The crush of people entering the Exhibit Hall at the Georgia World Congress Center this morning was almost frightening. The escalators could not accommodate the sheer numbers of people descending from the street level to the Exhibition Hall. I managed to avoid the melee by finding a side staircase and negotiating my way to the right place.The Exhibit Hall itself was like many high tech trade shows that I have been to in the past, except bigger. All the major players are here: Apple, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Houghton-Mifflin, Pearson, Thomson Interactive and the list goes on…I was able to make connections with a few select companies. For someone like me from a Canadian organization, there is a fair amount of filtering to do. Many of the services and programs that are being pitched here are geared heavily for a U.S. curriculum and for the NETS. Even school administrative tools are not necessarily applicable to our situation in Québec. There were some interesting finds:
- Discovery is launching an online content management tool called “OnePlace”, which is a single sign-on “portal” to a variety of content both local and remote. The beauty of the system (which is worth investigating) is that all of the content, whether local or remote is searchable. The OnePlace system is integrated into services like unitedstreaming.com.
More later!
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