Browsing all posts in June, 2009.

“Storming The Hill” with ISTE Connects and ISTE Advocacy

Attendees of NECC 2009 left the conference center and headed to The Hill to talk to congress about issues that are important to educators. Follow @isteadvocacy on twitter for more. Here’s the video!

Library of Congress Launches TPS Direct

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We’re blogging and streaming live from the Library of Congress (LOC), which is making a special announcement during NECC 2009.
The LOC is taking a new step in making their content available via an exciting approach to providing professional development called TPS Direct.
TPS Direct does the following:

Provides access to unparalleled content from the world’s [...]

Live-Blogging: “Video in the Classroom”

I’m Zach Goodwin (@zbgoodwin), your tireless correspondent and guide to ISTE’s NECC 2009, and I’m live-blogging from “Video in the Classroom.”  Check out the live feed below:

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ISTE Connects Live Content from NECC 2009

If you miss out on our live-stream of the events happening at NECC 2009 you can still access everything that we present. Just go here to view all of our archived live feeds. We have separated our live-streams into easy to identify posts so that you can view them after they have happened.

Video: Student Showcase Interviews

The Student Showcase allows students from across the country to show off what they done with technology. We caught up with two of these groups of children and interviewed them.

Video: Interview w/ Kathy Schrock

We interviewed Kathy Schrock and shes an amazing resource for educators and students alike. You can check out her blog or follower her on twitter @kathyschrock. I highly recommend checking her website out if you haven’t already. She will also be soon posting her sessions from NECC on her blog as well.

Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students

Yesterday here at NECC I learned about three fantastic applications for younger / primary age students from Jenny Ashby from Vic, Australia, who has 8 iPod Touches in her classroom currently. Here are the applications. These are ideal for students to use in center activities in a primary classroom.

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Video: NECC 2009 Blogger’s Cafe

We visited the Blogger’s Cafe and interviewed various members of the edu-blogging community to get their feedback on NECC so far.

Live-Blogging: “Blogs, Wikis and RSS in the Classroom”

I’m Zach Goodwin (@zbgoodwin), your tireless correspondent and guide to ISTE’s NECC 2009, and I’m live-blogging from “Blogs, Wikis, and RSS in the Classroom”!  Check out the live feed below:

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Live-Blogging: “Communication and Creativity: Using TuxPaint”

I’m Zach Goodwin (@zbgoodwin), your tireless correspondent and guide to ISTE’s NECC 2009, and I’m blogging from the “Using TuxPaint”!  Check out the live feed below:

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