Well, lots of talk about the presence of Pearson at EduBloggerCon (and elsewhere around Bloggers’ Cafe and the unconference). I don’t think I can get to it all, but here is a smattering: Brian Crosby: Which I’ll summarize as, “just cause you’re the world’s largest education publisher, does not mean I have to love you […]

It was the final day, but after a night on the town, I was wiped out, and only took in two sessions. The first worked out beautifully, the second was not such a great fit. Session 10: Using Emerging Technologies to Create Collaborative Learning Environments Live Blog NECC Session Description This was the session where […]

Session 7: 3,2,1 News in the classroom Live Blog NECC Session Description   This was one of the few lecture sessions that I attended, so it was noticeably less “hands on” that I was getting used to. They had a solid structure to their presentation, a narrative of how they started a live closed-circuit news […]

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 […]

Session 3: NECC Unplugged Understanding by Design Live Blog 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 […]