Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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Blogs as Web Based Portfolios Part 1
Apr 27th
(Part 1 of a series of blog posts to be made into a free PDF. Your feedback, ideas and thoughts are critical!)
The PurposeThe purpose of this PDF is to help schools looking at adopting Web Based Portfolios (WBP) as a form of assessment with students over a period of time. By adopting a web-based platform as a container in which to house portfolio content, schools give students a web-based vehicle with endless possibilities to create, collaborate and communicate their learning to the world.
All-In-One Assessment Vehicle
Web Based Portfolios have been gaining ground in recent years as the skills needed to create More >
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 >
EARCOS Admin Tech Cohort – Reflection
Nov 6th
50+ Administrators talking about skllls needed in the new workplace
Back at work and reflecting on the tech cohort that I tried to run at the EARCOS Admin Conference. I talked about it here and what my hopes were for the group. It’s the first time I’ve tried to embedd a cohort in a traditional conference model and to be honest I had very limited success.
We met as a cohort during the first session. I was excited to meet the 33 admin who had signed up ahead of time to be apart of the project. During the first session we had 50+ people More >
I don’t like Learning Alone!
Mar 30th
I’m back from the ETC (EARCOS Teacher’s Conference) in Kota Kinabalua, Malaysia. Where I did four presentations as well as watched Kim Cofino pack them in for her Connecting Across Continents presentation.
It’s the first conference that I’ve gone to where I truly did not “do” the conference. Other than my own four presentations I only went to two others….one if you don’t count Kim’s.
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why I didn’t feel motivated to go to more sessions. I like learning so what was my problem?
Then it hit me…..I don’t like learning alone!
The Internet was horrible…when it did work More >
Thoughts on conferences
Jul 1st
So the first full day of NECC 2008 comes to an end and I find myself thinking more about conferences, how to create them, manage them, and make them relevant to participants then I thought I would. Have I mentioned the conference we’re doing in Shanghai?
I’ve been thinking a lot about spaces and how important it is to create spaces for learning and conversing at the conference. Today I ran into cognitive overload. Ewan McIntosh does a beautiful job of explaining exactly how I was feeling today.
At one point I literally had to find a quiet corner in the Hyatt to just More >
TED 2008 and other conferences
Feb 28th
The TED conference is getting ready to kick off here shortly and as it does. I know I speak for all those that post here at U Tech Tips when I say that the videos and the thinking that comes from TED is mind numbing. As I read and prepare for TED I was reminded of this video from Sir Ken Robinson. A video that every educator should take 19 minutes out of their day to watch.
Not only is TED about ready to begin. But there are some other great conferences that are ready getting ready to start. Thanks to David More >
