Yesterday evening I did something I never thought I’d do: I voluntarily threw my backpack containing my MacBook Pro laptop from a Washington DC metro train onto the concrete platform beside the rails. The moral of this story is, don’t be slow getting on the metro. Here’s the full story. I had a wonderful opportunity
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These are my notes from Erin Gruwell‘s closing keynote at NECC 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. This was the program description: Wednesday’s keynote wraps up your conference experience with an inspirational look into the 10+ years’ worth of technology-supported projects initiated by Freedom Writers founder Erin Gruwell. Born and raised in
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These are my notes from Tony Vincent‘s NECC 2009 presentation, “Do So Much with an iPod Touch!.” His notes are available with all the links! This was a fantastic presentation in all respects. Tony is a model presenter, very engaging, so relevant with specific classroom examples, has such depth of experience as a classroom teacher
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These are my notes to the “Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0′s Role in Schools?” at NECC 2009. This was a panel discussion. I captured the entire backchannel for this session as a PDF file. Thanks to Vicki Davis for setting up the backchannel in Chatzy! Julie Lindsey: I covet the learning connections and networks
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These are some notes from my session today with Karen Mongomery at NECC 2009, “RU In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy?” You can get a link to these resources by sending a SMS message to the number 50500 and using the text “wfryer” without quotation marks as your actual message. Join Facebook
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These are my notes from the panel session “21st-Century Learning: The New Visionary Administrator Speaks Up!” at NECC 2009, facilitated by Julie Evans of Project Tomorrow. This session is being audio recorded and will be posted/shared on the Project Tomorrow website after the conference. The official session description was: A new breed of visionary administrator
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