Welcome to our presentation on Building Classroom Communities and Language Development Using Online Tools. Below is a list of some of the Websites we’ll be exploring. The list is divided into Elementary (Alice’s links and sites) and Secondary (Larry’s links and sites).
Alice Links and Sites
Miz Mercer’s Public Library | Diigo
Music Lesson 3: More Musical Genres | Oakridge Sixth Grade Blog
Oakridge Second Grade – Camouflage
Miz Mercer’s Public Library | Diigo
Larry’s Links and Sites
I will be attending, and presenting at CUE which is starting this Thursday. For those of you going, or just interested, here they are (click links for materials, etc.):
Description: Is your district or school implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) for meeting special education requirements? Wondering how technology can help? Check out this informative session to find out how to use technology as an intervention with students and to manage and track what you are doing.
When: Thursday 11 – 12
Location: Tapestry Hilton Hotel
CUE Unplugged will run on Thursday and Friday, concurrently with CUE. I’m hoping to get Chris Lehmann as a special guest for my preso (his time permitting).
This will largely be based on this post, only really condensed and not talking about specific apps.
I will spend much of my time at the conference helping out at CUE Unplugged. Here is my schedule so far:
Have gone up at: http://inpractice.edublogs.org. Enjoy! Also a post on the “social” scene and how to make the most of it is at: http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/07/06/expanding-your-network/
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Larry Ferlazzo pointed out that many readers may have NO idea what a NECC is, and why it’s such a big deal, so I thought I would do a short posts on NECC background. I’ll explain the title of this post at the end.
First, NECC (the National Educational Computing Conference) is an annual conference for the members of ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education). This is a conference focused on education technology and draws folks from around the world, although most are from the U.S.
It is a big conference. How big? This year had it’s largest turnout, with ~18,000 in attendance (about 4,000 were exhibitor/vendors). The exhibition floor for this year was the size of 5 football fields. Below is a crude triptych panorama of the exhibition floor:
They usually have top name speakers for the keynotes (although not all the attendees will think they are so great). This year we had Malcolm Gladwell, and last year we had James Surowiecki.
Since we were in D.C. and a block from NPR, we had Robert Siegel, moderate a debate on brick and mortar Schools, NPR Technology commentator, Mario Armstrong, did a post speech Q & A with Gladwell. There was even mention of the conference on APM’s Marketplace for June 29, 2009.
The conference and ISTE are doing a rebrand, and will drop NECC, in favor of ISTE for next year’s conference in Denver, hence the cheeky title of this post. So you will not hear about NECC next year, but will hear it called ISTE instead. Sorry for the confusion, it wasn’t my idea. They wanted it to be more “international”. We’ll see if that extends to having the conference outside the U.S. in the future.
To see what others think and what happened, here are some resources. I will be doing blog posts for the next week or so about my adventures there.
My reflection post on EdubloggerCon09 can be found at:
EdubloggerCon 2009 Reflections
My Liveblogging at EdbubloggerCon at NECC
The schedule: http://www.edubloggercon.com/DC+2009+Agenda.
Photos in the EdubloggerCon Pool
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This day will largely be spent at Capitol Hill lobbying, so I will be “mobile”. Here is my feed:
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