Blog Posts Across NECC 2008

NECC Conclusion

This was my first time attending the NEC Conference and I had a blast! I connected with some amazing people and look forward to collaborating with them in the future! My Student Showcase was a hit, and I was thrilled that Vikki Myers, Senior Multimedia Producer for Professional Growth at Pearson, interviewed my student and me in regards to the impact of technology in the classroom. I look forward to getting that video clip to showcase on here and at my school. What an awesome experience!!! Delet… Continue

Posted by Shanna Falgoust on July 4, 2008 at 3:59pm — No Comments

ISTE's ICOT - Classroom Observation Tool

If you didn't get a chance to see this new tool to assist you with determining teacher integration and instructional practices. Check this site out. Register for free and complete an evaluation about your own instructional practices. http://icot.craftyspace.com/ Teachers and administrators can utilize this tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses in instructional technology practices. I created a short demo for you to see the tool in action. I will post it at my wiki shortly. Continue

Posted by Cheryl Capozzoli on July 3, 2008 at 12:49pm — 1 Comment

More on Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody"...

...on my (other) blog - Education Musings (http://shuchi-edblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-on-shirkys-here-comes-everybody.html) Continue

Posted by Shuchi Grover on July 3, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

NECC 2008 - Personal Thursday Summary

San Antonio Airport, Thursday, 11:20 a.m. Free WiFi Internet Access at the airport! Fully functional. Now that is how it should be done. In the modern world, air, water and wifi should be free. I am really liking this town. In a discussion last night we came to the conclusion that the Riverwalk does have an artificiality that some will find disturbing, but it is still delightfully done. I took multiple strolls which started right at the door to my hotel. I never found time for a boat trip or to… Continue

Posted by Bill Freese on July 3, 2008 at 9:29am — No Comments

NECC 2008 - Personal Wednesday Summary

Offline blogging to post later. Wednesday, July 2, 11:20 pm (with edits Thursday morning in the airport) Long post, with the unbelievable part at the end. Started the day, as each day here in San Antonio, with coffee and croissant from the Starbucks in the lobby. Rather nice, really. First presentation, Second Life with Distance Learners: Virtual Office Hours. The presenter, Abbie Brown of East Carolina University, described his experiences in Second Life, asking if ours were similar. In my… Continue

Posted by Bill Freese on July 3, 2008 at 9:07am — No Comments

EduBloggerCon 2008

A few words about EduBloggerCon 2008 - the "unconference" or rather "collaborative conference" at NECC pulled together by Steve Hargadon. For more on the idea of an "unconference" - check… Continue

Posted by Shuchi Grover on July 2, 2008 at 9:34pm — No Comments

The Collective Over the Individual

It's not about YOU or ME today, it's about US, and what we can accomplish together. That seems to be the big message out at NECC that concluded today. Here's a video of the opening keynote address by David Surowiecki author of… Continue

Posted by Shuchi Grover on July 2, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Bernie Dodge earns a flake in my pageflake

For me personally, it’s always a treat to get to see Bernie Dodge present. He’s unpretentious (no pun intended), entertaining, and is willing to share his ideas and results using practical applications. Today’s presentation on Using Authentic Problems to Scaffold Decision-Making Skills [Session: Spotlight] Wednesday, 7/2/2008, 10:30am–11:30am; HGCC Lila Cockrell Theatre Create opportunities for students to practice decision making in math, social studies, and English. We'll present six… Continue

Posted by David Wong on July 2, 2008 at 6:09pm — No Comments

The Learning Page for Students!

Let me know if you have any questions about The Learning Page for students or would like to begin a discussion about this resource. If you would like to contribute technology integrated lessons or links I would love to hear from you! Continue

Posted by Dr. Delia Pass on July 2, 2008 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Math Session

Just saw an awesome math session. Scott Loomis gave some wonderful real world applications for integrating technology into middle school math classes. I cannot say enough about this session! I learned so much! I am going to stop in and purchase his book before I leave. He and his wife have books for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6-8th grade. Continue

Posted by Alicia Jenkins on July 2, 2008 at 7:54am — 1 Comment

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Posted by Meiyu Fu on July 1, 2008 at 8:13pm — No Comments

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Posted by Meiyu Fu on July 1, 2008 at 7:43pm — No Comments

