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Easy Animation and ISTE 2010 — Get Your Ed Tech Boogie On!

ISTE member and Maryland teacher librarian Gwyneth Jones created a fun and fabulous invitation to ISTE 2010 in Denver using a text-to-movie tool and the character stylings of Sir Bolt, Steampunk Robot. Check out the clip and get your ed tech boogie on!

See more of Gwyneth’s work at  http://www.iste2010.org/profiles/blogs/sir-bolt-steampunk-robot-talks.

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 [...]

Live Blogging: “Digital Citizenship: Tools, Tips and Ideas”

I’m Zach Goodwin (@zbgoodwin), your tireless correspondent and guide to ISTE’s NECC 2009, and I’m live-blogging from “Digital Citizenship” in room 151B.  Check out the live feed below:

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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 [...]

Let the Games Begin: ISTE NECC 2009!

Hello and welcome from ISTE’s 30th Annual National Education Computing Conference in Washington, DC!  I’m Zach Goodwin — a designer, technologist, and writer — and I’ll be one of a team of tech-obsessed bloggers who will serve as your virtual guide throughout the next four days of ed tech madness.  If you would like to [...]

Here comes EduBloggerCon 2009!

This Saturday, June 27th, EduBloggerCon 2009 will be held in Washington D.C. right before the start of the NECC conference. The schedule for the day is taking shape on the event wiki, and I’m looking forward to attending some great sessions.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’d be willing to bet Pearson won’t be [...]

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 [...]

NPR’s Robert Siegel To Moderate the Oxford-style Debate at NECC 2009

Today ISTE announced that Robert Siegel of NPR will moderate the Oxford-style debate taking place at NECC 2009 on Tuesday June 30th. Some of Robert Seigel’s most notable roles were on NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of The Nation. The topic of the debate will be, “Bricks and Mortar Schools are Detrimental to the Future of Education.”
This very [...]