The Thinking Stick

Ever wonder what your aggregator would look like in person?

This picture pretty much sums up the edubloggercon today. What a great way to start the conference! So much to think about that my head hurts…of course the 3 hours of sleep on the red eye last …

What’s involved in a Virtual Learning Communities?

Conversations

A central Hub for students a “Jumping off point”

What makes a community?
-Shared Values

A virtual settlement?

What does a successful community look like?

-Communication
-Welcoming
-Gotta be two way

How do you engage people in a learning community?

What is …

David Warlick hosting:

Introductions

Conversation around getting pre-service teachers on board and changing teacher prep programs.

Conversation on what SHOULD schools look like today: Schools, Teachers, Students

Long Tail eduction (more on this later): A Doug Johnson thought.

“The tools don’t change the skills.”

Great conversation….look for the podcasts.

Tools …

Live notes from EduBloggerCon Second Life Session:

Signed up two new SL members!

Introductions and talking about how we all got hooked on SL. Great stories on how people got here, what they are doing.

Interesting how different people started using SL. Some followed others, some have been in for …

Check list:

NECC Planner synced with Google Calendar synced with Palm Desktop synced with Palm: CHECK!

Batteries for camera charged: CHECK!

Laptop charged, polished up, and ready for heavy blogging: CHECK!

Ready to be geeky for 5 day: CHECK!

Looks like I’m ready to go…only problem is I’m still sitting …

NECC has set up their bloggers page, a great list of people blogging the conference. If you’re not on the list, no worries (I wasn’t last year) you can still blog. Just make sure you tag your posts with necc, necc07, necc2007.

NECC has also done something else cool …

Just an FYI if you are a big Google Calendar user like I am. You can create your NECC schedule using the conference planner that NECC provides on their site. You can then click on Handheld Users and export your planner to your computer.

Then:

1. At the top of …

My last full day in Shanghai before flying out tomorrow to Seattle. It’s also the first day of summer vacation, so as I try and wind down from school and gear up for the projects ahead of me this summer I opened up my RSS reader to catch up on …

With a week to go until we fly back to the States for the summer, NECC is coming ever closer. Thought I’d post what I’m thinking about at this stage. Of course all this can change, and as you can see there are some overlaps. Either way some great sessions …