Just prior to our winter break, I had a great opportunity to participate in a Virtual Tech Conference. This virtual event was conducted by a technology guru by the name of Matt Miller. Some of you may have heard of Matt and his book entitled, "Ditch that Textbook" or possibly read his weekly blog.
Matt came up with this idea of conducting a virtual event and interviewing some influential technology people in a nine-day time span. At the end of the virtual conference, all of the interviews would go away. His conference would be like any other "conference" where you would attend a speaker and then once you left the session, you would only have your notes and memories to carry back with you to your classroom.
The interviews were very enlightening and a couple, like Paul Solarz and Dave Burgess were quite motivational. All of the sessions were good.
As Matt promised, the sessions did actually disappear. Apparently, there were many people like me who shared the positive messages but the videos were taken down because the conference was over. Matt has decided to reopen his conference for one more week from 1/12-1/18 and allow full access to the videos and the associated PDFs of each session.
I highly recommend trying to catch some of the sessions. Here is a link to be included in Matt's announcement mailing list. https://goo.gl/2555P8
Additionally, if you want to read Matt's most recent blog post, I have attached that link too!
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2017/01/05/sketchnotes-of-all-9-dtt-digital-summit-presentations/
Now - you too can participate in a tech conference without ever leaving your home. The videos can be watched at any time during the week, and they can be watched in their entirety or just in snippets. Remember though, - as of January 18th, they will be gone forever.
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