 Hi Tammy Neal, we're on there here. I'll let you hold the microphone. First, those of you that joined, can you hear us? Okay, this is like super loud in here. So can you guys hear us here in the Bloggers Cafe at ISD? Alright. Okay, so I'm Tammy Neal. You might know me on Twitter as Math Neal. I co-moderate the Florida Ed Chat, the Rural Ed Chat, and the new teachers to Voxer chat on Saturday mornings. And I'm so excited to be here. Do we have any questions from the Periscope Land tonight? What attraction to chat? Because you're involved in so many. What do you like about Twitter chats? Well, one of the things I really like about Twitter chats is it allows me to connect with people who have something in common. So the topic of the Twitter chat is a common playground for those of us interested in learning more about whatever that topic is. So it's an automatic filter to resources and people who are amazing. A question. What's your big takeaway from ISD so far? So far my big takeaway is that everybody I've met so far has been totally real and are as caring and as giving as they are on Twitter. So for me the connection has been the most important thing so far. Most of the sessions I'll attend are tomorrow. So tomorrow is my big learning day. So today has been my big connection day. Have you learned anything today? I have learned lots today. I have learned about some new programs and software and apps and new devices that haven't been used in my school before. And that I'm really excited about bringing back. And I found some really great deals on some things that I've been looking for. Like the iPad case that Felix Giacomino supports. It's on sale in the vendor hall. Can you buy things in the vendor hall? Yes. Some of the vendors have things for sale. So you have to touch base with the vendor. If they've got their product on display, odds are you can buy one. I'm going to switch so you can see. We have 40 people watching. They usually send hearts. There they are. George Karos. So guys Tony is amazing. You should totally check out his learning in hand website. He did not tell me to say that. I've just known Tony for a long time. And he is truly one of the first educators I ever connected to. The name of it was the iOS Graphite I believe it was. Yeah. It's got the double handles and all that good stuff. Tony is amazing. I agree with that completely. Well thanks Tammy. Alright. And then over here just coming to the cafe is my good friend Wendy Wells. Say hi. Hi. How are you? I saw you last night. We talked and then we haven't spoken at all today. So this is a good time for me to ask you what did you do? What did you see here at SD? Well I spent a lot of time to back up just a little bit to not do a close up and a little closer. So today I learned a lot about new software that's available for educators and also talked to a couple of developers and how they connected with educators on helping them to develop their software. So that was pretty interesting. So now I'm in the bloggers cafe. We can take a look here. Seeing educators connect all over. Trying to get people's attention. I don't know if that's going to work or not. I went to a talk about it so much and I really haven't sat down. I tried opening the app once. I bought it and then never really understood it. So I sat and just left that session where she just took us through some of the basics. And so now I have a new app to play on planes because I really love Plants vs. Zombies but I could try something new. So now I'll be mine crafting when I'm on the plane. So whose session did you sit in on Minecraft? Oh I can't remember. She was a really good teacher but I forgot her name. I'd have to go back and look. I'd have to go back and look. I sat in some Minecraft sessions two years ago so I think there's a lot of new features with it. I built this whole thing and I put a bunch of chickens in there. And then I put lava in there and then blew it up with TNT. Just playing around. Yeah. Yeah. Do you see anybody we should talk to around here? I got to talk to Angela Meyers earlier and I should have asked her to periscope it because she's just a ball of energy and good vibes and she's telling me about projects she's involved in. I don't know. I could not get my periscope to work today. No? Oh yeah the connection. I've had to use my Verizon connection. The Isti Wi-Fi has been doing it. Yeah. I did a mined app. Have you ever used the remind app? Okay so those guys were up here earlier and they were doing demonstrations of their app and they've added some new features. Some of the new features were that you could actually use it for polling software so when you're connecting with your audience not just in your classroom but as a presenter you could use it to have your audience give feedback. So it's pretty cool. So remind is to be called remind 101. Yeah he said they dropped the 101. They dropped the 101. I felt like it had more iterations than just the first feature. Yeah they've been adding a lot of things so I researched it because I thought gosh it must be big bucks to pay for that. So what I found is I think it was, this is, don't quote me on this number but it's like $37,000 they paid to get remind.com. Which seems cheap to me. I was expecting like way more than that to buy a domain like remind. And their main webpage now says that they have like 20, like 1 in 5 teachers use remind. So that seemed high to me but maybe it's true. Yeah they said they had, because I'm from South Carolina and they said that they had a lot of accounts there in South Carolina. Which surprises me. Could you guys tell she was from South Carolina? I