Presenter: Brett Hinton an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) You can set Drupal to allow sign up without a e-mail….that’s a good thing for schools who do not have student e-mail accounts. Drupal allows you to have a wiki, blog, podcasts all in one CMS system. I really like drupal but need to spend some more time setting it […]

What a day! Like yesterday’s post there was way to much information for my brain to process all in one day but here is random thoughts that I’m still wrestling with. Skype Notes: Below you can read the notes that 5 of us took via a session this morning. To be honest the session wasn’t all that good…but Skype allowed […]

My Screen during this session [9:21:56 AM] Jeff Utecht added Brian Crosby to this chat[9:22:11 AM] Jeff Utecht added Vinnie Vrotny to this chat[9:22:27 AM] Jeff Utecht says: Let’s do it![9:22:48 AM] David Jakes says: This should  be very interesting[9:23:15 AM] Vinnie Vrotny says: and now we know why so many kids are being diagnosed with add[9:23:31 AM] Jeff Utecht […]

Presenter Timothy Magner School 2.0 website. (A must read!) Cell phones allow you to call a person not a place 65.4% of U.S. population own cell phones. Average U.S. home has 26 different media devices Wired teen population surges at the 7th grade 44% of boys 79% of girls online in 6th grade e-mail is a fixture -IM is preferred […]

There has been so much learning going on the last couple of days. I’m trying to work through it all, but my main processor (my brain) is running slow trying to understand what all this new knowledge, new thinking means. Why are we afraid of failure? We teach our kids that we learn through failure but when it comes to […]

Presenter Mitchel Resnick People complain about schools but not about Kindergarden. Creative learning spiral ImagineCreatePlayShareReflectImagine Develop technology with a Low Floor and High CeilingsDevelop technology with Wide Walls Telling some great stories of what students have created through a MIT program. Iceland, Singapore, US. Amazing products! Showing off Scratch (If you haven’t downloaded and played with the program…do it! Actually […]

(Doug Johnson’s session is over flowing. People standing out side looking in. I am sitting in the Blogger Cafe while David Jakes has a front row seat in the session. He is taking his notes in Skype. I’m copying the notes here as a blog post about the session….exactly what Doug is talking about.) Doug Johnson Crap detector 10 tech […]

(Late to the session…breakfast with Tim Lauer worth it!) Presenter James Gate Talking about how great Moodle. (I’m a huge Moodle fan…but if you use Blackboard that good too…I really don’t care what you use as long as you use something!) -Use the blog feature in Moodle with tags to take notes in class. Great idea! Elgg.net-Can connect the two […]

Just back from the ballgame at Turner Field. What a great park! There was a sign in right center that read “Welcome To The Bigs!” That’s what I feel like so far being here at NECC. This is the Bigs! I did find out thought that you can’t take a bunch of geeks to a ball game and not talk […]