{"id":1513,"date":"2018-01-31T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2018-02-23T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:38:24","slug":"fetc-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"FETC Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was lucky enough to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fetc.org\/\">FETC<\/a> for the first time. As a long-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iste.org\/\">ISTE<\/a> attendee\/presenter, I&#8217;m definitely comfortable with the large ed tech conference scene. I especially enjoyed FETC because it&#8217;s just the right size for me. I loved this conference because for the first time in quite some time, I was able to go as an attendee, without the pressure of presenting. I accompanied two other folks from my school&#8217;s technology team, which made the experience even more fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC-900x676.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FETC.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anytime I&#8217;m attending a conference, I think about my learning goals and plan my sessions accordingly. For this conference, I focused on gathering resources to support teachers in Project-Based Learning, ideas for design for collaborative learning spaces, and new tech tools to take back to share with my teachers. They keynote by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/fetc-2018-ken-robinson-argues-2-key-points-in-support-of-creative-schools\/515530\/\">Sir Ken Robinson<\/a> and TechShare LIVE with <a href=\"http:\/\/adambellow.com\/\">Adam Bellow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HallDavidson\">Hall Davidson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schrockguide.net\/\">Kathy Schrock<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliefisher.com\/\">Leslie Fisher<\/a> were definitely highlights of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on digesting the things I learned and new resources I&#8217;ve brought back, but I wanted to share some of the most intriguing tools and apps I was introduced to at FETC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goosechase.com\/\">Goose Chase<\/a> &#8211; App to organize and run a scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhsYpP8KXqA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/\">Mentimeter<\/a> &#8211; An interactive presentation tool.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLKbr7LlGmU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellkey.com\/\">YellKey<\/a> &#8211; Temporary, simple URL shortener that uses REAL words, not crazy letter\/number combos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incredibox.com\/\">Incredibox<\/a> &#8211; This one is SO FUN! It&#8217;s a free music creator (web and app) that&#8217;s as simple as drag and drop.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qkmtRu-ceYc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.story-fab.com\/\">StoryFab<\/a> &#8211; App that is basically an AR movie studio. AR and VR were big topics, and this is one of the many resources I saw that has tons of potential to use with students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkbW9VNy8HE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Do you have any new (or new to you) tech tools that you&#8217;re obsessed with right now?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was lucky enough to attend FETC for the first time. As a long-time ISTE attendee\/presenter, I&#8217;m definitely comfortable with the large ed tech conference scene. I especially enjoyed FETC because it&#8217;s just the right size for me. I loved this conference because for the first time in quite some time, I was<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1513\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-resources-links","category-tech"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}