious about tweeting or social networking as professional endeavors? Our panelists will share their favorite productivity tools for teachers and administrators and then invite you to do the same."
“Great” I said. [I even created a tiny URL for the LiveStream URL and shared it as a Tweet.] The info immediately went on my calendar.
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| www.livestream.com/techlearning |
And, a few minutes before 9:30 on conference day, I opened the link to the broadcast. [As with any technology, there were glitches with the audio and the video; but they were soon remediated.]
In that hour, I learned about a number of tools: Evernote, Twitter, Celly, Google Voice, Edmodo and Audioboo. For those of you who missed it, you can get the session outline from GoogleDocs.
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