Microsoft Redmond Day 4 Reflection
This to me was a bit of a manic day. I have been feeling a little
nervous about
today as I am doing my Office 365 talk. I
have been
doing a great deal of preparation for this and I feel confident that
it
will go well, but more of that later ….
We strated the day with our keynote speaker, Ziauddin Yousafzai.
All I can say was WOW!! HE was really
inspiring. He is Malala’s
father and for
me personally it was one of the greatest speeches I have
ever heard.
This was a talk about a father and his
daughter and the
things he did with his daughter or should I say the things he
did not do.
He spoke about how he would
give his daughter the choice of doing
things and not reprimanding her for
things that she wanted to do, but
were against the countries policies and
beliefs. To me as an educator,
is this
not what we want our students to have, the freedom of choice,
to do things that
they believe in?
Then our Track sessions started. For me that meant Office 365. I had
two sessions of an hour each.
The entire presentation can be found here:
I have included Mix into this so
there are many videos explain how we
have integrated Office 365 into our
school.
Overall I think that the presentation went very well.
The one thing I was a little unhappy about was because I was
presenting
I could not see some of the other great presentations that were
happening.
We then had the opportunity to work on the Educator
Challenge.
WOW what a great team I
have!! Croatia, Canada, Singapore and
China!
In the afternoon we were driven to the 2015 Kent Technology
Expo.
This was amazing to see what
students and teachers are doing in their classroom!
