Jun

28

Reflections from NECC

June 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

It’s the morning after NECC and we are still in Atlanta. Our flight leaves for home later this afternoon, so I am just relaxing and reflecting on the highlights…and there are many!
NECC has been absolutely astounding! There’s something here for everybody…from the novice beginning to utilize technology in the classroom, to the [...]

Jun

27

NECC Session: Reinventing PBL – A Field Guide

June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Presenters: Jane Krauss / Suzie Boss
NECC: Monday, 11am – 12 noon
This session was from Monday morning…Jane (standing in pic) is an educator and Suzie (seated) is a journalist/author…they are currently writing a book entitled “Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age”, scheduled for release in the fall. This [...]

Jun

27

Hope springs!

June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It seems like Edublogs is back up and running…thanks for the guys behind the scenes for working so hard to get us all back on…it’s too bad that it had to go down during the meat of NECC, but sometimes these things happen…
I have lots of notes, thoughts and random ideas that I will try [...]

Jun

25

Edublogs woes…

June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In case you all are wondering…thge lack of activity on this blog has not been for lack of material or interest…NECC has been more than full of great fodder and learning…
Unfortunately,  the wonderful folks at Edublogs (who provide the platform for this blog) have been struggling to move the service to a new server, and [...]

Jun

25

Things go better with Coke!

June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Twas an incredible first day in Atlanta. After rising late (we were all exhausted from the ordeal of the day before) we strolled two blocks to mid-town, the over to Centennial Olympic Park and the “World of Coke”. In this city that is headquarters to the most popular soft drink in the world, [...]

Jun

23

When the Pilot leaves the headlights on overnight…

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

You would think that getting up at 4 am to catch a 5:45 am flight would be sufficient – especially when you live less than three minutes from the airport! But alas, conference travel never seems to go easy for me.
In a role reversal from last year’s trip to Memphis for the Laptop Institute, [...]

Jun

19

Tagging NECC

June 19, 2007 | 4 Comments

Well….I am all set to fly (well…not really ready…but close enuff!) to Atlanta on Saturday for the National Educational Computing Conference, better know in ed tech circles as NECC.  I am going with our district’s technology mentor team, led by our Technology Learning Specialist Bryan Facey.  Bryan’s a vet of NECC.  The rest of us [...]

Jun

12

A reprieve…

June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The old saying is that a change is as good as a break…this past weekend was a wonderful change as I had the opportunity to take a group of middle school students to Maine for three days in Baxter State Park, highlighted by a climb of Maine’s highest point, Mount Katahdin (5271′).
As an added bonus, [...]

Jun

12

Kinda Fun…

June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

This is weird, but interesting! a colleague sent it to me today…:)
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Jun

7

Teaching SMARTer?

June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In the lovely little Acadian village of Tracadie, New Brunswick today with the couple of dozen provincial technology mentors for our regular get together. This day will be spent training on SMART products, primarily SMART Boards and Notebook Software.
This morning we were given a brief splash of SMART’s newest product, the Senteo Interactive Response System [...]

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