Tuesday was another learning packed day. We started the day with the keynote speaker who was great. Her name is Jennie Magiera and she is a tech coordinator for a school district on the south side of Chicago. Her message was that teachers are wizards and is capable of finding genius in every child. Our next stop was to Tech4Learning booth in the Expo Hall where we presented. We showed fellow educators how we use Wixie with our classes in the computer lab. We had examples of the many projects that we have created in Wixie over several years. It was well received and we are going to collaborate with them again in August with a Back to School blog in the Creative Educator online magazine. Throughout the day we tried to make our way through the aisles of the Expo Hall. Some of our favorite things were:

Edmodo now has a free feature called "askmo.edmodo.com"- Boost your IQ. It is a collection of the millions of videos, articles, etc. that the users have posted.There is not as much for the younger learners but it is an endless resource for the Intermediate and Middle School teachers.

Pen Pal School was a great organization that links your class with a class in another country. They do the leg work for you and it can be a wonderful way for your class to connect with the world.

Google Expeditions is a resources to use with ipads that provides information about unlimited places in the world. It is free and has several QR codes that we can share if you are interested.

We found several resources for our first grade classrooms that we are excited to put to use.

We ate lunch with Joe and he is having a great conference. He has made great contacts and is full of ideas for our school and the lab. He is ready to get back and hit the ground running.

We were invited by Tech4Learning to join them for dinner. We brought Joe with us for dinner at Casa Rio on the Riverwalk. I think Joe enjoyed talking to some of the people there who were able to gove him some good advice.
The three of us walked to the San Fernando Cathedral in the Main Square of San Antonio for their light show. It was awesome! They project lights up onto the front of the cathedral and with the lights and music they tell the history of San Antonio. I will drop a picture into the blog when we get home. It is hard to describe how neat it was.
From there we headed to the Aztec Theater for the annual EdTech Karaoke night. As always, it was an interesting event. We stayed to hear the finalists and see a librarian from Georgia win singing Proud Mary. A good time was had by all!!

We are headed back to the convention center this morning for more before we head out to the airport. We will pass along more of our finds when we get home and organize our minds and papers.