Win a TI-Nspire graphing calculator!

Watch the video below and then answer the question “Why I love math” to win this top-o-the-line calculator (valued at $140) from our friends at Texas Instrument. If you happen to be at TCEA this week, you can catch up with them at booth 2271 and say hello.

Ok, if the title of this blog post doesn’t excite you, I’m not sure what will! Steve Dembo had an awesome presentation this year at FETC. His presentation was pretty entertaining, I have to say.

As much as we’ve been chatting out FETC and what a great time we had, I had the chance to experience something really unique. A tweet up. What’s a tweet up? Well, it’s an opportunity to meet up and hang out with our friends from Twitter.

First confession: I’ve been to a tweet up.
Second confession: It wasn’t anything to write home about.

As we all know, going to conferences is as much about learning at sessions as it is about meeting people and making connections.

Before I even stepped foot in the Orlando Convention Center for FETC, I had planned on attending Howie DiBlasi’s (@hdiblasi) spotlight session, “i-Create: Digital Projects for the 21st Century Classroom.”

This week has been crazy busy for a lot of us and FETC has been taking center stage but no need to worry. As usual, here are some of my favorite EdTech posts!

Blog Posts:
How a Retweet can make you look really stupid… By Jesper Isaksson

Ok, so it's not really live but I sat in a great session EARLY this morning with Tammy Worcester about technology time savers for teachers. I definitely want to share these great tools with you all so, check them out!

"The authors have done nothing less than provide a bold framework for designing a 21st century approach to education, an approach aimed at preparing all of our children to successfully..." Read more here

There has been a lot of talk about having a tweet up for the FETC and for those of you interested, we’ve set one up! We are so excited about FETC and to meet all of you, so please join us! Here are the details of the tweet up:

TGI Fridays (only 0.9 mi from the Convention Center!)
Tweet up begins at 5:45 P.M. on Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Address:
8955 International Drive
Orlando, Fl 32819

If you’re already using Twitter, don't skip over this post just yet. You might learn something new!

If you’re not or you are using it but you don't quite "get" it yet, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

In short, Twitter is an incredible tool for educators that will allow you to:

• Create or enhance your personal learning network (PLN) as a teacher
• Engage your students in ways that may not be possible with other, more traditional, teaching techniques.