Pat Kennedy left a comment yesterday on the RSS in Plain English post. Which aggregator is conducive to a classroom environment Bloglines or Google Reader? Organizing feeds by disciplines is important to me. Are they advertisement free? There are a lot of great aggregators out there finding one that is right for you and your students is like shopping for […]
I’ve been back from NECC for a couple of days and back into the Mariners having gone to their last two games of the home stand the last couple of days. I’ve been taking it easy this week before my graduate course starts next week for Plymouth State University. It’s my first time teaching a graduate level course and I’m […]
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 […]
Presenter Will Richardson Skype notes: 11 people [7:29:17 AM] Jeff Utecht says: OK can you see this?[7:29:28 AM] Chris Lehmann says: yep.[7:29:33 AM] Jeff Utecht added John Pederson to this chat[7:29:38 AM] Jeff Utecht says: John?[7:29:46 AM] John Pederson says: here[7:30:17 AM] Brian Crosby says: OK here I am[7:31:29 AM] Jeff Utecht added Darren Draper to this chat[7:31:48 AM] Jeff […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]