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 […]
David Warlick-Telling a New Story Originally uploaded by jutecht. A picture I took of David getting all worked up about his new stories.
Pretty good room full for David’s Telling the New Story session. I’d say there’s probably 125 or so here. David starts the presentation by showing a video of an elephant jumping on a trampoline. Stating can we train education to do this referring to training the elephant to jump on the trampoline. David shows us the handout blog he has […]
Dewitt Jones: First can I say how HUGE this conference hall is! Five large screens giving late comers like me sitting way in the back a great view via a screen. Dewitt’s motivational speech was great, of course the beautiful pictures that he had to help tell his story were great as well. Dewitt’s message was simple. Push yourself to […]
I finally found some time this morning to post what I think our my top 7 posting of the 05-06 school year. Vicki Davis of the Cool Cat Teacher Blog asked for our top 10. I couldn’t find 10 I really liked so I only have 7. (Guess that says something about my writing!) So here are my top postings! […]
So many great things! I have a couple sessions that overlap because I couldn’t decided which one I wanted to go to. I’m sure some things will change between now and then, but for the most part this is where you’ll find me. I’ll be blogging (barring any technical problems) as many sessions as I can. I’ll be posting both […]
Just some random thoughts before I get on the airplane: It’s been over 10 days now since I had a good sit down session with my computer. Although it was worth every moment…I missed it. 🙂 I missed the conversations, the people, the reading. Which is interesting coming from a guy who spent his whole elementary career in the reading […]