What follows is a random assortment, pieces loosely joined, from sessions that I attended at NECC. I’m sharing these fragments here as a way of helping myself make meaning of them, and to invite discussion of these significant questions for schools, and for libraries specifically. Feel free to share your thoughts. Barbara Kurshan–from Curriki– [...]
Entries Tagged as 'NECC07'
In “perpetual beta”
July 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Laptops, NECC07, Search tools, Teacher Learner
In her presentation at NECC on information fluency, Joyce Valenza described how she sees herself as “version 1.8,” in perpetual beta, because she is always learning. What a great way to project to your students and staff that you are always in the process of “upgrading” and exploring new things. She pointed out that students often [...]
Tags:
Already planning for NECC 08?
June 29th, 2007 · No Comments · NECC07
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 [...]
Tags:
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 [...]
Tags:
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!
Tags:
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. [...]
Tags:
Flickr/whslibrary
Twitter/technolibrary
YouTube/whslibrary
Del.icio.us/technolibrary
MyBlogLog/technolibrary
Slideshare.net/technolibrary
