Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

ISTE 2010 – Pictures from Edubloggercon

Scott McLeod

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Two pictures of the Edubloggercon group this year at the ISTE conference (Henry was our youngest participant):

The folks who weren’t able to make the first picture (aka the “straggler group”):

More pictures are on Flickr at the ebc10 tag and/or the iste10 tag and/or the ISTE10 Flickr group.

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