joke. So say my name. Tony Vincent. Alright usually the Tony turns out to be like 5 syllables but remind. A lot of people are liking remind and there's somebody from North Carolina in there. Oh I think this name? Yeah. No I didn't realize that. No, no, no. People's love remind. People are going to check it out. Maybe Ericia is on from South Carolina. She was here in the bloggers cafe and I was telling her about the ropes trying to connect with the people here. People from Iowa, California, look we got 43 people all at once. That might be one of the highest I've had. If I say y'all, can you guess which state that's from? Usually I get Texas or Georgia. South Carolina. Oh there's Kansas, Missouri, Indiana is from all over. Okay wow. Oh I've got a lot of hearts. And it's all people who aren't ISTI because this is a way for them to tune in so it's been pretty neat. Let's see if we see anyone interesting besides Tony. Yeah we're interesting but they're talking about education chats on Twitter and I think that's kind of the theme of the bloggers cafe right now. How do people react when you walk around with Periscope? Usually ISTI the crowd isn't too bad but then sometimes people just don't... It's the microphone that really gets them. If I put the microphone up to them or ask them to hold it then they get a little nervous. I thought you were just videotaping. I didn't realize I was live but now that I'm live we can think of some really cool things to talk about. I thought you would edit. No there's no time to edit. This saves to my YouTube. I've been putting it on site yet but I thought I'll go through and edit. There's way too much video I'm not editing but at least on YouTube you can fast forward and rewind. On Periscope you can't. Obviously the live you can't but even when you replay it which expires after 24 hours. There's some funny rules to Periscope but I'm learning. I will learn tomorrow because I'm going to connect my Periscope to Twitter. Right now it's not connected with the Wi-Fi here. It drives me nuts. I want to do horizontal video so badly but then the chat would be sideways in the app. I see the chat over here. That's really great. I wish I could scroll back in time to the chat because I miss a lot of what's there. No editing. Broadcast is real. As somebody who edits video and spends hours and hours this is so refreshing. I can do this and not have to worry about editing it. So cool. That is so cool. Thanks. The star of it is my microphone. I should hold it like this so you can see what kind it is. This is an iRig mic HD. I don't think I could do this without the microphone because it would be so loud in here. It's like it's $98 on Amazon. Tonyv.me slash microphone. I made a short link because I get asked a lot. Tonyv.me slash microphone will take you to the Amazon page for it. We'll have microphones in here tomorrow. I'll bring your microphones and do periscope in here tomorrow. Tell us what your name is on Twitter. Wendy Wells, Ed Tech. How do you spell tech? T-E-K. Ed Tech, T-E-K. Connect with me. I can teach you a lot with Southern dialect and how to connect with other educators. I thought I would see more people I know. I'm not as comfortable going up to strangers to ask them to be on here. They say no background noise. That's amazing because it is super loud in here. That's what they just said. I guess the mic is really good. I should have a sign. I'm periscoping. Come talk to me. Let's get somebody to talk. Let's go over. I have worn down my battery three times today and recharged from all the periscoping I've been doing. It looks like there are people that are vendors over there. I just spoke to Angela Meyers and she looks like she's really busy, but she would be such a fun person to talk to in the dress sitting on the table. You never met her, huh? That's an excuse to go talk to her. I could say I want you to meet Wendy. Oh, and there's a camera in your face too. Don't worry about talking to strangers. Everyone will be enthusiastic. 90% of the people I've talked to have been enthusiastic. Can I bother you again? Two things. One, I'm periscoping right now if you don't mind. You look ravishing. But more importantly, the Angela Meyers shoes. You don't get this online. You've got to come to ISTI to get her shoes. Wow. And then your toes peek out there. Shoes matter. Hashtag shoes matter. More importantly, I want you to meet my friend Wendy Wells. Nice to meet you. I'm Wendy Wells. Where are you from, Wendy Wells? Why don't you guess? Iowa. No. Colorado. I guess again, maybe I should talk a little bit more. Talk a little bit more. Oh gosh, that was wonderful. No, I wish I was. No, but no, South Carolina. I didn't say y'all. I love South Carolina. I just did an event in Myrtle Beach. Is that South Carolina? That is. Beautiful people. It's like Iowa with a southern accent. Yeah, that's right. I love that. Okay, here we go. We'll share the mic. New friends. Strangers are friends not yet. So Wendy is not familiar with your work. No, I'm sorry. How would you describe all the things you're involved with? Need to visit angelamayors.com. Two words, liberating genius. Hello. Just that, I absolutely believe that we're in the presence of genius every day. Every single day. I'm talking about, I got to meet, it's a get to. I get to meet you. I get to meet Tony. Every single person here has something to teach us. Every single person, if we pay attention, has a gift to give. And most of the time, unless you're a five year old, you don't pay attention. And so five year olds remind us to pay attention to water. What is it? To water towers. Who cares about a water