It’s been almost two weeks since my last post which has given me time to reflect and reload for the up and coming school year. My summer, as usual has been a busy one. I have not spent more than 4 nights in the same bed or same house since I got back to the states on June 27th. So […]

I have been surprised with the response that my NECC reflection received. I have to say I wasnÂ’t expecting to receive such supportive comments. I just keep thinking: Where do we go from here? While in the airport on my way to Richmond, Virginia to visit my grandfather who I havenÂ’t seen in 9 years I stopped by the magazine […]

My thoughts and feeling about my first NECC are mixed. Was I expecting too much? I was expecting to find a new conversation. A conversation that I feel needs to happen in education. A conversation that isn’t just about technology, but about the changing nature of our students, our classrooms, and our society. I found it in likely places with […]

Mark’s blog is edtechlife.com www.dimenxian.com a video game for learning algerbra What is Hard Fun? This kid called the work fun because it was hard rather than in spite of being hard.” (Seymour Papert) How do we make writing become hard fun? (Papert) Work is fun because it is hard John Dewey Experience and Education Democracy and Education Experimental Schools […]

Tim Wilson of the technosavvy.org site invited me to have a conversation about China and the state of blogging there as part of his technosavvy podcast he did live Thursday night. If you get a chance have a listen. The first part of the podcast is Sonny Portacio talking about geocaching which was a great conversation as well. Thanks Tim […]

25+ million kids blogging online We listened to Matthew Bischoff from www.matthewbischoff.com a 13 year old podcaster from 2004. We looked at Tess Will’s daughter’s weather book on flickr where 1000 people have viewed her book. building networks with these read/write tools is what students are already doing, why are we not using it in the classroom? It’s about imagination. […]

I took about 30 minutes out of my schedule to walk through the exhibition hall and I have to say that I was quite sad. To see the amount of money that was being spent trying to persuade educators at all levels to buy this thing or that thing. Laptops were a huge thing as HP, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, and […]

Thornburg starts the session by giving a point for his new book. Might have to pick that up after the session. A book on open-source and open-source programs. Linux started from a high school student in Helsinki, Finland “I want students to use the programs they will use when they leave school.” and argument that has fueled the Mac vs […]

I was going to write my thoughts on Nicholas Negroponte’s keynote this morning, but found Julie Lindsay who moblogged it and did a really great job. Read her post here for a great review. Make sure to check out www.laptop.org for more on the $100 laptop. technorati tags:necc, necc06, Nicholas Negroponte Blogged with Flock

My last session on Wednesday was watching the production of the Ed Tech Coast to Coast show. A podcast that I listen to on a regular basis. Tim Wilson, Tim Lauer, Will Richardson, Tom Hoffman, and Steve Burt sat down and talked about a number of topics as well as take some questions from the audience. The Episode has been […]