The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Sigh, well I see I’m not the only one who noticed that some of us were a little more concerned about meeting people based on their technorati rating, rather than having a meaningful conversation. Lord knows, I was guilty of at least one OMG, vanity tweet during the conference (maybe there were more, but I [...]

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Session 3: NECC Unplugged Understanding by Design
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This was originally a fuller session, but became a short discussion (about 20 minutes) by Chris Lehmann, it was a really great session, where we did a mini plan for a unit on the Alamo as a group using Understanding By Design principals. This is was a very [...]

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I did an overall reflection at In Practice, because it fit better there.

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This will be on:
The Man Behind the Curtain: Really Simple HTML for Non-Wizards with Hall Davidson

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This will either be on IT and Education from NECC Unplugged or Web Based Resources for At-Risk Students

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This session will be on 3, 2, 1 Action: Producing a School News Show

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Fortunately after that, I did get into a presentation in the next session, and I only had to get there about 40 minutes ahead of time (the number dropped as the day wore on). Also, the ONLY handout I got was a discount coupon, a business card, and a button. People are putting materials online, [...]

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This was a day that did not start off well. Folks going to EdubloggerCon have largely had the place to ourselves up until now, but today the hordes arrived. I’m hearing figures anywhere from 13,000 to 20,000 for projected attendance. I arrived at a time that I thought was early, 8ish for a session starting [...]

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Another session, that has a couple of options, wait and see?

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