I am starting consulting work with TES which has a lot of great free online services for teachers which I will log about later. But for now we just set up our first meeting using Doodle. Have you ever tried to set up a meeting and you spend a lot of time emailing back and forth. Well Doodle is your free meeting time savior. You simply create an online e-sheet, share it with your friends and they check off the dates and time they are available for a meeting. So in a matter of minutes you can set up your next meeting. Best of all is that you don't even need to set up an account to use it. Here is an actual example that you can click on to see how it works.
On March 7th and 8th I will be at the South by Southwest Education conference in Austin. Another conference that I have enjoyed is the ISTE one which this year is in Denver from June 26-29 . The key, if you can do so is to find someone else to pay for you. For example I am doing work for TES (more on that coming later) and so they are paying my entry ticket. So why bother? Well first off you will meet lots of tech minded people like yourself and make some connections that you can work with when you return home. Secondly there are lots of companies showing all of their latest wares and then, there are talks and demonstrations - literally hundreds of them. If you can't get the big ones, look for one close to home. Here is a place to start.
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