Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged networks
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 >
Don’t try to control it
Nov 28th
A comment left by Dan Christian yesterday on my post about the changing landscape of blogging. Has me back here thinking about my job as an educational technologist.
First I think we need to understand how I view my job and what I think the job of an educational technologist should include.
First and foremost we are educators. Our job is to educate. Our students range in age from 60+ to less than 5 years old. Our mission is to teach them how to use technology to learn, create, be more productive or make a task easier. The only way we can do More >
Barbara’s Fund
Nov 19th
The power of the network at work.
Clarence Fisher and Jen Wagner brought this to my attention. Barbara Barreda, the principal of St. Elisabeth’s school has lost her house do to the wildfires in LA.
Two years ago a class at Barbara’s school skyped a class in Shanghai to talk about the differences between our schools and cities.
How global are we?
I didn’t even know there were wildfires going on in LA, yet I am able to give and help a friend in need and learn about the needs of others through the network.
A thanks to Clarence and Jen for bringing this to our attention. More >
’07 The Year of the Network, ’08 The ‘Live Web’
Dec 31st
I can’t believe it’s been that long since I posted and yet I’m glad I took the time off. It is good to disconnect once in awhile, to reflect on ones life and to spend time with family.
My mom and dad flew in on Dec. 14 for their first visit every to China. Of course I set up a blog for my mother so she could write about her experience and family members back home could follow their journey through Shanghai, Bangkok, and Beijing. It was a great two weeks of spending time off the grid. But I missed it (not More >
One of those moments
Jul 15th
So Yesterday I get done writing about how society and our use of networks and technology is why school need to change and headed out to do some shopping and get some pictures printed off for family and friends.
We’ve been living overseas now for 5 (going on 6) years. Every summer when we return on holiday we find that America has moved even farther into the digital age. I’ll never forget 2 years ago when we came home ran into Wal-Mart to grab something real quick went to check out and walked up to an automatic check out machine. We More >
