Educause 2009 Day 1

Also went to an Adobe presentation. The Adobe presenter was ok, but the University of Denver dude was exciting! Their Course Media project had a lot of similarities to MSU's myMedia.

Blog a about their project
About page
Help Page - Course Media

Great "point counterpoint" presentation on twitter in education. Reminded me of the Mac commercials (hi, I'm a Mac. And I'm a pc). The image below: Twitter Feed on the left, PowerPoint on the right. Was fun - but hard to multitask by twittering, reading and listening.



Going On - kind of like facebook and twitter for universities. Pretty cool product. The CEO of the company gave us the demo. Didn't get a picture on the exhibit floor, but saw their car outside of the convention center.



Presidium sponsored the massage break place. Unfortunately, I fell out of my massage chair. Yes, I fell out. It's quite easy to do if your feet are tucked under you and you lean back to put something in your purse. Only slightly embarrassed.


Four Winds digital signage. Pretty interesting, but their internet connection was down. Bummer.


Google Apps - only liked this place because the Google employees were in jeans and tshirts.

Educause 2009

Educause 2009 is in Denver this year in a beautiful setting. The Denver Convention Center is beautiful and just across the street from my hotel - The Hyatt. Before registering yesterday, the Mississippi State University group ate at Bubba Gump's Shrimp place. We managed to run in to Ole Miss IT peeps and a beloved former MSU IT staff member - Danny Kemp.


...insert pictures here....
my camera won't connect to my laptop - until that is resolved there will only be pics from the iPhone.


Interesting Presentation Tool: Prezi

Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.

It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It's been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won't fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool.