Today's entry comes live from Hershey, PA for Day 1 of the PETE&C conference. To those who haven't heard the acronym, PETE&C stands for Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference. Now its 10th year, the conference serves as a place for tech directors to learn about new instructional strategies, teachers to share their innovative technology strategies with others, and vendors to demo all of the new hardware and software available for districts going forward. And, of course, it's held in Hershey, PA where chocolate falls from the sky instead of snow. It promises to be an exciting couple of days.
I had the chance to attend last year as a participant where I attended a dozen sessions on flipped classrooms, gamed-based learning, and other uses of mobile technologies. It was this conference that helped me assemble my working model for the game-based system I use in my senior classes this school year. In a "circle of life" style moment, I'm back this year as a presenter to share what I've been working on and help influence and inspire others. I'm hoping to get even more ideas so I can further improve the game-based class structure for next year's version. There's been a lot of good things, but there's still a lot of work to go.
I'll keep everyone posted what I learn, and hopefully I'll avoid making myself sick from candy in the first night. The sweetest place on earth is nothing with which to mess.
I had the chance to attend last year as a participant where I attended a dozen sessions on flipped classrooms, gamed-based learning, and other uses of mobile technologies. It was this conference that helped me assemble my working model for the game-based system I use in my senior classes this school year. In a "circle of life" style moment, I'm back this year as a presenter to share what I've been working on and help influence and inspire others. I'm hoping to get even more ideas so I can further improve the game-based class structure for next year's version. There's been a lot of good things, but there's still a lot of work to go.
I'll keep everyone posted what I learn, and hopefully I'll avoid making myself sick from candy in the first night. The sweetest place on earth is nothing with which to mess.
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