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Do ISTE’s “Top Ten in ‘10” Ed Tech Priorities Reflect Your Issues?
Welcome to 2010 and to this ISTE Connects conversation! From my home base in Washington DC, it looks to be a New Year full of possibility and challenge. We face daunting budget deficits at all levels of government and find ourselves struggling to maintain robust funding for classroom technology.
As part of ISTE’s advocacy efforts this [...]
Crowdsourcing: Reflections on the Final Phase of Our Experiment
In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki discusses four key qualities that make a crowd of people “smart”. The crowd must be diverse, decentralized, independent, and it needs a way of summarizing people’s opinions into one collective verdict. In ISTE’s first fully crowdsourced keynote, we’ve done our best to tap into the wisdom [...]
ISTE Members are Leaders
Do you have what it takes to help us transform education? Here’s your opportunity to help lead ISTE! The ISTE Board Nominations Committee is seeking outstanding educational technology leaders to serve on the ISTE Board of Directors. ISTE members can nominate visionary leaders — including themselves — beginning January 5, 2010.
Nominations will be accepted through [...]
Crowdsourcing ISTE 2010 Keynote – Phase 2
We’re pleased to announce the ISTE 2010 Keynote Crowdsource project has moved into Phase 2!
Go to Keynote Project to check out our five most popular topic areas and learn how to nominate the person you think should be the featured keynote speaker at ISTE 2010 in Denver.
Here’s the blog post outlining the project: Schooling Together
Register Now for ISTE 2010 in Denver, Colorado, June 27–30
Excitement is building for our 31st annual conference in the breathtaking city of Denver! We’ve set our sights even higher this year, building off our amazing conference in Washington, DC, in June 2009.
Plan now to keep ISTE 2010 in your sights and budget. ARRA/stimulus monies, including formula and competitive grant monies, can be used to [...]
Become a Guest Blogger on ISTE Connects
We’ve had some excellent contributors to the ISTEconnects blog, and we want to keep it open – making it a community driven place for you to connect with other educational technology enthusiasts. We’ve created a simple guest blogger functionality, and all you have to do to get published here is to sign up to be [...]
Tips For Writing A “GREAT ISTE 2010″ Proposal
I have reviewed conference submissions for a number of years and it amazes me how many of the proposals need a lot of work to be considered for a slot in the conference.
I am going to give you several tips on how to make sure your proposals “Stand Out” and have a better chance of [...]
The Definitive NECC ‘09 Wrap-up Post
Across the last week, more than 18,000 educators, administrators and technologist from more than 61 countries flocked to Washington, DC to attend ISTE’s NECC (National Education Computing Conference) 2009. After four days (June 26th – July 1st) packed from morning to night with education technology insights, it is my sad duty to report that NECC [...]
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.
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