Hal Davidson media matters after all

What most teachers want is technology that supports the objectives they are trying to achieve or possibly solve a problem provided that the technology doesn’t dramatically change their work flow. Well, that’s what Hal Davidson presented today, It’s in your pocket: Teaching spectacularly with cell phones, I have to say it’s been awhile since I’ve peeked at the discovery.com’s site and in particular Hal’s list of toys or techniques but it’s time to revisit them.… Continue

Posted by David Wong on July 1, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

NECC 2008 - Personal Tuesday Summary

Put on the red shirt, cowboy boots and hat so I would look more like my avatar. It worked. Everybody who saw one of us and then the other made the connection. Spent 9 to 2 and 3 to 4 at the Second Life Playground bringing folks into SL, guiding them to ISTE Islands, answering a million questions. Wore my throat out. Feet got sore. Had a blast. That 2 to 3 break was to attend Maggie Marat / Paggy Sheehy's presentation about Ramapo school in Second Life. A review of amazing things I already knew,… Continue

Posted by Bill Freese on July 1, 2008 at 4:35pm — 1 Comment

NECC 2008 - Personal Monday Summary

Offline blogging for later posting. Monday 7:22 a.m. Hotel radio alarm has four preset radio stations and no other tuner. The four presets are silence, static, Christian talk radio not quite tuned in correctly and some sort of music of the weird. The ice machine down the hall is fully charged with ice, but there is no ice bucket in the room. A notice on a card in the room says, "Can you sigh backward? Our hotels have a smoke free policy. We want all Marriott® guests to enjoy a smoke-free room.… Continue

Posted by Bill Freese on July 1, 2008 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Liveblogging Chris Lehman's UBD session

This was a great session. It was an excellent model of how to present information and engage the audience in a meaningful, participative experience. Chris started the session with 25 minutes or so of presentation on the approach of SLA and the approach of understanding by design. Then he launched into an activity in which the audience as a group designed… Continue

Posted by Karen Fasimpaur on July 1, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Fantastic Freebies for Frustrated Faculty

Website http://www.georgiastandards.org/ They call this their "one stop shop for teachers" and for Georgia teachers it might be ... for the rest of us the best part is the search on the front page (in the middle section). You can search by Standards, Resources, Keywords, Grade level, and or Subject (Sci, MAth, ELA, Soc. St). Best quote from presentation: "We don't want you to have to create the world just use the wonderful things that are already out there! Other links mentioned: http://ww… Continue

Posted by Cindi on July 1, 2008 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Will Richardson and Company go fishing….

This workshop - Powerful Learning communities – Creating online communities for professional dev - Will Richardson & Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach promised, okay promised is such a strong word, to provide a wealth of opportunities for educators to provide powerful learning communities as well as learn about the tools and pedagogies for success. Not so. Will did a nice job reminding us how the world is changing, how students interact in ways with other groups even while in our physical presen… Continue

Posted by David Wong on July 1, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Transcript: Social Media & Education Session

There was a great back channel conversation during the Social Networks and Education panel earlier today here at NECC. It was a lively discussion and there were lots of tips, suggestions and other good ideas shared among the group. Here's a copy of the transcript (pdf). Enjoy! Continue

Posted by Derek Baird on July 1, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Be the face of ISTE ... ?

I just finished having my picture taken professionally while here at NECC ... how you ask? ... when I was supposed to be attending a conference? Well the 1st day we were here in San Antonio I was sitting outside of the opening session, watching it on a big screen with my colleagues, and Susan Larson came and ambushed me with a card and asked my to come have my picture taken. I was taken off guard and just said yes. Well come to find out Susan is an ISTE Affiliate Program Director and is taking… Continue

Posted by Cindi on July 1, 2008 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Kathy Schrock rocks again…

Of course, I was a few minutes late.. But she’s so organized to catch me up. First, Kathy discussed her use of Adobe Connect briefly being an Adobe Education leader which gets her free use of software provided she leads workshops in Adobe tools. This sounds similar to being a Google educator except that Google apps are FREE and I guess the advantage is you get to continue to use them free? Still, if you’ve used Adobe’s apps. What can you say? They work so darn well. Kathy Schrock’s presentation… Continue

Posted by David Wong on July 1, 2008 at 11:31am — 2 Comments

Integrating Virtual Manipulative into Elementary Mathematics Classrooms

Sitting in Session n08s502 - Integrating Virtual Manipulative into Elementary Mathematics Classroom and Drew and Clif are doing a great job! Check out http://drewpolly.wetpaint.com/ and look for NECC on the left! Continue

Posted by Cindi on July 1, 2008 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

NECC

This is my first time at NECC! I am having so much fun! Continue

Posted by Alicia Jenkins on July 1, 2008 at 8:47am — No Comments

I just left the Tuesday Keynote and holy Man!

