Microsoft Innovative Teacher's Conference
I'm at the first ever Microsoft sponsored Canadian Innovative Teacher's Conference.
Strange feeling being an avowed mac guy with Linux machines in my classroom at a conference with Microsoft signs everywhere, but I gotta say; its pretty cool. We are in downtown Winnipeg at Red River College. A beautiful building designed that is sustainable and green.
Took us until lunch time, but we finally got wireless access so now let the flickring, and blogging begin.
This conference is about innovation. It's about change. We spent the morning touring different companies around Winnipeg and listening to speakers about their concepts of innovation. By far, the highlight of the morning was hearing Arnold Wasserman, the founder of the San Francisco based consultancy company, The Idea Factory talk about innovation and ideas that range from small scale change to rebranding entire nations. He talked about design thinking and human centred innovation vs. technology based innovation.
Much more to come. But I've got wireless (finally) and had to make some use of it.
Strange feeling being an avowed mac guy with Linux machines in my classroom at a conference with Microsoft signs everywhere, but I gotta say; its pretty cool. We are in downtown Winnipeg at Red River College. A beautiful building designed that is sustainable and green.
Took us until lunch time, but we finally got wireless access so now let the flickring, and blogging begin.
This conference is about innovation. It's about change. We spent the morning touring different companies around Winnipeg and listening to speakers about their concepts of innovation. By far, the highlight of the morning was hearing Arnold Wasserman, the founder of the San Francisco based consultancy company, The Idea Factory talk about innovation and ideas that range from small scale change to rebranding entire nations. He talked about design thinking and human centred innovation vs. technology based innovation.
Much more to come. But I've got wireless (finally) and had to make some use of it.
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