Yesterday, while presenting our project, Mr. Toft and I decided to have educators and technology experts from all over the world contribute their voices to one song.  Each person was asked to introduce themselves and select a snippet of music. Later that day, Mr. Toft edited the music and voices down to the two minute soundscape you can hear by clicking the link below.

This was an incredible opportunity to create something with voices from all over the world.

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Another busy day.  Our morning started with a tour of Salvador.  We visited a market and had a chance to see some churches that were built in the 1700s.

I really liked this staff but there was no way I could get away with bringing it home on the plane.

The vendor told me it was made out of a sheep’s skull.

Art is for sale all over the place.  I liked this one in particular.

Art was available many shapes and sizes.

Policeman came along with our large tour group.  I think they were there to clear away people begging and making a bad impression on their city.  They aren’t as scary as they look in the picture.

I found something to buy at this stall.

There were many t-shirt designs to choose from.

This one of the churches we visited today.

These tiles are over two hundred years old. They were brought over all the way from Portugal. This church has the largest collection of Portuguese tiles in South America.

In the afternoon we listened to a couple of presentations about ways to get teachers to change how they teach their students. I know there are at least 400 teachers from around the world who are here right now that have a pretty good handle on that.

Part of the afternoon was spent working in small groups to make a lesson that we could all work together on. I’m very luck to be working with a dynamic group of teachers.  They are from Greece, South Africa and Canada.

Tomorrow is the last day of the conference. We have to set up our booth again and visit everyone else’s booth.  The idea is for us to pick a booth as “Teacher’s Favourite”, so we get another chance to see everything.  Each country will cast a ballot of their top three choices.

I have it on good authority that it snowed it Ottawa today.

No snow here. It was 33 degrees and sunny. I had to put on my sunscreen twice.