I didn't forget, honest.

Over the past two months, I've been fortunate to attend two educational technology events. The first was the Antelope Valley EdTech Summit. This event opened with a keynote by Alice Keeler.

While I don't aways agree with her tweets, I definitely agreed with this quote. During her Alice brought Christine Pinto to the stage to present the amazing work she is doing with technology and her TK students.

Christine was incredibly energetic and showed everyone in the audience that if her TK students can use technology yours can too! The final speaker of the day was Naomi Harm.

Her keynote was filled with little tips and tricks but I thought this quote was especially important for educators. 

Today, I've had the opportunity to participate in the Think. Create. Share. conference at Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Jonathan Plucker provided the opening and closing keynotes for the event.

During his keynote, Dr. Pluker debunked some myths about creativity and this was one of my favorites.

Just a thought

I'm sure you've noticed I don't blog a lot. It's something I want to improve, but I'm willing to accept that becoming a more consistent blogger is a future task and not something for the present.

My original plan for 2016 was to blog once a week. That morphed into once a month and then I just stopped. While I did start a new series for the blog, #CanvaKeynote, I recognize my original plans went out the window and this is okay. As I continued to mull this over in my mind, I thought about my time in the classroom and how many times changed my lesson plans.

Then this came to mind.

The First in a Series

This past weekend I started a new personal tradition called #CanvaKeynote. My goal is to make one Canva image for every keynote I listen to. Here are the first three I created at the Imperial Valley #GAFESummit.

The inaugural image was inspired by Dee Lanier and his #ThinkOpen initiative.

The second image was from Chris Bell and his day two opening keynote. 

The final image was from Jason Markey and his Chance Favors the Connected School (Working Title keynote.

I don't want to give too much away about the keynotes, because I hope you get the chance to hear them for yourself, but I hope you like these images and check out these amazing men on Twitter.

I can't wait to go to my next event and continute to add to this series.