tower? And yet through the eyes of a five year old, it's amazing. And so when we start living life awake in wonder and in awe, so I sort of operationalized a framework so that we can remember what it was like when we were five. And most importantly, what it was like when we owned our genius, when we were fiercely confident, when we were grateful to literally just be awake. And so we call liberating genius. And so when people do that, it's the deepest form of what I call mattering and they're choosing to matter. So most of people think when you choose to matter or do something that matters, you've got to build a waterfall or go to a different country and solve world hunger. But most of the time it's just giving somebody a smile or being present in somebody's life. We're not present with each other. And technology is a beautiful thing because we get to connect with other genius learners we wouldn't, but oh my gosh, that is a miracle. This is what technology should be for. But it's to be more present. I have no idea. I don't know how we connected. Wow. So you've written a framework about around that. So one of the things I used to teach was gifted children and we talked about what is gifted and what is genius. It's connecting both of them. Keep talking. My name is Angela. This is too much technology. I'm bad. How are you? This is bad. What's really funny is I'm keynoting all these tech conferences. I'm not that tech savvy. People think I can't even program. It doesn't. But I am people savvy. It's a social part of it. It's a social part of it. It is. I feel privileged. Oh my gosh, so do I. I want to photo bomb this. Tony, how are you doing? This man matters. Your Twitter is right on your shirt. Oh my gosh. If you do not friends, new friends, if you do not know this genius man, you follow him right now and he is a gift to our community. He is a gift to our world. He is one of my heroes. One of my learning heroes. She's my hero. She matters so much to all of us. This is our new friend Wendy. She's from South Carolina. You know Kitty Tripp? You have to make sure you follow me on Twitter and say hi at Angela Myers so that I can follow you back. I don't auto follow. I really care. I really follow so many people. How can you be in a room with so many people? It doesn't mean you interact with them all at the same time. But when you bump into them, there is an interaction that is going to be magical. I am inspired. I am inspired. We are all in there together. We got to take a selfie. We are not really taking a selfie. You need a wire. They have been saying some really nice things. Did you pay them? No. They are people who can't come to ISTI and they are just really happy. I am shy. You are here with us. This is the beauty and the miracle of technology. This is amazing. I am so happy. Nice to meet you. They just follow the hashtag you matter. You matter. And then we are so excited because Microsoft just joined Tuesday Matter and they are helping us connect your kids so that your kids know how much they matter to the world. So just Tuesdaymatter.org. All right. I have hugged so many people on Periscope. The camera just shakes but it is good. Can we talk to you? All right. You are really probably most famous for having like a I am going to do that when I introduce you there for having a catalogue a page for just about everything on the internet. I told you I have twins. I got to add you to my people with twins page. So what are you getting out of ISTI so far? Just meeting my PLN now. Any time you are with them you are talking, you are learning constantly. You are learning connecting and sharing. It is awesome. And then what are you looking for besides that or anything else out of ISTI? Are you just here to meet? Are you going to go to sessions? I am a constant learner. We all should be constant learners. We should model this for our students. That is what we want to be constant learners. And not afraid to try things and fail forward. If you make a mistake there is nothing wrong with it. And when I want I want to see more use of the internet but I didn't. That is my first time here. Is that a hashtag too? I shouldn't make it one. You have a lot of hearts for that. I do have a student tech help page which I think is very important. Every school should have a student tech help squad and a help desk. And my favorite expression is technology gives even the quiet student a global voice. Yes. Were you a quiet student? I was. That is why blogging is so great. Get the word out now. And you can connect with the world. I have been telling people this really for me because I wouldn't normally people I know like you I would come up and say hi but I probably wouldn't ask the same questions. Just by the fact that I am talking to 55 people right now has really improved my conference experience because I am asking things I may not have already. People are saying it is so great to see you in person in quotes. Look at all the hearts they are giving you. Thank you. I love you all. You are the superheroes. You are too. And you have the cape to prove it. Thanks Jerry. And now we have to talk to Jed. Are you watching it? Scope. Right now. That is where all the band with it is going. That is right. He follows you on Periscope. And he said hey Tony is up in the bloggers cafe. He said go up there and see if you see him. So I have walked up here. In case people don't know who you are can I look at your name tag on here? It is kind of my tradition now so they can see your website and that. Awesome. So what did you do today? Well I met a lot of awesome people but I worked in the Skype booth to teach teachers