Written by Jonah, age 13.
I have just finished a two day conference with my mom, it was about educational technology and I helped her with some of the stuff she was doing. The first day I went to a couple of sessions. I did a little with “Cover It Live” a website that allows you to stream video and host a chat at the same time. I also sorted out the presenters that canceled because of the weather and edited the website to show that they canceled. My sister who also went, got so engrossed in “Fashion Hack” that she didn't stop for lunch and just had us bring her back some food.
For lunch, I went out with my mom and one of her friends that was at the conference. We went to North Market for lunch. I got a chicken breast from a middle eastern place and some “Ugandan Vanilla Bean” ice cream from Jenny's®.
All of the sessions I went to I had to leave because of computer problems. I had a Mac with me and the sessions I went to required windows software to participate in. One of the sessions I went to was on python (a programing language) and I had to download python but the download was funky on the mac. The other session was on game design and the software required for the class was available for free on windows alone and I wasn't willing to pay for it before I even knew if I was going to like using it to make games or not.
On the second day of the conference I was tasked with getting video interviews with the conference goers, presenters, and exhibitors. At first Dan and I were doing it together, but later it turned into me going and getting the video interviews and Dan doing all of the video editing.
For lunch we went to North Market, this time Tess and Dan came. At lunch, I got the same thing as the previous day and it was just as good the second time around. That day, I didn't go to any sessions because they hadn't gone very well the day before. After lunch was when I started getting the video interviews on my own, and Dan started only being the editor. We started doing this because I couldn't edit the videos and Dan couldn't go out to get the video because he had to do something else for the conference. For the video I interviewed people who were solely viewers, exhibitors, and presenters, I also got to interview one Keynote speaker.
Over all, I got a lot of great interviews and learned a lot.
My mom does some really cool work.
