CoSN Day 2: White House CTO Fires Up for Innovation

March 2nd, 2010 admin

Editor’s Note: Don’t miss David’s dispatch from Day 1. My second day at the CoSN Conference , also known as Consortium of School Networking, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in northwest Washington, D.C., was almost as enlightening as the first. Especially, when I discovered that the Shoreham Hotel is where the Beatles stayed at the height of their Beatlemania tour in 1964. David Markus, Edutopia's editorial director, reports on Day 2 of the 9th


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