June 2007
23 posts
Mabry online Closing session
Well, we’ve made it to the closing keynote. The conference is just getting going for me, and now it’s over ;) But I’ve put faces with names, met some new people, learned a lot, been inspired(thanks Joyce!), and hopefully can face the long line at the airport with a lot to think about. I won’t be able to stay for Tim Tyson’s whole session, since I have to address...
Women of the Web project
The four members of Women of the web met here for the first time four days ago—they started this last fall and do a weekly podcast. womenofweb2.com http://wow2necc2007.wikispaces.com/ Wanted to provide a voice for women online, the four of them met and formed a group in 24 hours. And had 200 members within a month. Jennifer Wagner Sharon Peters Cheryl Oakes Vicki Davis Sharon is talking...
One Laptop per Child project
Gregg DeKoenigsberg, Red Hat They rely on the open source community and a partnership with them so that they can sell their product. RedHat is the primary software developer for the laptop, the XO, which he is showing us now. It’s smaller than I would have picture, sort of like the size of those neo devices. if you have linux and want to contribute to software...
Info fluency
Joyce Valenza and her colleague Ken Rodoff are going to share ideas for tools that you can immediately use in the classroom or library. They are colleagues at Springfield Township High School, and she also runs Teacher Librarian Ning. This presentation was excellent and one of those that makes the whole conference worthwhile. The slides and links for this presentation can be found at...
Pulling the ideas together
My blog friend, Scott Schwister, who I have now met in person, once again inspires and informs my thinking. While I have been using my blog as a way to collect notes from the sessions (since I have been basically going from session to session without much time to reflect or connect my ideas in between), he has highlighted some key questions or ideas from sessions he’s attended, that inspire...
Arapahoe HS/Constructivist use of laptops
I can already tell this presentation by teachers at Arapahoe High School will be wonderful. My real blog is STILL DOWN :( (futura.edublogs.org), so just email me if you want to comment or ask a question (whslibrarian@eanes.k12.tx.us). I’m live blogging it here on my new friend, tumblr.com, and I have a plug to charge up my laptop too, so I’m happy, whoo hoo. I also got to meet...
Contemporary Literacies with David Warlick
David started out today with a tour down memory lane and the first Radio Shack computers. He contrasted that with today, and a visual “swarm” of recommended stories on Digg or Wikipedia having to block Congress from changing their own wikipedia sites. He’s sharing a clever set of screen shots of Wikipedia’s different warnings about article content, and contrast that...
Finally, Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google...
Vicky, David and I are in Hall Davidson’s session on Google Earth, which of course is packed. His powerpoint is online at discoveryeducatornetwork.com/ at blogs —DENmedia matters—june 20 entry DEN GOES TO NECC, and a word document with tips on using Google Pro. Google Earth Pro—you can download the free trial by emailing GEEC@google.com, Debra Kettman. He’s showing...
WatchTuesday Keynote NECC07
Keynote--Arts, Brain research & Creativity
The stage is set for creativity this morning at the opening session. As we walked in to the auditorium, a dramatic abstract video is playing on the screen, the room is darkened except for some blue lighting, and a dramatic cellist(Zoe Keeling?) is playing. It feels like something out of Cirque de Soleil. I’ve live blogged this session, but it can’t really convey the energy and...
Coherence
I really enjoyed Doug Johnson’s session today and it was unfortunate my battery died during it. He was engaging, funny, had great slides and very good insights. It was very fun meeting him after reading his blog, as well. NECC recorded a podcast of his presentation, which I’d recommend once it’s up. There’s so much to process here and so much going on and so many...
Classrooms and Libraries with Doug Johnson
I’m so glad to be sitting in this session with Doug Johnson at this time of the afternoon, because he is making us laugh, and after lunch and a day full of workshops that is important. He’s starting off by sharing with us some ways life is different for our students. Beloit College www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset List of how our students’ experience is different than ours. 2 big...
Preparing students for 21st century workforce
I’m sitting in on a panel on Preparing students for the workforce. Although I feel that schools need to do many things besides preparing students for the workplace, I am interested in hearing this panel’s views on what qualities they think are important and how that meshes with what our campus has been discussing regarding 21st century skills that our students need in the web 2.0...
Collaborative global projects
I’m just joining Nigel Quirke-Bolt’s and Nigel Metcalfe’s session on collaborative projects and Nigel is starting out with a photo of Nigel’s Place pub. Always a good way to start a workshop ;) They both work in the National University of Ireland in the department of education and their project is linked here http://dissolvingboundaries.org. Dissolving Boundaries is part...
Will Richardson on Blogging at NECC
I’m here in Will Richardson’s workshop “Learning With Blogs” and the room is overflowing. It’s good to hear him again, since aside from being an interesting writer and blogger, he’s also an excellent teacher. He’s referencing a post he made on his blog about Andrew Keen’s book Cult of the Amateur, which resulted in 41 comments, a great illustration...
NECC -- Opening Session
A few thoughts from my day and the opening session— First off, after not connecting with folks I wanted to meet today, I ended up touring the Coca Cola museum. But I actually ended up getting great ideas for the classroom there. I thought about how this museum takes one subject (Coca-Cola) and then explores it through advertising, art(Andy Warhol exhibit in the museum), video,...
Here at NECC!
Since Edublogs is still down, Not So Distant Future will be running from this site until things improve. I made it to Atlanta for NECC last night, rode the subway to the hotel, and was escorted here by a nice homeless gentleman. I missed the edubloggercon which was the meet-up of bloggers from all over the country, :( but you can read the wikis from some of the sessions. I’m hoping that...
Welcome
Welcome to my tumblr site! Check here for notes, quotes, summaries and links that I’m following! I plan to use this as a backup for my blog during the NECC conference.
