Day Two Takeaways From MassCUE 2015

The best sessions are workshops where ideas are cultivated in the absence of vendors and proprietary cash sinks. Today's highlight was the collaboration lead by Dr. Kristen Swanson, author of Professional Learning in the Digital Age:  The Educator's Guide to User-Generated Learning. Simply fantastic session where participants began to consider the impact of technology on learning with research. I left with a lot to think about. If you ever go to MassCUE, load your schedule with "Featured Speakers".

Other takeaways:

When WiFi breaks, a presenter's session breaks, as does the workshop in which participants are supposed to practice.

I finally learned how and when to discretely leave an in-session workshop that would not be useful to me.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of vendors displaying "education solutions".

Vendors

More vendors

Even more vendors

The Microsoft Booth.

A Google workshop five minutes later. Standing room only.

I am conferenced out, and eager to rejoin the work taking place in EWG classrooms!