I saw an entry entitled Please vote for the ISTE 2010 conference keynote! at Dangerously Irrelevant earlier today and it reminded me of my own ISTE suggestion (see ISTE 2010 Conference Keynote Topic Suggestions ). As you’ll recall, I made a suggestion for a keynote topic and encouraged folks to go and vote for it. At the end of Phase 1, they selected the top five topics and then asked for suggestions on who should present those five topics.
Taking stock in my own suggestion, here is a screen shot of that page:
Click on the image to go to the page for that topic or visit
http://iste2010.uservoice.com/pages/30480-closed-forum-iste-2010-conference-keynote-topic-suggestions to see all of the topics.
You’ll note that my suggestion finished 12th overall. To get in the top ten I would have needed at least 271 votes, the top five would have been 433 votes and to have been first overall would have taken 1151 votes. In one sense I look at the top two selections and see individuals that have blogs and other social networking tools that have vastly more followers than I have for this blog and my Twitter and Plurk networks – which likely played a role (although I can’t say how big of a role). I do wonder if this is a true reflection of the interest within ISTE for this kind of topic.
About two years ago, although it may have been three, was the first time that ISTE had a track that was focused on K-12 online learning at their annual NECC conference. And while I have never attended, I have seen some interested presentation titles and abstracts for that track during that time. Again, while I have never been to NECC, I’ve been told that it is THE conference to interact with teachers who have an interest in technology in education. So it does beg the question, is online learning really that far off of the radar screens of this constituency of teachers?
BTW, if you want to vote in this phase 2 of the ISTE keynote selection process, visit http://iste2010.uservoice.com/pages/34277-phase-2-instructions
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