ADE Asia Take Aways
As I mentioned in my last post, I spent four days last week in Bangkok attending the Apple Distinguished Educator Asia Institute 2007. It was a great experience that other conferences should emulate. I was concerned before I went that it would be just an Apple marketing session but it wasn’t. Of course, there was that element to the event but it was about learning front and teaching and center. Apple brought a bunch of people together, helped us form into small teams, gave us access to a bunch of way cool tools and then let us go out and create.
My group focussed on the Chao Phraya River which runs through Bangkok. We gathered media–video, stills, and audio–to answer the question, How do rivers effect the lives and culture of people that live near them? We still have some work to do but the project will end up on Apple’s Learning Interchange website. Our goal is that our work can serve as a model for others that live near rivers and can look at their river to see how it impacts the lives of those who life along it.
The Institute was great. There were some “sit and git” sessions but the majority of our time was focussed on doing useful and meaningful projects.
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