Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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ISTE 2010 – Reflections
Jun 30th
I have 30 minutes before I leave for the airport and head back to Seattle for what’s left of my summer vacation.
As I reflect on this years ISTE conference a couple things come to mind.
WiFi:A HUGE shout out to the organizers and the Convention Center. By far this has been the best WiFi access at any ISTE conference since I’ve been coming (this is my 5th). It was slow at times, but overall the ability to keep a connection running among 13,000+ geekie educators was very smooth. I hope it stays this way in the future.
iPads:They were everywhere! I know they More >
What’s Your Container?
Mar 29th
What I love about presenting is how themes emerge within my presentations that I was never thinking about before the conference begins. But somewhere in the process of doing 6 presentations at the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference a theme in my sessions emerged. What is your container?
We talked in many of my sessions about having a container to house all of your web “stuff”. What that contain looks like really doesn’t matter as long as:
A. It works for youB. It allows EVERYTHING to be embeded
When you create a “class container” think of it as not just a place to actually put More >
Do you support People or Platforms?
Mar 20th
As I sit here in my hotel room an hour away from starting my official Apple Distinguished Educators (ADE) training this question keeps popping into my head.
Do you support People or Platforms?Flickr ID: Wader
It’s an interesting question…that I continue to reflect on. We all have strengths and weaknesses in the computer programs/platforms that we know. But do we some time support the platform rather than the people?
Is there a difference?
Can you support people without supporting a platform?
Just some questions that are running through my head as I start my 5 day training on everything Apple.
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Conference Week
Mar 17th
So let me cut through the smoke and mirrors and really tell you why this coming week is important to me.
Simple….on Tripit.com I’m trailing David Warlick in the number of countries I’ve traveled to this year. As an International Educator….that’s just wrong!
I won’t pass David this coming week but I’ll tie him going into the opening of Baseball Season and we all know from there it’s a whole new ball game.
This coming week I’ll start my travels in Singapore where I’ll be brainwashed attending the Apple Distinguished Educators Asia Institute. I was suppose to attend here in Bangkok last year, but thanks to More >
Learning 2.010 Conference: Where do we go from here?
Feb 3rd
For the 3rd year David Gran has created the logo for the conference. This year taking inspiration from the World Expo which will be happening during the conference in Shanghai.
In a world where content is continually changing, and you can learn almost anything for free, what’s the point of going to a conference?
This is the question we started with in designing your Learning 2.010 Conference experience. The content is free and easy. If you want to learn how to use Facebook in your classroom, a simple search on Google will bring you back many hits on how teachers are finding ways More >
Changing Conference Models
Oct 27th
In a weeks time I’ll be in Manila, Philippines to attend the EARCSO Administrators Conference. This will be the third year I’ve presented at the conference…guess it a good thing they invite me back every year.
This year though I’m trying something different. With the permission of the head of EARCOS. I asked if I could set up a cohort of administrators who might want to go deep in learning about leadership in a digital world. Of course I didn’t even know at the time if any administrators in the region would want to do such a thing. Imagine being More >
Final Thoughts on TEP09
Oct 21st
I’m back in Bangkok and have had a couple days to really think about what this conference was trying to do, and where do we go from here.
The second day of the conference offered some deeper conversations for me. First was a session on eLearning in which I was able to give an 8 minute talk on how eLearning is and can be used in K-12 education. I was one of nine people given 8 minutes to talk and overall a well received session that highlighed ways to use eLearning in classrooms and at schools. Moodle was mentioned the most as More >
The Educational Project Bahrain
Oct 14th
Tomorrow I talk off for what looks to be a great three days in the Middle East. It will be my first time back to the Arabian Peninsula since we left Saudi Arabia in 2005. Needless to say I’m brushing up on the few words of Arabic that I know.
It’s an honor to be invited. The Education Project was set up by H.H. Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, The Crown Prince of Bahrain and Chairman of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board. The objective of the conference is to:
look at solutions for the gap in quality of the global education system. The Project More >