Jim and Mali were awesome. My district has a very robust network and we are streaming video conference classes through out our jurisdiction. We have been very focused inward with a few VC sessions from museums and the Canadian space agency. We need to get involved with iearn and start to connect our kids. This was truly inspiring! Ideas floating in my brain around this were reading projects between classrooms, a social studies collaboration project with war ravaged areas, The footprints project,… Continue

Posted by sean loughed on July 1, 2008 at 8:36am — No Comments

Classroom Mashup: Engaging Student Imaginations 3D virtual world + Interactive Whiteboard + Wiimote (Pt. 3)

3rd part - virtual worlds - interactive whiteboard - & encouraging imagination & discovery. Continue

Posted by Rich White on July 1, 2008 at 8:27am — No Comments

Keynote on Tuesday

I'm watching the keynote and being inspired by these two teachers who do connecting projects with their kids to the world. The stories are the stuff of buy in and the kinds of inspirations that go for the heart in educators. These "conversational lubricants" are in my view the essential elements that start and maintain a movement. Continue

Posted by Kevin Honeycutt on July 1, 2008 at 7:18am — 2 Comments

Getting started with Google Earth again...

This BYOL workshop - Breathing Life into Your Curriculum: Google Earth Advanced Placemarks -was one of the few workshops I was actually able to attend yesterday. The presenters, Susan Anderson and Jim Holland, were lively and knowledgeable about extending the placemarking feature of Google Earth. In particular, they demonstrated how to customize the Google Earth balloons to include stylized fonts, hyperlinks, inserting pictures, and even hiding the dreaded “directions to and from” links.… Continue

Posted by David Wong on July 1, 2008 at 6:45am — No Comments

The audience saves the day....

The title said "Energize your classroom with Google tools" by Cristin Frodella & Andrew Chang Supposedly, we were going to get a tour of examples of the most innovative uses of Google tools. Instead, they told us why Google docs was formed (a need for more colloborative work and shring), the basics of what each of the tools do, e.g, spreadsheets, docs, presentations, etc. Boring if you already know that. In terms of their presentation, I think they underestimated their audience. Instead, t… Continue

Posted by David Wong on June 30, 2008 at 6:01pm — No Comments

CoSN and Global Connections

It has been an eventful start to NECC so far. There is lots of information to process and remember when I return to the real world of MOREnet. The day started out at a CoSN sponsored event on Digital Media and the role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The meeting was well attended. I don’t think CoSN was expecting an audience of about 80-100 people. The session started with the panelists discussing their situations with technology. A very bright group of people with lots of experience in… Continue

Posted by Eric Nicklas on June 30, 2008 at 2:05pm — No Comments

Literacy Isn't Enough: Digital Fluency in the Age of Infowhelm - Ian Jukes

Ian provided a very interesting and informative research-based session. He covered a lot in one hour. Here's what I captured. We are not the same as our students! Digital is a second language • The brains of the digital world natives are physiologically wired differently than those of pre-digital native times. • At birth the brain is only 50% wired. The rest of the wiring occurs as we grow… and can change. This is backed up by research! Ian’s main points: • New scanning models allow new looks… Continue

Posted by Eric Nicklas on June 30, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 wiki resources

We had a great time at the Web 2.0 All-You-Can-Eat Buffet workshop in San Antonio. All of the resources we shared are available for anyone to access, share, and use in any setting in the Web 2.0 All-You-Can-Eat Buffet wiki. … Continue

