I am woefully behind in my blog posting about
ISTE &
Edubloggercon from last month. I had no idea how fast August would get here! My overall impressions of ISTE & EBC are pretty mixed. Here is my Pro/Con list from this year (or should I call it + / Delta ?)
Pros:
- Getting to Meet People
- Shuttle to convention center from hotel
- Traveling by yourself - setting your own schedule
- Enjoyed EBC and the Edubloggers Cafe
Cons:
- Having to Meet People
- Hotel 20 minutes away from anybody, anywhere
- No rental car
- Traveling by yourself - lonely
- Didn't get a lot out of formal sessions
- Edubloggercon tacked about 2 extra days to the conf experience. Making 6 days total away from home
So what does this mean? Well, I'll be traveling to
Educause this October, a higher ed tech conference. It will be interesting to see the differences between the two. Part of the issue is that I seem to live in this in-between world. I'm not quite K-12, but not quite Higher Ed either. What I do know is that a conference is all about what you put into it, and maybe I just didn't put enough into ISTE this year.
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