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NECC 2008 One-to-One Seamless Integration
Monday, June 30th, 2008Live blogged…
Howard Levin, from The Urban School of San Francisco, is doing a wonderful job showing practical benefits of 1:1. He is currently explaining how students are now working on their lab reports after hours and their lab reports are so much better and deeper because of all the tools they have at their disposal.
Howard [...]
NECC 2008 Technology Policy Workshop
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Dr. Larry S. Anderson is the founder and director of the National Center for Technology Planning.
Ice breakers from Dr. A…
“When you are on the phone with someone and you want to hang up hang up while you’re talking.”
“You are never late for today you are always early for tomorrow.”
“Good technology plans should be one page [...]
NECC 2008 Web 2 Smackdown
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Here are the tools explained during the smackdown at Edubloggercon 2008…
1. www.polleverywhere.com use cell phones to create a student response system for free using SMS text messaging. Carrier charges apply.
2. www.chacha.com - call ChaCha and ask a question and ChaCha will text message back an answer in anywhere from 20 seconds to 5 minutes. No [...]
NECC 2008 - Moodle and More
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Spending morning in Moodle and More workshop. Presenter’s Carmalita Bieniek and Jeanne Myers from NYC are modeling embedding video in Moodle to make the course more appealing to visual learners. One of the course topics was called A Vision. Here is the YouTube video they used to begin that course topic/forum/chat in the Moodle course.
Youtube [...]
NECC 2008 Riverwalk Architecture
Friday, June 27th, 2008Finally made it to San Antonio after a series of delayed Delta flights (mechanical issues :-(). Took a picture taking walk on the Riverwalk. The architecture and landscaping truly is beautiful. Here is my quick Architectural Pictorial of the Riverwalk on Flickr…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrypace/sets/72157605843523380/
Planning to work in a trip to the Alamo and possibly dinner at the [...]
NECC 2008 Bound to be Creative
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Preparing to depart for NECC in San Antonio…
I’m remembering back to last year’s conference in Atlanta where the overriding theme was creativity. One year later I’m wondering what progress we have made in fostering creativity in our students. It certainly is an uphill battle. Inserting creativity is common place in the lower primary grades, but begins to fade away [...]
MEC Google Earth
Friday, June 6th, 2008
MEC Google Earth
Originally uploaded by Barry Pace
The fourth McDowell Early College Apple Professional Development session focused on taking students on Google Earth Lit Trips and helping students create photo enhanced podcasts using GarageBand and iPhoto.
After four full days of professional development Early College instructors are becoming comfortable and excited about going one-to-one next school year.
The [...]