I’m so thrilled that NECC08 will be in San Antonio, because it’s one of my favorite cities and favorite getaways (and I’m sort of a local, being from Austin). So, since it’s summer and I was thinking about it, I have put together a wiki for planning your trip to San Antonio in 2008 (never too [...]
Entries from June 29th, 2007
On the subway
June 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Change, NECC07
I rode the subway to the Atlanta airport yesterday. The people getting on looked weary, for the most part, weary, footsore, and like they worked hard. I started thinking about the session at NECC on Digital Equity that Barbara Bray told me about, and about Joyce Valenza’s comments about how it’s a responsibility of educators to [...]
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One delightful tool we forgot to mention
June 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · iPods
I see edublogs has started working (now that I am finally home). I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it is fixed. I sat in on a good session with the Women of Web 2.0 today, and we were talking about handy web 2.0 tools. But the one we forgot to mention and that hasn’t had much [...]
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Alternate site
June 24th, 2007 · No Comments · NECC07
Edublogs has been having a few issues lately, so I’m posting on an alternate site– www.technolibrary.tumblr.com for NECC until things smooth out!
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Teaching that leaves a mark
June 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Teacher Learner
I just got back from seeing a new mockumentary film, Chalk, which was filmed at a high school here in Austin. Think of the program “The Office” set in a school, and you get the general idea. While the school portrayed in the film certainly wasn’t what we’d call a “21st century school” or an [...]
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Welcome!
June 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0
Welcome to any principals who stop by from my session at Texas Association of Secondary School Principals on web 2.0 tools for administrators! Some blogs we talked about in the session as a good starting point: Mabryonline LeaderTalk Practical Theory Educational Discourse G-town Talks (and I quoted her superintendent) Dangerously Irrelevant I also highly recommended [...]
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A few cool new tools
June 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Tools, Web 2.0
For some summertime “play,” here are a few new tools that I found on Karen Janowski’s blog about assistive technology– She has posted a very extensive list of helpful study skill types of tools. My favorites from her list? Bubbl.us is a free brainstorming tool. We have Inspiration on our district computers, but what about [...]
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How will this change education?
June 11th, 2007 · No Comments · iPods
iTunes U – university content offered via iTunes. It’s not just audio podcasts but video as well. ( Thanks to Patrick Higgins at Chalkdust for passing this along. ) So, what changes when academic courses become this accessible to everyone who is interested?
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Two weeks to go…
June 10th, 2007 · No Comments · NECC07
It’s less than two weeks until the NECC Computing conference in Atlanta! I’m very excited to get to attend an Edubloggercon, which is a sort of self-organized conference of bloggers who are attending the larger NECC conference. The participants are using a wiki to volunteer to organize different sessions and NECC has donated space for us to meet. [...]
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Transferring a positive vibe
June 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change
Change–why is it so difficult for schools and what can we do about it? That’s the theme of a weeklong thread at Dangerously Irrelevant that I highly recommend. I ran across an article in Time Magazine this morning, “the Ewww Factor,” about a marketing study by Andrea Morales and Gavan Fitzsimons which found that the “disgust” factor [...]
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