Session at NECC 2007 with Gary Stager of Pepperdine University called “Way Beyond WebQuests and Information” on Wednesday at 8:30am. “Information is the smallest piece of education.” “If your dominant theme in technology education is looking things up, it should come as no surprise that kids look up inappropriate things.” On the democratization of the [...]
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Lucie deLaBruere from St. Albans City School in rural Vermont. 11:00am Tuesday. Lucie also contributes to Infinite Thinking Machine. Furl for research: it can export formatted Works Cited pages. Teachers ask Lucie about social bookmarking, “so what?” Work smarter not harder Collective and collaborative knowledge Wisdom of crowds Redesign assignments for increased critical thinking Lucie’s [...]
I’ve been portscanned every single time I’ve booted my laptop at NECC Monday morning. Oddly (grin), no portscanning happened on Saturday when I was at the Georgia World Congress Center for EduBloggerCon. To the scanners, I ask — have you found anything good yet? Technorati Tags: necc2007, necc07, security
Open source software is doing gangbusters! I’m sitting in a hands-on open source lab on mindmapping using a tool called FreeMind. There are about 50 people in here using recycled laptops provided (presumably) by the open source playground people to build mind maps. The software is pretty slick looking on first glance. Here’s a screenshot [...]
This is one of the model lessons at NECC, set up as if a teacher were teaching a regular lesson to students. The central floor had room for 25 students equipped with laptops, a smart board, and a teacher. In this case, the teacher was Marsha Sanders-Leigh from Georgia Tech. Marsha showed the class and [...]
The first NETS for students standards were releasd in 1998, after 2 years of development. The new standards have been in the works for a year. Feedback has come from all 50 states and 22 countries. The NECC session (at 8:30 on Monday morning) was a review of the process ISTE used to re-form the [...]
So you’ve made your plans for seeing NECC this week. You’ve mapped out every workshop, lecture, poster, and Starbucks to visit while in Atlanta. But you’ve forgotten one thing: your bingo card. To spice things up a bit, consider playing buzzword bingo along with me. Here’s how it works: Print out the following bingo card [...]
So, as I’m planning my schedule for the NECC, I just realized a huge conflict: NECC pre-conference events are on Pride weekend. How am I to watch the parade and hear the opening keynote?! A little background on both events: The National Educational Computing Conference, NECC, is in Atlanta starting the weekend of June 23. [...]
