Kalpana Kishorekumar

Microsoft in Education - Global Forum 2014

@ Barcelona

 

What a forum.... I feel immensely blessed to attend such a forum! I Can't even get the opning keynote of Anthony Salicito from my head, he began by saying "If you want to improve Educational outcomes, take care of teachers." How true the statement is!!! 

 

Our Brunei Team reached Barcelona on the 10th March and we were so excited about this Forum! True to the word 'Microsoft' kept their name by organising interesting tracks for both educators and School Leaders / Policymakers.

 

Day 1 :

 An interesting day to begin the forum, i met my Learn - a thon Group members and the Day 1 Session started with Razan briefing us what to expect in the forum and the one and only Tracy Immel gave us some new insights and some great activities to practice our 21st Century skills. And there comes this Juding time........All eductors were amazingly busy and i was in awe about the projects showcased in the Forum.

 

Day 2:

 It was a great day and i was able to learn some new cool stuff especially from the 'APP Man - Stuart Ball'. Enjoyed the session with Office briefing and the the Keynote by Anthony Salcito. The judging session continued and by 2.30 pm we all cleared our booths. It was the pitch Competition that caught so much attention.