EdTech Google Summit April 2018

Baruk and I presented at the EdTech Google Summit in Auckland, April 16th 2018. Below is the link to our presentation. We were placed in the final session slot of day 1. 

Following the session we did a quick review of what we judged as our performance and planned how we might better appeal at uLearn 2018.
1. The main idea of our presentation was collaboration and how collaborative efforts can build programmes and assist schools, teachers and students in a cluster. We considered that the main audience for this would be school leadership, heads of departments etc, however everyone who attended was a classroom teacher. Therefore, we considered that maybe individual teachers wouldn't have been that interested in our story behind the tools. There weren't any questions about this aspect. Our learning is that for uLearn to make sure we choose the right conference strands and presentation type so that we have a better chance of attracting the right audience.
2. This summit was a very techie, play-with-tools, type of conference. Our presentation had an opportunity for attendees to create using tinkercad, and we used half the session for this. Our approach was to show attendees the website and then let them freely explore and attempt to build their shapes, rather than to take them through how to design in tinkercad. We chose to do it this way because that is the experience that the students have. Some attendees found this very hard and didn't persevere. We were put at the end of the day, so maybe part of the reluctance to play was tiredness. We decided that at uLearn we would give attendees the choice to play or be coached through. We also thought that we could offer a choice for attendees to try tinkercad or MBlock. The title of our suggestion suggested coding but we didn't do any. The 'cracked the code' part meant figuring out this programme together.
3. We decided that we need to plan our storytelling better so that attendees understand Kootuitui and Auckland Libraries, understand our shared vision and describe the Papakura community.
All in all, it was a worthwhile experience to practically have a run through should we be accepted for uLearn.