that came up to the booth how they could connect globally with Skype if they are afraid of the inquiry based learning at first we told them how they could just get in there at the ground level with just a basic mystery Skype. Yeah. People saying hi. I think Ryan Reed just said hi. Matt Johnson 10 said how do you all? Hey Matt. We were just talking for a while with my friend Wendy over there who is now best friends with Angela Myers. Wendy is a South Carolina girl. I would love to see South Carolina people up here representing on your show. That is awesome. What was the big thing you were showing in the Skype booth what really got people excited? You know what the biggest thing that got them was just the fact that we could build empathy for people around the world and grow our sense of community around the world. You know when you connect with a class that is in Africa, Venezuela, Greece, Armenia you realize that yes you're different but the differences are far less than our similarities and it's just about building that global community through Skype and making these connections in our learning and realizing that the world really is a small place and we have a lot in common and we can build on that together to change the world to be even better. Yeah. I was kind of nerd as a kid or geeky. I saved up a bunch of money and bought a modem and paid for my own teen line and there's local BBS you would call in to and sorry I clearly remember the day that the first time I ever done that and there was his username was like Cooley I think and it said he entered the chat room he stayed there for a second and said he left he didn't even say a word and I got chills on my spine like there was somebody in the same chat room he was just like locally like across the city you know but now as it's gone through you know and then we have so many friends like here on Periscope from all over the world that I'm talking to you right now and it's still now and I got chills on my spine again. Also in another building and I was walking this way to come to the bloggers cafe anyway and somebody texted me and said hey you should go check out Tony he's doing a live periscope go go see what's going on so I walked up here yeah I walked up here and there you guys were and so I started watching and now here I am I'm on here so it's so cool it's from South Carolina also and so he's from South Carolina so yeah everybody's from South Carolina well Erin Klein how are you? I didn't know that you were are you periscoping? are you okay with that? I know you're a little shy completely introverted now I came over to take like our little pictures that we always do together you got a ketchup bottle around? I don't but I should maybe a ketchup packet we can find Erin takes very like she's the nicest person but when she has your normal face you just look sometimes yeah like her normal face looks a little scowly I swear I'm in a good mood but she is she's super pleasant so we take pictures together like that you've been periscoping all day and I love it because I keep getting notifications on my phone so I get to be in two places at once because of you so thank you so I thought you're going to complain because Kathy Schrock is she says Tony every time you periscope she has an Apple watch she gets a notification on her wrist turn the notifications off I think it's in settings so what did you do today? lots so I got to just mainly build relationships and connect and meet with people that's my favorite thing so I went to the future ready session earlier got to meet with Brett and talk to him so we were kind of combined and now we're going to go head over to the party and I went to the terminal for food quite the experience a little crowded but it was good so I walked on the city saw some sights pretty I almost didn't get lunch today because I was going from session to session busy periscoping I guess and then when I went to go get lunch across the street it was like the lines were out the door so I had a sandwich from down the hall and I wouldn't recommend it so much good food around here and then I ended up eating that it's terrible you have to make an effort to eat otherwise you'll forget so in case people don't know you I've been showing name tags so sometimes people take screenshots so they can find you online and I don't know how does ISTE decide to put your Twitter on there or not some of them they have alright definitely on Twitter alright anything else we got all those hearts for you we can do this to our no let's just do our serious face okay this is our traditional selfie that we take whenever we're together okay yeah I look pretty good in your glasses too do you know Erin I wouldn't connect it online and I don't know if you remember me or not I'm Wendy Wells I met you at the bloggers cafe yeah yes it was seeing Antonio so I've been following some of your things that you're doing pretty impressed yeah good stuff online yeah good to see you and that you get connected on Periscope alright which one um yeah maybe is there food there is that a terrible lunch maybe well there's lots of hearts here I think I might wind down this broadcast but man awesome people we had here um yeah yeah that it was to Nick he was like making faces so I just took my tongue out and I was like he probably thought that was it him oh no Periscope people there they're nice I don't think that so okay well then tomorrow I think my next Periscope if I don't do one tonight about some of the things that I learned today I'll probably be too tired to do that but there's more poster sessions tomorrow morning that I'll get to so see you later