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 * Monday**


 * Big Idea:** Provide opportunities for students to work on complex problems
 * Session Title
 * Stock Market Simulations: Bullish on Engagement, Blogs, and Brainy Work

Spreadsheets: Magic Beans for Exploring Math, from Roots to Clouds []
 * Session Title:
 * Links and Resources so others can pick up on what you learned:

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 * Tuesday**

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 * Big Idea:** Tracking student growth through data tables
 * Session Title: EnableMATH360: Web-based, Continuous-Progress Math
 * Links and Resources so others can pick up on what you learned:

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 * Wednesday**


 * Big Idea:** Develop critical thinking skills in complex situations: see an issue, clarify the issue, jumpstart, students’ point of view, parents’ point of view, teachers’ point of view, administrators’ point of view
 * Session Title: SCAN: Teaching Kids to Think and Write about Complex Issues
 * Links and Resources so others can pick up on what you learned:
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 * Keynote and other Special Sessions**


 * Big Idea:**
 * Create a collaborative classroom where students grapple with complex information, students are the producers of knowledge, not just consumers.
 * Create a global citizenship mindset

The ISTE conference brought amazing experience to me. Microsoft offer amazing educational programs and solutions. Here are few of them: http://microsoft.com/mousemischief : Multiple mice can be attached to one computer( W7 up to 25 XP up to 5) Great opportunity for small centers. http://livecampus.net : free web hosting and a lot more from Microsoft
 * Implications for your Classroom ** (

New MacKiev KidPix 3D. MacKiev new KidPix 3D is a very good media program for elementary school. They have improved Mac version fully compatible with iPhoto and iTunes. Reasonable priced with a lot of new features raised on the top of the KidPix we already know.

More information about my discoveries during the 2010 ISTE conference are coming soon.