I’m only on Day 3 of FETC 2015, and it’s already been an amazing whirlwind of awesomeness. I’ll be writing more detailed reflection posts when I get back to Tampa, since I know I’m only going to have bits and spurts of time for blogging while I’m here. Day 1, January 20, 2014 On Day … Read more
This year marked my fifth year at the Florida Association for Media in Education conference. I have to say that this year was definitely my best FAME experience yet. We had an amazing slew of awesome guests, a fabulous keynote speaker (my friend, Tiffany Whitehead) and it was my first time presenting at a conference. … Read more
When I first got into education, I thought of networking as something that only people in big businesses did. It was an ugly word, with sleazy, self-serving connotations. Fast forward a few years, and I realized that my favorite thing about going to conferences was getting to hang out with like-minded, passionate, inspiring educators. I … Read more
I’ve been feeling generally inspired since leaving ISTE three weeks ago, and I’m still working on processing everything. My takeaways from ISTE don’t really focus on awesome new tech I want to integrate (though I saw some cool stuff) or amazing things that I learned in sessions (though there was plenty of that too). What … Read more
A little slow on getting this one together – after ISTE wrapped up, I needed a little decompression time. This is my last of the daily recaps of ISTE – soon I’ll be posting my takeaways/action plans, etc. The last day of ISTE started out with the SIGLIB keynote and breakfast. Jennifer LaGarde delivered … Read more
Wow, ISTE feels like a whirlwind. There’s been so much good stuff and so many ideas in the last couple of days; it’s going to take a while to process it all. But for now I’ll just focus on one day. I was exhausted going into this day of ISTE, so I decided not to … Read more
So much going on! So much learning! Started this day in the Digital Age Library Playground. I’d never been to a presentation of this style – it’s similar to poster sessions. Several stations are set up with computers and presentation tools, and different people present on different topics throughout the playground. You can stay at … Read more
Now I understand what everyone means when they say that a big international conference like this can be overwhelming. Wow! This conference is insanely huge, and insanely crowded. I’m really glad that I had three spare hours on Saturday morning to just explore and get my bearings. I got dropped off at the conference … Read more
Back in January, I enjoyed the amazing privilege of going to FETC in Orlando. I have attended FETC twice before, once where I went to a few sessions, once where I just hit the vendor hall. But this was my first year attending where I was on Twitter, where I was beginning to get just … Read more
Just before Thanksgiving break, I attended my state’s media specialists conference, FAME (Florida Association for Media in Education). It was an amazing, enlightening experience. I got to mingle and network with other library professionals, attend some great breakout sessions and workshops, and meet up with some fabulous authors. I look forward to this conference every … Read more