Edubloggercon07 a success!

Edubloggercon07 a success!

Ever wonder what your aggregator would look like in person? Now you know. 🙂 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 night might have something to do with that as […]

EdBloggerCon: Virtual Learning Communities

EdBloggerCon: Virtual Learning Communities

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 trust? How do you build trust? Who do you trust? Is how we […]

EduBloggerCon: Future of Schools

EduBloggerCon: Future of Schools

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 are accessible, a shift of thought needed. Conversation around assessment. […]

EduBloggerCon: Second Life session

EduBloggerCon: Second Life session

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 years and have just now re-started using it. Others (like […]

Ready for NECC!

Ready for NECC!

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 at the airport where my red eye has been delayed […]

NECC Bloggers and session specific tags

NECC Bloggers and session specific tags

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 this year. They have given each session its own tag, so […]

Export your NECC Planner to Google Calendar

Export your NECC Planner to Google Calendar

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 the calendar list on the left, click the “Add” down-arrow […]

NETS Refreshed-Do we need tech standards?

NETS Refreshed-Do we need tech standards?

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 some reading. When I clicked on Warlick’s A Magnetic Field […]

My NECC Schedule beta

My NECC Schedule beta

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 I’m looking at attending.Sunday, June 245:45-7:00pm Opening KeynoteLocation: GWCC Murphy […]