Posted by Karen Fasimpaur on June 30, 2008 at 12:58pm — 1 Comment

Today at NECC

So as I try to enter the first three am sessions that I found interesting, it seemed near impossible. I was not even that late, but the rooms were completely full. Finally presented my web 2.0 tools at my wiki http://web20guru.wikispaces.com and had a blast sharing the tools and strategies for anyone who is interested in effectively integrating online productivty tools and resources. After my pres. I moved on to the vendors. Saw and met some of my favorites. Teachertube, kerpoof, and Apengea Lea… Continue

Posted by Cheryl Capozzoli on June 30, 2008 at 12:35pm — 1 Comment

sittin in or maybe sitting out

Well, It's nice to see such cheery folks again here at NECC 08. So many people and vendors and lots of things to visit. Too bad that most of the BYOL sessions require that you stand in line 40-45 minutes ahead of time to get a seat. So, you have to be real picky about which ones you choose and which ones you take a chance on getting into. Table PCs have moved more into vogue with ISTE's pubs sporting books that teachers can purchase on how to incorporate them into the classroom. That's nice if… Continue

Posted by David Wong on June 30, 2008 at 12:13pm — 1 Comment

And we're off...

Rats. I had a blog post of yesterday ready to go and it's gone so I will recreate it. Also the wireless network at the conference center combined with my old laptop just don't want me to be connected at conference with the theme "Connect". Oh well.

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Posted by Eric Nicklas on June 30, 2008 at 10:36am — 1 Comment

NECC 2008 - Personal Sunday Summary

Offline blogging for later posting. 8:24 a.m. Sunday, June 29, Salt Lake City airport. Flight from Bozeman was perfect. Cloudless day. Fantastic views of he mountains. Dawn flights have great light, deep shadows showing up all the contours of the land. One keeps seeing things one would like to swoop down on for a better look. Lakes down low are all blue and shimmery. Lakes up high are all white and crystalline, still waiting for summer thaw. At SLC we landed right on our shadow. Airports seem… Continue

Posted by Bill Freese on June 30, 2008 at 10:19am — No Comments

eMINTS-Fresh Breath for Integrating Technology

Watching this classroom in the round type presentation was a great way to see tech integration in practice--and I'm guessing experiencing it as a "student" was even more powerful. eMINTS looks like a fantastic structure for providing teachers with the training they need--including ongoing opportunities over time that focus on practical strategies for immediate use. A superb program. Continue

Posted by Kristi Baldwin on June 30, 2008 at 7:26am — No Comments

Moodle

This is my first NECC and my first session was closed 30 minutes early. I wish someone had told me to arrive an hour early to sessions. I am discouraged. It looks like Moodle is very hot this year! Continue

Posted by Cheryl Sawyer on June 30, 2008 at 6:55am — No Comments

Problem-Based Learning and Paideia

I am interested in connecting with teachers, admin, state dept. folks who are working with PBL and/or Paideia Methology. PBL is one of my 21st Century skills focus projects, and I would like to talk shop, share ideas, and engage in discussion. In addition, I am a member of the Paideia National Faculty, and would like to connect with anyone using Paideia. Is there anyone out there? Continue

Posted by Bob Alexander on June 30, 2008 at 6:54am — No Comments

SnapStream TV distribution and search software (my company!)

I'm the founder of SnapStream, a software company based in Houston, TX and as a first time NECC-er (we're exhibitors -- on the floor in booth #3034) I thought I'd introduce our technology. We make a technology that's relatively new that allows organizations (including K-12 schools and universities) to record lots of TV and then search inside that television -- all from any des… Continue

Posted by Rakesh Agrawal on June 30, 2008 at 4:31am — No Comments

Chinese Students Get Math Boost with Logo

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Posted by Meiyu Fu on June 29, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The Wisdom of Crowds - Did you miss the opening keynote? - Read about it here.

If you missed the opening keynote by James Surowiecki, author of "The Wisdom of Crowds", you can check out a precis here ... http://jamiesonkane.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/the-wisdom-of-crowds/ :) Jamie Continue

Posted by Jamieson Kane on June 29, 2008 at 8:37pm — No Comments

NECC day 1 - afternoon

The "Oodles of Google" workshop pointed out how far the open-source/free/web-based apps have come in a short time. The Google tools really focus on collaboration and anywhere-anytime access. The model for how we (need to) teach students to work is changing fast. Makes more sense to put $$ into a fast, relaible internet connection and focus less on server-based and computer-based applications. Continue

