Category: workshops
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Royal Furgeson on Ethics and the law
These are my notes from a presentation at TTU Ethics Day on 6 April 2006. Royal Furgeson is a US District Judge for the Western District of Texas. For all of human history, we have hungered for justice. In the US, we have centered our ideas of justice in the Bill of Rights, esp amendments…
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Math Will Rock Your World
Stephen Baker “Math Will Rock Your World” Closing keynote at FETC 2006 About Stephen: – Writes about “complicated technologies” and leader in “new media” for Businessweek – Co-author of blogspotting.net – developing book about math and society now – tri-lingual Confession: I don’t know the first thing about math – I avoid it whenever possible…
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International perspectives on teaching and learning in an information society
Preparing for teaching in an information society: various perspectives A SITE 2006 keynote presentation by: Tjeerd Plomp Professor Emeritus University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands [I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND PENDING PRESENTER PERMISSION, WILL POST AS A SUBSEQUENT PODCAST] Dr. Plomp has had a major role in advising national education ministries about ICT education…
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Digital Stories Across the Curriculum
My notes from a SITE 2006 preso: Digital Stories Across the Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges [I am recording this session for a later podcast] AMTE’s technology position statement now includes: analyzing and visualizing math concepts – opportunity for multiple mathematical representations to investigate mathematics use digital images to describe different paths math teachers are very…
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Online Teacher Professional Development
These are my notes from a SITE 2006 presentation on “Evolving a Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development” – presenters were Dr. Chris Dede from Harvard, Dr. Ray Rose from the Concord Consortium, and Dr. Debra Sprague from George Mason Univ. I arrived at this session late after Chris had already started…. Instead of…
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Advice and perspectives for future professors
Fireside Chat — Transitions to Academia: Research, Scholarship, and the Professoriate Lynne Schrum, University of Utah, USA A SITE 2006 presentation Are the things that are good for us professionally toxic for us professionally? (Tom Hammond quoting Glen Bull and Chris Dede) – what habits of mind for graduate students do you recommend to avoid…
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1:1 Laptop project lessons
Lessons Learned from 1-to-1 Laptop Initiatives: Reflections on the Critical Components A SITE 2006 presentation [I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL POST AS A PODCAST LATER] Presenters: Mike Muir, University of Maine at Farmington, USA; Alice Owen, Irving Independent School District, USA; Gerald Knezek, Rhonda Christensen, University of North Texas, USA; Elliot Soloway, University…
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Effective Technology Research
Facilitating Effective Technology Research in the Core Content Areas by Lynn Bell, Glen Bull, Cleb Maddux, Anita McAnear, Debra Sprague, Ann Thompson, and Lynne Schrum a SITE 2006 presentation [I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL SHARE AS A PODCAST LATER PENDING PERMISSION FROM PARTICIPANTS] Overview and background / context: – for 18 months discussions…
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Can you hear me now?
SITE 2006 keynote by Janet Swenson (3/21/2006 in Orlando, Florida) – Can you hear me now? Composing Connections Between Classrooms and Communities – professor at Michigan State Univ, directs the writing center [This presentation is also available as a podcast, with Janet’s generous permission] Janet came to the attention of SITE leaders because of her…
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March of the Penguins: Linux on the Student Desktop
This was a presentation this morning at TCEA 2006 by David Thornburg. David gave me permission to share the audio recording I made of the session later as a podcast. I’ll be posting that here soon (probably next week.) Presenting with the Linspire Linux operating system today Questions: – how many of you are using…