MICCA!!!

The MICCA Conference was this week and it was very cool. I wish I could have gone for both days but it just wasn't in the cards this year. The conference had a lot more vendors than I thought it would (so lots of free goodies :) ) one neat thing I saw was a projector that attached to the top of a white board so it was up and out of the way. i thought about that for my students (in case I won the lottery) but I think they would still cast shadows because I'd want them up and interacting. Now what I really need is a gigantic touch sensitive screen, that is hard to break, and smeels like chocolate :) J/k





There were two sessions I particualry liked, The first was "gadget a go-go" and it talked about all the different software (web 2.0) and hardware that is new and possibly useful. Here is the link to the presentation the lady had http://mhmsmedia.wikispaces.com/gadget . The neatest think by far was the Flip Mino Video Camera. Its a digital camera the size of a large cell phone.. I think it would be great for data collection. The other session was "braving the wild" and it was the only session specifically geared for eafrly childhood (although still not all the way down to the two year olds ... but I swear i'm over it :) ). They had so many neat projects and ideas. One cute Idea was having color coded Ipod shuffles at a center with each color having songs geared for a particular concept or theme (numbers, alphabet, transportation) super simple and cute!

Anyways, it was very fun and informative (plus I got to attend with my sister who is also in a STEP cohort at a different school, double bonus)