Posted by Jeff Johnson on June 29, 2008 at 2:45pm — No Comments

ABC's of Advocacy

(notes are mostly for me -- may be somewhat cryptic) Worked from Jason Ohler's Story Core - word file is accessible on the Advocacy wiki. Stories must have some element of transformation - that is what engages the reader/audience. Transformation between old you and new you. Use storyboard to quickly articulate problems and transformations. Need quick, effective stories to talk to legislators, decision makers. Example: student achievement story 4 problems: (barriers) a. high school students rea… Continue

Posted by Julie Mathiesen on June 29, 2008 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Sunday was booooooring

Becky and I sat side by side in the front row of "Technology Tools for 21C Learners." The presenter waited 40 minutes to introduce himself because he didn't know that his anticipatory set software app was limited to 10 users logged in at a time and he gave up after 40 minutes. Note to self: Next time hurry out. Gayle spent the day thrilled at the podcasting workshop. The room had standard hotel padded straight chairs, and the provided computers were very nice iMac duos (where the monitor IS the… Continue

Posted by Echol Marshall on June 29, 2008 at 1:32pm — 2 Comments

Collaborating through Blogging Triads Workshop - June 29, 2008

June 29 - 12:30-3:30 Triad - CIT, Librarians, and Administrators Focus on Science today since their students were weak in this area of content Research For more details please visit the http://tieteach.blogspot.com Continue

Posted by Marcia Torgrude on June 29, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

SIGIVC

I attended the interactive video conferencing workshop this morning. I met some very helpful people today including a ten year old author Adora Svitak. This young girl was a very articulate speaker and will be autographing her books at the TANDBERG booth 2PM Tuesday. Continue

Posted by Barry Williams on June 29, 2008 at 12:21pm — No Comments

EduBloggerCon Rocked!

It's over for another year and that makes me sad but Steve and the crew did an outstanding job of allowing good friends who've never met in person to get together and stretch their thinking. I met amazing people and had time to really talk. I am grateful for this ongoing opportunity and know that as it grows and evolves it will only get better. Continue

Posted by Kevin Honeycutt on June 29, 2008 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Videoconferencing

NECC Session - Sunday. June 28, 2008 Designing Quality Interactive Classroom Projects for Videoconferencing Presenter: Janine Lim We need to invite Janine to Illinois to present to LTC directors. Continue

Posted by Mary A. Warren on June 29, 2008 at 10:48am — 1 Comment

Monday dinner

The Blue Star Brewery is ready and waiting for us tomorrow night. 6 pm open - dinner looks great. It is about a mile from the CC - use the blue trolley line. See you all there - we have over 80 signed up! Sharon Continue

Posted by Sharon Betts on June 29, 2008 at 7:42am — 1 Comment

NECC day 1

Heading out to workshop #1 "Technology Policy: Keeping Your School—and You—Out of Trouble" Larry "It's AWLL Good" Anderson is a fellow ADE; I can think of no one in education more qualified than Dr. A to lead this workshop. Looking forward to it and coming away with a better AUP! Continue

Posted by Jeff Johnson on June 29, 2008 at 6:26am — 1 Comment

WebQuest Magic

Bernie Dodge has started a new Ning called, "WebQuest Dialog." Here's his intro for it:

It's been some time since the forum on the WebQuest.org site has been operational. It had to be taken down because spammers had taken over much of the board and cleaning up after them was becoming a major time sink. Let's hope we have better luck here. There's lots to talk about in the WebQuest realm and the growing educator community on Ning seems to be a great place to do it. Come on in and sta…

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Posted by Miguel Guhlin on June 28, 2008 at 8:37pm — No Comments

Share Your Diigo Success Stories

Not sure how it happened, but Maggie Tsai has talked me into sharing about Diigo.com, the awesome social bookmarking/annotating tool. I hope that they've worked through the WebSlides audio challenges--which I've had trouble trouble-shooting all the way in South Texas at the beach, woohoo!--but I'm looking forward to that. The session title is "Diigo Success Stories," and you can find it at the Bloggers' Cafe at: http://plannecc2008.iste.wikispaces.net/Bloggers+Cafe It will be taking place July… Continue

Posted by Miguel Guhlin on June 28, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Keeping up with Twitter, Pounce, Plurkle

