Reflections on Teaching

This conference had a rough start, as I had problems with each of the sessions/events I attended. I’m happy to report that two of my favorite sessions occurred on the last day.
Chris Lehmann on UBD
NECC 2009 Attendees | Program | School 2.0: Progressive Pedagogy and 21st-Century Tools
UbD21C – home
Practical Theory
Presenter: Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership [...]

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The Great Debate
Video: NECC 2009 Tuesday Keynote: Debate and Dialog | ISTE Connects – Educational Technology
Video: Post Debate Interviews | ISTE Connects – Educational Technology
Live Blog I participated in
RESOLVED: Brick and mortar schools are detrimental to learning.
This was not much of a “debate” since one of the guys who argued the affirmative didn’t find [...]

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The tools

When you are at NECC, sometimes you miss things that happen, and only catch them in passing from the comments of others. Comments about some tweets seem to be making the rounds and focus on the idea that this NECC just doesn’t have any new cool tools coming out of it. Since I’ve been [...]

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My Live Blog (does not include Equity Summit)
Digital Equity Summit
NECC 2009 Attendees | Program | Digital Equity Summit
My Tweets from Digital Equity Summit
Given the fact that I teacher in a Title school, and make that an issue, I should be participating in this event but Equity Conference and I have not been getting along. Last [...]

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I did a guest blog piece on ISTE about what I found to be a more fruitful way to expand my network than sitting in the Bloggers Cafe (a lovely place, btw) and wait for a “talent scout” or “famous” edublogger to notice me typing furiously…
Expanding your network

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Larry Ferlazzo pointed out that many readers may have NO idea what a NECC is, and why it’s such a big deal, so I thought I would do a short posts on NECC background. I’ll explain the title of this post at the end.
First, NECC (the National Educational Computing Conference) is an annual conference for [...]

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Below is my calendar for NECC 2009 | National Educational Computing Conference put on by ISTE which will be starting next week. I will begin my travels to Washington, D.C. on Thursday afternoon with a train ride down to the San Francisco Bay area to spend the night there  before leaving by plane for the [...]

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FYI, Wes Fryer has opened up the NECC blog for folks to post articles on how they use technology in their classrooms. This not only helps Wes generate content, but will be a show case for the power of technology (well used) in the classroom.
The first article came from Nancy Pratt, about a story telling [...]

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