Last week while at the Second Life ISTE social hour someone brought up Twitter and “I don’t get it.” So I took it upon myself to try and explain what makes Twitter so….should I say addicting. I tried…and failed horribly, but it has had me thinking these past couple days, what is it about Twitter that makes it so interesting. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week I sat down with the kids in my elective class who run teentek.com and podcasted a session with them about the class and the Microsoft Surface. At about the 8 minute mark one of the students says something to the affect that: “Parents don’t get it. They think we need to go outside and ride our bikes to […]
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 […]
Yesterday Mr. Hossack’s class of 5th graders got to take part in something new and cool. They had a video Skype call with a 7th grade class in Los Angles, California. Barbara Barreda contacted me a couple weeks ago and we started planning. Of course planning didn’t go to smoothly on our end. We are two days from ending school […]
I stopped by the EduBloggerCon web site to make sure I hadn’t missed any information about the upcoming event. I took a look at the attending page and for the first time really stopped to look through the names of everyone that is going to be there. I can’t believe I actually get to meet all these people in person. […]
Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“ Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.” […]
I’ve showed this video to 3 classes now: Afterwards I ask each class “What does this mean for education” And each class responds: “No need for teachers anymore.” Actually one class said “Goodbye to your job!” Interesting response I think. [tags]microsoft surface[/tags] Technorati Tags: microsoft surface
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 […]