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Conversations from ISTE Live with Greg Bagby · Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast

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  Welcome to the Integrate This podcast. I'm Jeremy
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  Mikla, David Berner here. He's behind the camera.
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  But we're doing several different interviews
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  with past guests that we've had on our program
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  over the last year. And we're really excited
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  to bring back Greg Bagby. Greg, it's great to
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  see you again. Great to be included. Yeah. Well,
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  we're so glad that when we reached out that you
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  said, yes, you're going to be here too. You know,
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  but is there other than joining us here on the
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  Integrate This podcast, is there? The reason
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  why you chose to come this year is it's something
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  that you just continually do. It's something
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  that I continually do. I've been doing ISTE neck
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  if any of you old heads are out there. Did the
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  neck conference I remember back in 2001 going
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  to that and it became ISTE over the years and
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  I would come as much as possible until I became
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  a father and liked the kids and I had to do vacation
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  time. the same time every month or every year.
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  Yeah. So I took a break to hang out with my kids,
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  which I love. They're amazing. Brilliant. So
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  I'm glad I did. But after my kids grew up and
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  got out, I started coming back. So yeah, here
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  I am. What do you think makes this such a great
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  event for educators to come to year after year?
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  It's the people. It's always the people. Not
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  only do you get to learn about the latest and
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  greatest tools that are coming out, and you get
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  to actually maybe learn something about pedagogy
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  and or curriculum and technology, but... The
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  people here are brilliant. You get to work with
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  some of the best minds in education and come
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  and listen to them and learn from them and grow
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  with them. And it's so it's the people. So speaking
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  of people, are there anyone here that's on your
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  list of people that you want to see sessions
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  that they're presenting that you want to go to
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  that, you know, like, hey, I know if it's by
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  this person, it's going to be awesome. So you
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  said. sessions. I love going to sessions. I love
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  learning. I'm a little different. I am the one
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  who likes to meet the people in the hallway.
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  Perfect. Bring the conference into the hallway.
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  Yes. A lot like ed camps. I don't know if you
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  were a part of that movement back in the day,
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  but I do a lot of ed camps and ed camps. That's
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  the whole thing that they would take. not necessarily
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  the conference sit and listen to the keynote,
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  but having those conversations with people. So
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  I'm looking forward to having conversations with
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  a lot of different people from the Adam Files,
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  the Carl Hookers, the Jeremy Owas, even Richard
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  Collada. We were having conversations just a
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  couple of weeks ago in Birmingham. I will look
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  for him again, hopefully this year. Last year,
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  of course, it was everyone wanted to meet Colin
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  Kaepernick. He was there. I got some time with
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  him. Shh, don't tell anyone. But just being able
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  to talk with different people, doing amazing
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  things. And Mike Hill, Reading Rainbow, the guy.
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  I don't know. Grew up with that? Yeah, I don't
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  know if I'm going to be able to connect with
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  him, but. I'm going to try. You see him in the
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  hallway. That is correct. You're going to go
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  up and introduce yourself and like strike up
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  a conversation. I'm going to pull out my phone
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  and take some pictures and we're going to do
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  some video. We're going to talk about, hey. A
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  selfie and then you're going to share that out
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  with us too and we'll be able to say, hey, look
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  who we ran into. That is correct. Yeah. Yeah.
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  We'll make it happen. I love it. I love it. You
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  know, if you think back to like over the experience
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  of the different conferences that you've been
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  to here and if you were to recommend something
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  to a person who's here the first time. How can
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  they best experience all of ISTE in that, you
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  know, in the short amount of time that we're
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  actually here? Don't do like me. Be like other
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  folks. Go ahead and map out the conference sessions
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  that you want to go to. Go to sessions. Learn
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  and grow. I think that's the best thing is if
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  you map out your sessions prior to arriving to
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  ISTE. then you have an idea of okay I want to
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  go here go here go here go here and you have
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  your schedule set you may not make all the ones
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  that you want to see and you may not go and meet
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  all the people that you want to meet but it will
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  be impactful if you make the ones if you can
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  make any of the sessions that you think speak
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  to you it will be impactful for you in your position
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  wherever or whatever you may do so I would say
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  go ahead do the schedule Wear some good shoes
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  because you're gonna be walking a lot Yeah, and
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  I have my water bottle behind you behind me rather
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  and be ready to hydrate Especially in a warm
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  place like Orlando. Yes. Yes. I definitely noticed
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  that and I I think my watch measures my steps
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  funny. I don't know because I did 16 ,000 yesterday
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  but a person I walked like everywhere with had
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  19 ,000. So I kind of was kind of felt and cheated
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  a little bit. And I too have my water bottle
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  in my backpack like right over there. But I think
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  great pieces of advice here too. One of the things
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  that I think is really neat here about the conference
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  also is that they bring in these vendors into
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  the expo area. And do you visit that area much?
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  Yes, I do. Of course. What's the best swag that
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  you have come away from being in that area? You
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  didn't see where that question was going, did
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  you? No, I did not. But I did not come away with
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  it. But I saw these really cool jackets. that
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  Magic School was giving out. Was it at this conference?
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  I don't remember. I do too many conferences.
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  But I just remember these Letterman jackets that
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  Magic School was giving out. I can picture the
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  ones that you're talking about. I don't know
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  if it was last year or the year before. I don't
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  know. That was cool. I should have sat and listened
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  and gotten that. But I did not get it. But best
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  swag, so when my kids were younger, I would love
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  to get the glow balls and all the things and
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  take back to the kids because super dad. But
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  more recently, I know this sounds really cheesy,
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  I got a multi -port. Not charging bank, but a
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  multi -port surge protector. I was like oh I
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  know I'm of that age where yeah, I got a really
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  good surge protector y 'all y 'all better step
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  back So that that's me Perfect and you know last
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  question here, you know David and I are bringing
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  on multiple different people here But is there
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  someone that you think that we should have on
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  and bring in and have a conversation with them?
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  Have you had a conversation with Adam file? No,
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  I think you should bring in Adam. He is Educator
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  out of Georgia. He's currently running for a
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  school board in his area, which is kind of amazing
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  But he's also on the ISTE board. Yeah, and he's
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  a phenomenal guy. He works for all4ed I do believe
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  he left his district a year and a half ago and
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  he's doing amazing things across the country
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  with all4ed and And like I said, he's trying
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  to do some work in his own backyard by running
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  for school board. And I think the conversation
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  with him would be phenomenal. Awesome. Well,
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  we'll definitely look for that and try to find
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  a way to reach out to him. And we just appreciate
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  that you're continuing to do the things. to help
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  spread great news about education and technology.
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  And we just loved having you on as a guest, and
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  we're glad we could bring you back here today.
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  So thank you very much. Thank you again for having
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  me. I appreciate all the time that you all put
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  into this. Yeah. Wonderful. Have a great day.
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  You too.