TedxNYED; the Lost Art of Listening

Yesterday, I attended TEDxNYED conference.  There were a lot of great speakers and as always the best part of any conference is talking to like-minded participants and getting new perspectives on issues in education.  One of the people I talked to was Aaron Eyler, who’s prolific blogging I admire. What I liked about this conference [...]

ISTE Keynote; Wondering who to vote for?

Here are video clips of the five candidates for ISTE Keynote (click on the name to go to a video of them speaking).  I think you can learn a lot about these people and their work from these video clips.  It isn’t their biography or their accomplishments which should make them the ISTE Keynoter, it [...]

NECC 2009; We all win

I recently attended the NECC 2009 conference and here is what I thought: Best Session LOL@NECC – If you were there, you know why, if you weren’t there, I can’t tell you. Like Vegas, it’s better to experience it, than to share that experience. Best Moment Talking to a young student (from Georgia I believe) [...]

My NECC 2009 Planner

As the song goes, “there’s just too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can’t go wrong” at NECC this year.  Here is my copy of my NECC Planner. Notice all the double bookings (literally too much to see). I’m doing a Birds of a Feather session on [...]

Educon2.1; Wrapup

            This weekend I attended EduCon 2.1 in Philadephia at the Science Leadership Academy.  Looking for words to describe EduCon2.1, I think Will Richardson says it all; “this is the best conference”.  Unlike a lot of other conferences, there is almost no session hopping (moving from one session to another b/c the original session didn’t resonate with [...]

Educon2.1; My Session

  I presented at Educon with Edwin Wargo of the Bridgeton Schools a session called Technology Literacy at the K-8 Level: Conversation About Learning, Pedagogy, and the 5W’s. Here is a link to our presentation. http://qml.wikispaces.com/technologyliteracy

Educon2.1 Konrad Glogowski

            Easily the best session at Educon2.1 was Konrad Glogowski’s Assessment and Evaluation in the 21st-Century Classroom.  Glogowski is a true rising star on the ed tech scene.  His presentation embraced the concept of assessment while still honoring the core idea of constructivism. In an earlier session, I  had the privilege of sitting next to [...]

Educon2.1; David Warlick

             I attended David Warklick’s presentation “Forging Links between Casual Information Practices & Formal Learning Procedures.” It was an interesting session that would have been amazing if it were held earlier in the conference (people were tired) the session presented a lot of interesting information and challenged the participants to revisit their ideas about multi vs. shift [...]