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What are Your ISTE 2010 Conference “Must Sees”?
With nearly 600 sessions to choose from, it’s never too early to start planning for ISTE’s annual ed tech extravaganza. The full program lineup for ISTE 2010 in Denver, Colorado, is now available via our conference microsite. Our Custom Program Search makes it easy to browse session by theme, category, and day/time.
The opening keynote will [...]
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 [...]
Defense Contractor Raytheon to Target Education with Computer Modeling
If I hadn’t read it for myself, I would not have believed the news: Defense contractor, Raytheon, just completed the first-ever computer simulation and modeling tool to aid in policy making for the U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education system. This modeling tool is open-source and now in the possession of BHEF (Business-Higher [...]
We Are All Individuals!
In my last post here I talked about reaching out, and meeting others. In that I pointed out two contradictory things, by reaching out you can find other like minded people, but you can also find different perspectives. Really, you never know what you might get. There are cyclical complaints about group-think in edublogging circles [...]
Expanding your network…
Being the parent of a child with autism makes you a little more aware of eye contact in conversation. I’m noticing some interesting patterns at NECC that say a lot about how I socialize. First, there are times when it has become painful for me to make and maintain eye contact. That has to be [...]
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 [...]
Video: ISTE Central Interviews Part 1
We interview various attendees, administrators, and exhibitors at NECC 2009 at our booth in ISTE Central.
Video: Poster & Student Showcase
Watch us walk the Poster and Student Showcase area of NECC 2009. We interview various members of the showcase booths.
Video: NECC 2009 International Reception
We interview the CEO of ISTE Don Knezek and also get some feedback from the international members of ISTE.
Video: NECC 2009 Member Welcome
We were live at the NECC 2009 Member Welcome, hosted by Mario Armstrong (@marioarmstrong) of NPR. If you missed it you can watch the entire presentation in the video below.
