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Jeff Pence: ISTE 2011 from WriteToLearn on Vimeo.

Wow, what a great wrap-up to an awesome conference. We had so many people from all over the world come by the Pearson booth over the last three days to get personal WriteToLearn demos. Teachers, students, superintendents, directors and almost anyone else with a title learned how WriteToLearn could help them in the classroom and make their lives easier, either through a visit to our booth or one of Jeff Pence's presentations on WriteToLearn today. It's hard to believe that it's already been three days but looking back at all the photos, our new twitter friends and the armfuls of swag I saw ISTE attendees with, it's clear that every one of the 12,000 attendees and exhibitors got something unique out of the conference.

Our first event today was Jeff Pence's breakfast. Not that the food wasn't amazing but muffins and fruit can't hold an audience's attention near as well as Jeff when he speaks about WriteToLearn.

Jeff imparting his experiences with WriteToLearn to the crowd at breakfast.

Jeff explaining the WriteToLearn essay scoring page at the breakfast.

After breakfast we headed back to the booth to meet anyone we'd missed on days one and two.

Sue Towle showing an essay that could use a little bit of improvement to the crowd at ISTE.

Sue Towle showing off WriteToLearn to some ISTE attendees.

Later in the afternoon, Jeff gave a more in-depth presentation about WriteToLearn to a sellout crowd.

Jeff warming up the crowd.

What an audience! This was 10 minutes before the conference even started.

Jeff takes questions.

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At 6:00 PM Eastern / 3:00 PM Pacific Wednesday night World Times, we will have a live Teachers Teaching Teachers event from Rembrandt's Pub with guests from the Science Leadership Academy, including Chris Lehmann and teachers from the school, Zac Chase and Diana Laufenberg, and others.

If you are in Philadelphia for ISTE (or any other reason) you are welcome to join us in person at Rembrandt's Pub, which is at 741 North 23rd Street, http://www.rembrandts.com/. Bring your laptop with Skype and headphones.

And, if you can’t come in person, join us in the chat room online at EdTechTalk.

NOTE EARLIER TIME: Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 6:00pm Eastern / 3:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 22:00 UTC Wednesday World Times.

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Chris Lehmann

Closing Keynote—Chris Lehmann Change Now: The Urgency of School Reform

Wednesday, 2:45–4:15 pm Terrace Ballroom (simulcast throughout PACC)

“School reform” has taken its place at the front of the national political debate. Close your 2011 conference experience by joining us for an upbeat and inspiring look at how the educational technology community can help to create more empowering, progressive and caring schools.

Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA), an award-winning, progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia that is pioneering the School 2.0 movement. He has received many honors including being named as one of the “30 Most Influential People in Ed Tech” by Technology & Learning magazine in June 2010. He has spoken at many conferences including TEDxNYED, and has been published in Principal Leadership magazine. Chris is the author of the edu-blog “Practical Theory” and is father to Jakob and Theo.

-- Paul Allison, Susan Ettehneim, and Chris Sloan

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Collaborative dictionary created by students for #education #edtech

It is going to be interesting to see what those educators who hate wikipedia think of a dictionary that students create!

"The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety of formats and for multiple platforms. "