These are my notes from Dr Scott McLeod’s NECC 2009 presentation, “Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation.” This content is similar to Scott’s 20 min presentation for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference, “Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations,” Disruptive innovations are game changers to understand Christiansen’s thinking here, we need to
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These are my notes from the NECC 2009 session “Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!” Official program description is: Several distinguished educators will offer actual examples of 24/7 learning approaches to educational practice. Can these technology-based, best practices inform your classroom teaching? Presenters are: Michael Searson, Kean University with Judith Beaver, Andrew
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These are my notes from the last part of the NECC 2009 session, “:1 Laptops and Seamless Integration: Peek into the Frontier” by Howard Levin. Howard is with The Urban School of San Francisco. Howard’s presentation links are available, including his slides for this presentation and many of the video links he referenced in this
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These are a few links and notes from “Teaching 2.0: Engaging the Interactive Generation” by Chris Moersch at NECC 2009. I did not attend this full session, but got in on the end. Links and resources from this session are available – Handout of PowerPoint is available in PDF format Dr Chris Moersch on HEAT
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These are my notes from Carol Anne McGuire’s NECC09 presentation “Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality.” This is about Carol Anne’s project which has been running for 5 years, “Rock Our World.” I am audio recording this session and also recording with Ustream. Unfortunately the Ustream (as it did Saturday for EduBloggerCon) repeatedly disconnected, so
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When CNN is providing a five minute video tutorial on “retweeting”, it must be yet another sign that the social media platform Twitter is heading toward mainstream waters. Embedded video from CNN Video Technorati Tags: cnn, twitter, retweet
Kristin Hokanson is live blogging Malcom Gladwell’s opening keynote tonight for NECC, and invites anyone to join in! This CoverItLive session is set to also grab/include Twitter posts with the #necc09 tag. Malcom Gladwell Keynote Technorati Tags: #necc09, #necc, gladwell
These are my notes from Peter H. Reynolds’ closing commentary at the 4th Annual Constructivist Celebration We are really whole brain people – I know everyone in this room believes in the whole brain concept, we are not easily labeled – some courses like to label kids, and measure kid with data Great teaching is
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I’m live blogging Gary Stager’s opening presentation at the Constructivist Consortium today with CoverItLive. I’ll try and add a Ustream as well! Intro Comments to Constructivist Celebration
We had a great day of conversations today at EduBloggerCon09! Hat tip to Peggy George for sharing this original photo! My posts for the day were: – EduBloggerCon: Web 2.0 Smackdown – Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together – Leveraging social media tools for social
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These are some links and resources from Mark Wagner‘s EduBloggerCon 2009 session “Social Media and Social Change in Education” www.thelifeyoucansave.com – website for the book Mark read enroute to NECC which relates to these ideas of social change, social justice, etc. Danger can be creating an “us” and “them” mentality Idea can be helping groups
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These are my notes with links to Mark Wagner’s facilitated session at EduBloggerCon09 titled, “Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together.” Google Docs Mass Uploader (free from Mark Wagner) – Mark paid $300 to have a coder in India create this tool, and used Rent a
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These are my notes from the Web 2.0 Smackdown session at EduBloggerCon 2009. I arrived about 15 minutes after the session got started. Google Similar Images: now integrated with regular image search Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the “Similar images” link under an image to find
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Karyn Romeis posted a Russian langauge YouTube video to her blog today. Although I do not yet speak any Russian, the artist communicates a powerful story here in an amazing way which transcends language. What is the backstory? Is this the German invasion of Russia during World War II? What ARE the words of the
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My son and I spent most of today at the Smithsonian Air and Space and Natural History Museums, and I was enthused to put my iPhone GS through its paces as a mobile storychasing platform capable of shooting video and uploading it directly to YouTube. The final conclusion I drew from the day’s storychasing was:
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This is a mobile-recorded video at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) exhibit today at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This was recorded on an iPhone GS and originally mobile blogged on site (at the Smithsonian) with the free WordPress for iPhone application. Technorati Tags: washingtondc, uav, unmanned, aerial, vehicle, usaf, airforce, aircraft, plane, smithsonian,
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Alexander and I arrived safely in Washington D.C. today and spent about three hours touring the International Spy Museum in the afternoon. Alexander recorded some of my reflections after seeing the museum using my iPhone GS. This is our first “report from the field” in D.C. for this week! In addition to seeing and enjoying
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Yes it’s true, the 2009 K-12 Online Conference call for proposals has been announced at last, along with the outstanding lineup of keynote speakers! See the post “K12Online09 Bridging the Divide: Call for Proposals, Keynotes, and LAN Party Plans” for all the details! Technorati Tags: k12online, k12onlin09
Tomorrow my son and I head out for Washington D.C. This evening we’ve been finalizing our packing, and that meant (for me in anticipation of some webcasting as well as podcasting from NECC 2009) putting together my updated webcasting/podcasting kit. The following image is labeled with mouse-over notes on Flickr: I won’t be using the
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I sent an email back at the end of May 2009 to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, inquiring about the possibility of joining their Speaker’s Bureau to advocate for digital literacy and a 21st century skills emphasis in our schools both in the midwest and around the nation. Their answer this evening? Sorry, you
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