This year
ISTE was held in Philadelphia, June 23-26, 2019. The fact that G+ community, which hosted the NotAtISTE 'family' till last year, recently shut down along with the fact I felt burned out at the end of the school year made me unwilling to participate at the beginning. However, since I'm really addicted to twitter, which I consider a powerful source of Professional Development, I came across lots of tweets about ISTE19. I couldn't, therefore, resist the temptation to get some sneek peeks and eventually delve into the NotAtISTE experience. A well-organized site
https://notatiste.weebly.com/ was created by J.Wagner in order to facilitate NotAtISTE participants for 2019 and offer them a taste of the conference in Philadelphia. A pretty important gem for me was the livebinder
https://www.livebinders.com/b/2561096 by P. George and S. Highley with tons of great links to awesome ISTE19 resources.
While on twitter, I attended and enjoyed lots of videos of various ISTE events and talks periscoped by Valerie Lewis and Brian Romero Smith. I frequently retweeted what stuck with me with the #NotAtISTE hashtag.
My involvement in the NotAtISTE19 experience also brought me an unexpected present. I was lucky enough to win a
door prize from NotAtISTE19. My prize was a yearly free premium account for
Glogster, a cool tool for creating multimedia posters.
Back in 2013 I used Glogster with my 4th graders and I was impressed with its wealth of features. My pupils got really engaged in the interactive lesson. Here's the link to my Endangered Species Glog
https://edu.glogster.com/glog/endangered-species-by-d3/24n6uhactuo. This year I aim to subscribe my students, since I got the premium account, and let them create their own multimedia posters!
