My Iste 2018 Experience - Part TWO: The Grand Expo hall

The Exhibition hall is the biggest sales yard I have ever been too!  There are over 5,000 people involved in presenting and showcasing the latest digital tools and technology for the future of education and there was not enough time to see even half of the exhibitions!  Below are some of the awesome stalls I had a chance to visit which I found exciting and mind-blowing at the same time.  Much of what was shown were things that could change and alter systems in our teaching and learning and which I thought could be more relevant for our senior leaders and board members to address (thankfully we had the right experts with us).  I took a picture of my crazy collection of swag at the end and I am thankful for the opportunity to see where the future of teaching and learning is heading.

We made our Wonder Workshop Dash toy shoot a 3 pointer!

Project Unicorn was one of my favourite exhibitions

 Some Google time

Good to see I can use my SMART board properly now!

Thanks for the goody bag Microsoft!

Putting our photo on the board as the only Polynesians!

A really interesting presentation that supports students creating a digital family tree.

Using avatars in real time.

Hapara in the house!

My collection of swag (I forgot to add another couple of t-shirts darnit)

A visit from our Canadian friends

Today we had a visit from Wayne Poncia, who is the Chief Product Officer at Hapara, and a group of teachers from Canada who were interested in connecting with our school to develop a Global science action project.  In 2010, Hapara started right here in our Manaiakalani cluster and so we felt excited about developing a relationship that was innovative and collaborative.

We talked about the initial stages of collaborating on a project that essentially would see our students connecting to solve real world 'wicked' problems with groups of students from schools in Canada, the U.S and other countries.  We brainstormed what this could looked like and put together a few ideas that we would go away and work on.  We then took our visitors around the school and they saw how engaged our students were in their learning using teacher dashboard and workspace.  Many of our teachers use Hapara workspace as their teaching and learning tool.  At the end of the visit, our guests left feeling positive and looking forward to connecting and collaborating more with our students in the future.

Hinerau Anderson shows our visitors how she uses dashboard