Any one service would be enough, but all 3 at once? Sheesh. It's overkill...however, it's nice to be able to keep track of all of them using HelloTxt (thanks to n2teaching for the tip!). Now, if only there were a GNU/Linux and Mac application that would work! Thanks to Alec Couros for his tip on using Summize.com instead of Tweetscan.com...however, wouldn't it be neat to have an integrated search engine that worked with multiple services as well? Continue

Posted by Miguel Guhlin on June 28, 2008 at 8:27pm — No Comments

Saturday Evening...dinner and a movie

and the movie is "The Alamo" I walked around the Riverwalk, found the place Andy said to eat dinner at. Dicks. Like everyplace here on the riverwalk, was packed. I did find a nice, elegant little place that specializes in fish, and thought about bringing the DL Team here for dinner, maybe Tues night. As it happens, I found my way back here hours later and did have dinner. Continue

Posted by Echol Marshall on June 28, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

XO chat/video share at NECC

If anyone is interested in joining in an XO chat or video share while at NECC, I'll be keeping a chat invitation out there and open for you to join. Often. And occasionally a video/photo share. To connect, you need to set your XO to the same jabber server: school.letschange.org - don't you love it? Here's how: In Terminal, type: sugar-control-panel -s jabber school.letschange.org hit enter hit control/alt/erase to restart sugar Once you get your Internet connection started up again, check t… Continue

Posted by Mark Ahlness on June 28, 2008 at 6:29pm — No Comments

A Great Start at the San Antonio Teacher Forum

The reason I came into town on the earlier side was to participate in a San Antonio-area teacher forum hosted by the local Time Warner cable system. About 130 K-12 teachers and a handful of administrators participated in a 4 hour event this morning dedicated to exposing them to new media and technology resources freely available for use in their classroom. In addition to giving them an overview of Cable i… Continue

Posted by Doug Levin on June 28, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Virtual Learning

From half a world away I can hopefully feel more like I am part of what is happening in San Antonio. I am helping Maria Knee with her Voicethread which is nice. http://voicethread.com/#u12494.b89263.i454675 And I have a couple of Kiwis who are there for real Go Andrew and Dorothy. Anyone else?? Continue

Posted by Allanah KIng on June 28, 2008 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Texas, here I come!

Heading to San Antonio tomorrow. For now I'm getting things ready and researching great things to do in San Antonio. Can't wait to see some of the awesome sessions! I plan to check out Bernajean Porter's poster session Digitales: The Art of Digital Storytelling. Another s… Continue

Posted by Jill Hobson on June 28, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

In San Antonio

And I thought it was sultry at home...San Antonio is 100° making Milwaukee's weather seem chilly by comparsion. Have a nice room on the 11th floor with a lovely view of an old SA hotel and lots of newer places to stay. Off to explore the RiverWalk and make some acquaintences. And have a cold beer! Continue

Posted by Jeff Johnson on June 28, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

ISTE Affiliate Meeting - June 27

Some links you might want to check out include: http://edtechactionnetwork.org/ - the EdTechAction Network http://community.cue.org/ - This organization is now using Ning for their main website. Community Networking Session: The discussion included Second Life and Ning. For the notes I took for the affiliate group on this session, please go to… Continue

Posted by Marcia Torgrude on June 28, 2008 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Live blogging EBC 2008-Part 6

Web 2.0 in Teacher Education Redesiging teacher education program -- What technology should be included? "Scared to use the term Web 2.0" -- what term better phrases what they need to learn? Answer: Read-write web New pre-service teachers don't have the skills we assume they have like how to make a web page. "I've actually seen a decrease in income student tech literacy." They don't know what we think they know. Analogy of cooking -- first you need the basic ingredients, then you can a… Continue

Posted by Karen Fasimpaur on June 28, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Live blogging EBC 2008-Part 5

If the Leaders Don't Get It, It's Not Going to Happen Opening question: Do we have a perspective on what issues leaders are facing? Discussion of "managing up" What does it take to educate students for the 21st century leaders? What do we want to accomplish? What is the right thing to do? "Current school culture doesn't value LEADERS, but ADMINISTRATORS." [This is so true...I have heard so many principals say 'Curriculum isn't my thing.' They should all be fired.] "Everyone wants to… Continue