ISTE 2013 Day 1- sort of

So today was kind of the first official day of ISTE for me here in San Antonio. Awesome day. Went to some great poster sessions. I love those! When I was at ISTE in Philly I spent quite a bit of time in the poster area because you can take out as much as you want or as little. I can't even begin to list all the things we saw today. We visited Jason Ohler and how he used Aurasma. I've tried Aurasma and I

think it has some great potential but I don't find it particularly user friendly. I've had some glitches in using in and I know if it doesn't work easily and smoothly teachers will give up on it and stop trying. But, I really think Aurasma is pretty cool so I've going to keep at it and see how I can solve my issues.

Learning management systems seem to be the up and coming thing. First there was Moodle and Blackboard. I've never really used Blackboard for a class. I've seen it but not used it personally. I took my entire masters courses using Moodle and it was okay. Not very fancy. Kind of plain jane of sorts but fairly easy to get around. Well now there is Schoology and Canvas who are going to make those old two step up their game. Both Schoology and Canvas offer many options and seem to flow seemlessly from one thing to another. We are going to meet with a teacher that uses Canvas. I am looking forward to hearing what she has to say. I use Edmodo regularly but will check out these other two on their "free" side.

Well I just tried Schoology and your students have to be 13 and over to create an account. So, is this a platform only for the upper middle and high school crowd? I will need to visit Schoology booth to find out more.