Reflections on Teaching

Background:
This was a How and Why instead of a How-to session. It wasn’t here is how to set up and edublog, but instead here is how to plan for that, and here is your goal, and think about what to do to get there.
The session itself:
Here is the Google Doc Presentation:

and Audio:

First, I wanted to [...]

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Background:
Why did I do this session? Well, at ILC some of the best attended sessions were one I did on Tech in ELD and one that came before my session on using Tech for intervention with IEP (special ed) and other low-performing students. The presenter worked for an ed consultant that works with PI and [...]

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I’m putting these two together because, I don’t know, so don’t ask me. The presenters, Nick Pernisco, and Mathew Needleman know each other and often work together at conferences informally. Both of these presentations were about teaching students visual literacy, but for different purposes.
First up, Visuacy, from Nick Pernisco which was a Bonus Session on [...]

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Background:
Peter H. Reynolds is a children’s author and artist, best known for works like “North Star”, “ish”, and “The Dot” which make the case for creative expression, and finding your own voice, or means of expression.
My rough notes:
This session was live-blogged via twitter, so here is what I sent:
Peter reynolds giving closing at #cue2009
Peter reynolds [...]

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This is not a full blown reflection posts. I’ve had to spend most of the day getting ready to go back to work tomorrow. I will be writing a reflection post at some point in the next week. Until then, here is a link to my tweets from the conference (that was were I did [...]

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If I do a full live blog for a session, it will appear here. I will send out a tweet before sessions. My own session can be seen here.
CUE Bonus Sessions Day 1

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I was working on a mobile site for the upcoming CUE conference largely for my own use, when I contacted Mark Wagner (since he has an iPhone) and asked his opinion, and he pointed me towards Mike Lawrence, the head of CUE. Apparently their plans for a mobile site had fallen through, so with some [...]

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Dear Reader, I’m asking you to fill out this short survey about what kind of conference blogging you are looking for. I’ve done a lot of blogging from the conferences I’ve attended, to the degree that In Practice, the group blog I work on, was given a “press pass” to the ASCD Conference, and I [...]

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