Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged conversations
NECC is about conversations
Jul 1st
As Day 2 of the conference gets started I’m sitting here in the Blogger’s Cafe reflecting on Day 1.
As usual I spent most of my time at the Blogger’s Cafe chatting with new and old friends alike.
I did go to one session yesterday. Scott McLeod’s session on disruptive innovations.
Now I went to the session to support Scott and to hear what he had to say, but really I could have found the content he was presenting on the web at his K12online presentation.
We talk about how content is out there, how if you want to, you can find the content. More >
Don’t try to control it
Nov 28th
A comment left by Dan Christian yesterday on my post about the changing landscape of blogging. Has me back here thinking about my job as an educational technologist.
First I think we need to understand how I view my job and what I think the job of an educational technologist should include.
First and foremost we are educators. Our job is to educate. Our students range in age from 60+ to less than 5 years old. Our mission is to teach them how to use technology to learn, create, be more productive or make a task easier. The only way we can do More >
The changing landscape of blogging
Nov 26th
What? My Technorati Authority rating is down to 188? Wait? How? It was at 198 just hours ago? To make matters worse it was at 251 in June.
What happened? Where did all the links go?
Don’t worry…I have a theory…here me out.
First of all please do not think that I am all hung up on my ranking within the edublog community. No, I just find the whole thing fascinating. So here’s my thought.
Learning 2.008: No Stage, just conversations
Sep 17th
1. Before someone talks you into creating/organizing/hosting a conference make sure you’re prepared for the work ahead.
2. Once you are prepared for the work, double the time you think it will take, multiple that by two, and then you might be close.
3. Always remember you are doing this to better education (or educators) or so you hope.
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It’s the day before the conference starts and big thanks to my Principal and ISB for giving me the week off to be here in Shanghai to finish planning for the conference. I really don’t know how I would have done it otherwise.
There are about More >
A Problem with Blogs cont’d…
Mar 22nd
This week at techlearning I’ve continued the conversation I started last week about the Problem with Blogs. After reading and reflecting on the comments left by others…I’ve updated my thinking on the subject and give further thought to some of the comments.
Here’s a taste of the new image:
[tags]conversations, blogs, 21st Century Learning[/tags]
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Watching the Millennials in action part 2
Nov 8th
The middle schoolers of teentek, and all our middle schoolers for that matter, are HUGE into this flash game.
Monday I couldn’t keep the boys off of it. Every time I turned aroundsomeone had it open and was playing it. So I took a step back into thecorner of the room and just watched (Seriously…I went and stood inthe corner!) I watched as they slowly opened the game back up andstarted playing, I observed them, watching their actions andinteractions with the game:
“You made this level?”“Yep!”“How’d you do that?”“There’s a level builder you can download and create your own levels for the More >
