Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

My ISTE 2010 keynote topic suggestion just tipped 1,000 votes

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Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion. Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic suggestion is leading, but that lead is far from safe. If you haven’t yet voted, would you kindly do so in the next few days? Thanks in advance!

Here are the top 5 topic suggestions to date:

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