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EduBloggerCon09: Great Opportunity for Co-Learning
One of the semantic changes I’ve made in the past few years is learning to refer to those engaged in the learning process less by the titles of “teacher” and “student” and more by the title “co-learner.” We can all be learners, and depending on the context, we can change roles from being expert learners [...]
Blogging the Conference: We’ve come a long way in 3 years!
The response to Joe Corbett’s June 12th post here on ISTEconnects, “Planning To Create Lots Of Great NECC Content? Share It With Us Here!” has been amazing! To date, about one hundred people have indicated they are going to share content from NECC 2009 via blogs, Flickr, CoverItLive, Ustream, and other websites. What an exciting [...]
Planning to Create Lots of Great NECC Content? Share it with Us here!
Do you plan to blog about NECC 2009 or create other NECC related content? We know how much you love shareable Google docs so we created a form to aggregate a list of all the places everyone should check out to find great NECC content. Add yourself to the list so the ISTE Connects community [...]
Becoming a Balanced Blogger – Tips From Jared Goralnick @ WordCamp Mid-Atlantic
You may have already caught my previous post surrounding WordCamp Mid-Atlantic that featured Anil Dash’s keynote, which offered some tremendous insight about blogging and the state of the social web. I also had the opportunity to catch Jared Goralnick’s WordCamp presentation, “How to Be a Balanced Blogger,” and I want to share it with you. If your life [...]
Anil Dash Delivers an Insightful Keynote and Announces SixApart Plugins for WordPress
Anil Dash, co-founder of SixApart, delivered a very captivating keynote at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic concerning social media, why we blog, and connecting across the social web. I found the keynote very refreshing; it reminded me of why I spend so many hours connecting with educational technology minded people across the globe via blogs, twitter, and other [...]
ISTEConnects to Attend WordCamp on Your Behalf ~ We Want your Questions!
Today there are countless educational technology blogs powered by WordPress. ISTEConnects is one these blogs, so I thought I’d attend WordPress camp this Saturday, May 16th at the University of Baltimore Thumel Business Center. The camp will be attended by the regions most talented and influential devlopers as well as plenty of “newbs” like myself. The BarCamp [...]
Skype and Twitter going more mainstream
Technology “norms” can change fast. Not too long ago, if you mentioned “Skype” or “Twitter” to someone in casual conversation, it was not unusual to receive a quizzical response. Thanks in part to mainstream media influencers like CNN and Oprah, however, these technologies and terms are becoming more mainstream and finding their way into the [...]
Looking for Conference Live Blogging Models for NECC09
In the Classroom 2.0 Elluminate discussion about EduBloggerCon on Saturday, April 11th, participants discussed the ways content will be shared “live” from the NECC 2009 conference this year. The wikis NECC “Live” and NECC “Unplugged” are being combined on the NECC Unplugged site this year to showcase those events. Certainly lots of attendees will be [...]
Digital News and Diverse Voices
Do you like to read newspapers? How would your students respond to this question? Does a person’s age entirely dictate whether or not they enjoy reading newspapers, or are there other factors at play?
The Internet and the social web continue to present BIG challenges for traditional, paper-based news organizations. At the end of February 2009, [...]
EduBloggerCon09 and the BarCamp model
EduBloggerCon started at NECC in 2006 at Atlanta, and continued last year in 2007 in San Antonio. Several other EduBloggerCon events have also taken place at conferences including CUE, which have been “unconference” events focusing on ad-hoc, participant led discussions and presentations. I’ve heard about some of these, participated in a few, but will certainly [...]
