NASA/NSTA

   Everybody loves an acronym...right?  I spent the last week at NASA lunar educational workshops and the NSTA (National Science Teacher's Association) conference in Boston.  To be honest, the NSTA conference was very overwhelming.  There were sooo many people and booths.  It seemed that every booth was trying to sell an educational "product" of some kind, so I had to approach with caution.  I don't really have any money to spend or a classroom to spend it on, so the vendors didn't like me very much.  I did see the Toyota trumpet playing robot.  (Very cool... but also very creepy).  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqubUfKrDIY&feature=related>.  There was lots of talk about technology at the conference, but I didn't pick up on too much Web 2.0 stuff.  A good idea I did hear was to create wikis centered around curriculum.  As teachers modified and tried out the lessons, they could post comments and revisions to a common wiki.