Last day of the conference ... big door prize day ... or so I hear. Session at 8am on creating a Moodle.org site, a pretty cool online classroom site I'm thinking about implementing for TAKS, more on this later. There was this one guy that came in late, sat in listening and taking notes then, with five minutes left in the session and our speaker on a role ... he asks a blindingly brilliant question that brings everything to a stop. He asks "I occurs to me that you have not yet shown us how to make a page from scratch. Can you please show us?" This just bring everyone to a stop. The speaker tells him that's what we've been doing! He nods his head and we end the session.
From here, I went to explore the exhibits for the final time ... talked to some guys about an online calender hosting site which would be better than MS Office.
After that, down to the ballroom for the closing session. The speaker was Dr. Robert Ballard, the guy who found evidence of plate tectonics, underwater sea vents, or black smokers, and the Titanic. Really good session about his Jason Project and how they are live streaming deep sea exploration to thousands of kids in public schools.
There was a plethera of door prizes ... none of which I was alowed to take home. The best one was a $7500 Promethean classroom whith Promethean Board and attached projector, 34 active votes and free training. Wouldn't have minded that. Oh well. I did sign up to win one of 50 iPods at the vender exhibits. Probably only get junk mail.
After the convention came to a close (12:00) and before I flew out (5:20) we stopped to eat at a Mongolian grill down town and killed 4 hours at the Texas History Museum. It was there I heard the quote of the year from a 10 year old boy. He looks at his mom and says "Wow, it's like I'm surrounded by history!"
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