For the Love of Leslie

Man, people love Leslie Fisher.  This room (W1-54) is filling up and there won’t be many seats left by the time it’s ready to begin.  Leslie Fisher is invited back to the MACUL conference year after year…I think she’s on retainer.  Her Gadget presentation is probably one of her most popular, but I know her sessions on iLife and Photoshop also receive rave reviews.

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Here’s a link to Leslie’s handouts page, although I’m not sure it’s her latest presentation.  I’m not going to list every gadget, but hopefully those that have a special level of awesome.

Check out Jack’s office…definately a certain level of awesome…in a goofy sort of way.

Leslie has a great point about Twitter.  It’s not the tweets about coffee and birds flying by that are important to teachers.  It’s the connections between educators about what they’re teaching that make a difference.  It’s something that’s already been discussed on the blog quite extensively.

She’s covering a lot of sites that I’m covering at my BYOL session this afternoon…is that good or bad?  It’s OK.    Right now we’re looking at Evernote, which is an awesome tool that helps you manage information in the form of notes.  The notes can be text, images, audio, whatever.  One thing that’s awesome is that Evernote has an OCR tool that coverts images to text…and it works pretty well!  Includes a desktop client for Mac and Windows as well as a web tool.

<wireless is bogging down a bit>

Teachers should love the Flip Video Camcorder.  It’s a small camera that shoots good video and hooks directly to your computer via a built-in USB port.  Quick and easy to use.

Make sure you check out the live blog post for more details of Leslie’s gadgets.