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A new world of digital choices

NECC 2009 (the last NECC, since next year it will be ISTE 2010) was a fantastic conference for many reasons. For me, as in the past, the opportunities to have conversations with other educators striving to find new ways to engage students, connect professionally with peers, and utilize cutting edge digital tools to expand the [...]

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 [...]

Schools filtered like totalitarian police states

I recently shared a workshop in a public school, which like many others around the United States, blocks almost all websites which permit interaction and collaboration.

As you can see on the above images, the websites which were blocked included delicious social bookmarks, Flickr photo sharing, the Storycorps oral history project, Friendfeed, Google Mail, and Feedburner. [...]