ISTE take-home message #1: It's all about the iPads
New tablets from Viewsonic, for example, range from very usable, inexpensive mobile Internet devices all the way to dual boot Android/Windows PCs that just happen to live in a tablet form factor.
That being said, though, you couldn’t sneeze at ISTE without someone looking up from their iPad to say “Gazuntite!” The sleek tablets were everywhere
Vendor HotSpot big business of ed tech, but, at the end of the day, I had a chance to talk to a lot of people (teachers, vendors, thought leaders, and administrators alike) and walked away with some overarching themes, ideas, and impressions on the state of the art in educational technology
Most recently, he started his own consulting business and is now the Vice President of Marketing for WizIQ, Inc., a virtual classroom and learning network provider
He escaped to the right coast in the early 90's and received a degree in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University
This message is especially important for those of us who develop ed tech products but is a big heads up for anyone who thought the iPad just might be a fad
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