K12 Online Conference to you…

Friends who know me will tell you that I am driven by people. Meeting people, hearing their ideas, engaging in conversations – that’s how I learn.

I have been fortunate to have been able to attend several conferences in the past year or so, but in this day and age, maybe technology can be used to bring the conference to you!

That’s just what is happening again next month, as the K12 Online Conference will take place in cyberspace over a two week period. The theme of the conference is “playing with boundaries” and it is intended to be a forum for conversations between teachers, administrators and learning leaders from around the world. Most of the “big” names will be involved.

If you can’t make it to a RL conference (or even if you have), this is a great source for engaging in conversations about new ideas and to extend your own learning. The great thing is, if you can’t make it to the “live” on line sessions, you can always visit the archives later. In fact, the 2006 series is still available.

Hope to see you there.

Click on the K12 Online badge top right to discover the possibilities.

tags: k12online, technology, education, learning

One stop Mac Shop…

I have to admit, I prefer the Mac platform. While our schools 1:1 program is PC based, I continue to use my old Mac G4 laptop as my primary computer on a day to day basis.

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I love the Mac. It is intuitive, powerful, smart. I am not constantly loading drivers and pretty much any peripheral that I add works! The iLife suite is wonderful and provides me with lots of powerful tools that I can use with little practice or exploration. I think the commercials says it all.

On top of that, there are many more open source applications being made for the Mac than ever before. They add to the simple power of the platform. For a wonderful list of free Mac software check out the Free Mac Classroom. It rocks!

Wanna see more? Check out the whole series of Mac ads

tags: apple, technology, education, learning