Alas, March approached and so did Winter Storm Thor, slamming central Kentucky with a hammer of frozen precipitation. However, the conference was slated to continue on. Although I (most unfortunately) do not own a souped-up DMC Delorean, I hopped in my Nissan Altima and made the trip up to Louisville a day early to avoid the Norse God of winter activity. Unlike Doc Brown and Marty, where I was going needed roads and I thankfully made the right decision, considering Interstate 65 looked like this on Wednesday and Thursday of the conference:
Yikes.
Thankfully, the only affect this storm had on me throughout the conference is that it slightly altered my all-important eating plans and caused me a brief slip in front of the Smash Burger on 4th Street.
I am going to post my notes from the conference in relation to individual sessions, mainly because of the bulk of content I am wanting to share. But I wanted to complete this introductory post by giving a shout-out to some things/people that you will want to check out on your own:
- The title of this post, #KySTE15, was the hashtag employed throughout the conference to upload thoughts, opinions, links, and information related to what was presented throughout the week. It may take you quite some time to navigate through all of all of the tweets related to this subject matter, but I am CERTAIN you will find multiple things that will be beneficial to you and your students. Furthermore, what I am going to share is only what I was able to see. For every session I attended, there were at least 15-20 that I didn't get to be a part of. This hashtag was used by EVERYONE at the conference.
- Speaking of Twitter, two things:
- If you are not on Twitter, GET. ON. TWITTER.
- When you do join the Force, be sure to follow other amazing educators that you can collaborate with, learn from, and share with along this educational journey. Here are some examples from people I have learned from in the past couple of days:
~Mr. D
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