Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

11-30 ISTE conference keynote update – Chris Lehmann retakes lead over Jeff Piontek

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Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann has retaken the lead over Jeff Piontek.

I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

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