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Not coming to ISTE this year? You can participate through streaming of events from the ISTE Playground into ISTE Island in Second Life throughout the conference. Focuses on the 32 back to back half-hour presentations in the Playground, over half of them coming in from various virtual worlds.

With digital data burgeoning, helping students make sense of information is more challenging now than ever. Infographics -visual representations of data- can play a critical role in developing students' information literacy so they can make sense of their world.

Session presenters Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann share all of their videos here. A version of their presentation given two weeks ago titled "Flipped Class Conference 2011, flipped is not just about videos and technology" is very similar to their presentation at ISTE2011.

A social network site for teachers using vodcasting in the classroom.

Steve Dembo's tips on what not to do at ISTE.

#curation #edtech20 #chirpstory for #iste11

WPClipart is an ever-growing collection of artwork for schoolkids and others that is free of copyright concerns as well as safe from inappropriate images. WPClipArt provides high-quality artwork and photos optimized for use with word processors and inkjet printers.

I blogged the ISTE sessions I attended

Resources from Tony Vincent.

Recommended by Leslie Fisher.

Notes on Leslie Fisher's session from Joanna Sanders Bobiash.

An alternative to teachers who are concerned about distributing phone number. The service allows you to set up a number that you can then direct to voicemail or other phone numbers based on the who is calling. For example, if it's an unknown number, you can send it directly to voicemail. If it's a personal call, you can have it go to your home number, or if it's a parent calling, you can have it rerouted to your classroom. Google Voice will also transcribe voicemails to text.