Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged NECC 2007
NECC07: All over but the flight
Jun 29th
As I sit here in the airport waiting for my flight to leave, I’m reflecting on “what just happened?”
I’ve been thinking about my experience at this year’s conference compared to last years. In my eyes I don’t even think you can compare the two. Maybe it was my outlook on the conference…but I think it has to do more with the way this conference was set up.
EdubloggerCon was a great kickoff to the conference…it started conversations that carried through the Blogger Café and into Will Richardson’s Spotlight session Wednesday Morning. This lounge area was created as a place to charge up More >
Drupal: Content Management for the Web 2.0 World
Jun 27th
Presenter: Brett Hinton
an Open Source Content Management System (CMS)
You can set Drupal to allow sign up without a e-mail….that’s a good thing for schools who do not have student e-mail accounts.
Drupal allows you to have a wiki, blog, podcasts all in one CMS system.
I really like drupal but need to spend some more time setting it up, hacking it up, and adding good modules.
What Drupal modules in your opinion are a must have?
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My Thoughts: Tuesday at NECC
Jun 27th
What a day!
Like yesterday’s post there was way to much information for my brain to process all in one day but here is random thoughts that I’m still wrestling with.
Skype Notes: Below you can read the notes that 5 of us took via a session this morning. To be honest the session wasn’t all that good…but Skype allowed us to ask those question and thoughts we have in real time and allow others to feed of them, expand them, and take them in new directions. If you have ever taken notes during a presentation, you know though questions you have that you More >
Panel Forum: New Tools, New Schools: Starting the Conversation about Web 2.0
Jun 27th
My Screen during this session
[9:21:56 AM] Jeff Utecht added Brian Crosby to this chat[9:22:11 AM] Jeff Utecht added Vinnie Vrotny to this chat[9:22:27 AM] Jeff Utecht says: Let’s do it![9:22:48 AM] David Jakes says: This should be very interesting[9:23:15 AM] Vinnie Vrotny says: and now we know why so many kids are being diagnosed with add[9:23:31 AM] Jeff Utecht says: for sure[9:24:01 AM] Jeff Utecht says: OK..I’m thinking that we have a great discussion here and then I’ll post it to the blog afterwards….everyone OK with that?[9:24:12 AM] Brian Crosby says: OK[9:24:11 AM] Vinnie Vrotny says: no problems[9:24:13 AM] David More >
School 2.0 : Technology and the Future of Schools
Jun 26th
Presenter Timothy Magner
School 2.0 website. (A must read!)
Cell phones allow you to call a person not a place
65.4% of U.S. population own cell phones.
Average U.S. home has 26 different media devices
Wired teen population surges at the 7th grade
44% of boys 79% of girls online in 6th grade
e-mail is a fixture -IM is preferred
79% of teens report helping adults do something online that they couldn’t do themselves.
Use to customizing everything
US youth lag much of the world in use of mobile devices to connect to the Internet
Showing poster of School 2.0 (from link above)
“We’re creating the future together!”
Question: Top two challenges for schoolsAnswer: More >
My Thoughts: Monday at NECC
Jun 26th
There has been so much learning going on the last couple of days. I’m trying to work through it all, but my main processor (my brain) is running slow trying to understand what all this new knowledge, new thinking means.
Why are we afraid of failure? We teach our kids that we learn through failure but when it comes to use taking risks, trying something new we don’t because we’re afraid others will laugh if we fail. Or maybe for administrators: if you take the risk to try something new and test scores don’t improve you risk your job?
We know More >
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
Jun 26th
Presenter Mitchel Resnick
People complain about schools but not about Kindergarden.
Creative learning spiral
ImagineCreatePlayShareReflectImagine
Develop technology with a Low Floor and High CeilingsDevelop technology with Wide Walls
Telling some great stories of what students have created through a MIT program. Iceland, Singapore, US. Amazing products!
Showing off Scratch (If you haven’t downloaded and played with the program…do it! Actually download it and give it to a kid….they’ll master if before you will. )
Scratch is AWESOME!-Drag and drop pictures from the internet.
Is technology “tinkerable” (a.k.a hackable?)
Cricket being released today.
We need to develop critical thinkers. In Kindergarten we allow student to explore and tinker. After kindergarten you’re not More >
Classrooms and Libraries for the Net Generation
Jun 26th
(Doug Johnson’s session is over flowing. People standing out side looking in. I am sitting in the Blogger Cafe while David Jakes has a front row seat in the session. He is taking his notes in Skype. I’m copying the notes here as a blog post about the session….exactly what Doug is talking about.)
Crap detector
10 tech directors
All the rest are librarians
And you are getting a long so well.
Showing old photo and Second Life image
Showing what kids today have never known-very effective
The Kennedy disaster was a plane crash, not a disaster.
They are just eating this shit up,Doug has got some groupies.
They’ve More >
