Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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The reason for f2f
Nov 10th
Back in Bangkok and still making sense of what happened last week. Two conferences with a total of 13 presentations and a 102.8F fever in between.
The one idea that keeps running through my head is this:
What is the reason we gather Face to Face?
There is a reason we like going to conference, there is a reason why students like coming to school (and it’s not to be by oneself) there is a reason we want students in a class. What is that reason?
What is the reason we gather face to face when content can be found 24/7/365?
What is the More >
Three Gems for the day
Aug 5th
I use to look over people’s blogs that had del.icio.us post linking to all the things they bookmarked that day. I use to think that this was a waste of my time, that those links are just links.
Then I actually started reading some.
Which lead to clicking on some.
Which now has me waiting for people like Dean and Tim to post their next round.
The great part is I know I don’t have to read them everyday. I wait until I have five or six days worth of links from Dean and Tim and then I go at it clicking and opening tabs.
Basically I’m using More >
Learning 2.008 Conference and EdubloggerCon Shanghai
May 9th
We had a great planning meeting last night looking at the latest numbers for the conference. Not a good sign when we have more presentations then people registered for the conference.
I’m not to worried at this point, but then again I’m not the one in charge of the money. This is why there aren’t many educational conferences in September. The timing just isn’t good. Schools are just now really looking at finances for next year and many teachers are not sure what their PD funds will look like until they get back in August. That, with the fact that More >
