Looking for a way to be in multiple places at the same time? Want to provide 24/7 feedback to your students and friends? Well, let me introduce you to MyCyberTwin. This is an online Chatterbot. You ask it questions and it will respond in ways that develop into conversations. You […]
I just had the opportunity to experience an incredibly motivating and inspiring presentation by Tyler of Waterloo, Iowa. Tyler was discussing the need to engage in Ability Awareness. Ability Awareness involves “recognizing what a person, any person, CAN do is much more important than what he/she can’t. Many people have […]
It’s here!!! Last January, Wesley Fryer and I were wondering on a Dr. Z Reflects posting, Finding Skype Connections for Your Classroom, where one would look to find experts/authors/interesting people to Skype into our classrooms. Angela Maiers just tweeted about a new site, Skype an Author Network, unveiled by Mona […]
This is a report on a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) workshop presented in the last session of NECC by David Rose (Southland Public Schools, Michigan) and and Kim Guffey (Haywood County Schools, NC). Presentation wiki Most of the resources are on the wiki, so this posting will only include […]
(That’s me in the front left corner) What an opportunity!!!! I am sitting in the EduBlogger Conference here in Washington, D.C. on the Saturday before the NECC conference. This is a unique experience that has been organized by Steve Hargadon. the most unique aspect of this experience is that it […]
Join us in our 12:00 (Wed) session at NECC 2009 as we explore a variety of new technologies that can be used to create and support a collaborative learning environment in your class. We will be using: Skype (Video Conferencing) Cover-It-Live (Back Channel Chatting) Google Apps (Cloud Computing Environment) Google […]
Dr. Alec Couros delivered the closing keynote presentation at the 2009 Summer Faculty Institute program at the University of Delaware on June 5, 2009. I was fortunate enough to learn that it was being webcasted through UStream and enjoyed the presentation. This man is genius. He is an advocate of […]
Just watched in introductory YouTubevideo about Google Wave. This was a presentation that was given at the Google I/O 209 conference (for developers). This was an early alpha demo so it crashed a couple of time in the presentation, but that is OK. They were showing this to the developers […]
The Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC) is a curricular program that provides guidance for educators in “delivering challenging and meaningful content to students that prepares them for success in life.” This curriculum identifies the “essential concepts and skills for K-12 grade in literacy (read, write, speak, listen, and think), mathematics, science […]
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