IVC Showcases have been going on all day today at NECC 2008 and they’ve been mostly packed! I couldn’t get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame one, so you can get a flavor of the popularity of the IVC sessions at NECC this year. Why are they just on one day? In The [...]
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Last night at the poster gallery, I recorded an interview with Bev Mattocks from CILC about the KC3 project. Learn about the impact on the students in this cool project. If the YouTube video below is blocked for you, try this link to the same video on TeacherTube.
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Well this morning I thought I’d run over and blog the presentation by the Learn2.ca crew from Canada, but the session was full! It seems if you want to get to a BYOL session (or even the others), you have to hurry up and get there early! Anyway, take some time to check out the [...]
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Sunday night during the global poster gallery at NECC, I thought I’d interview the presenters and post the interview online. Yes, I asked them for permission! The presenters were Cathy Timpone, Park Ridge Public Schools with Agnes Zaorski. The Teddy Bear project is described online, and this Moodle site is used to support the project. [...]
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I listened to the NECC keynote this evening on The Wisdom of Crowds thinking about those I work with collaboratively for projects and professional development. So here are some scribbles: rough quote: if you can have a group that is working well together, you can broaden the range of possibilities of what that group can [...]
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It’s Sunday morning at NECC and I have a few little things to say before I starting blogging NECC! Jazz June 20 we finished up a week of the Jazz workshop. It was incredible and busy so I didn’t blog at all. It was the first international Jazz workshop with a connection to Wales all [...]
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Lit Review: This is a post in a series focusing on the research studies on videoconferencing. Berson, M. J., Carano, K., Carlson, L. A., Mixon, N. K., Rodriguez, P., Sheffield, C. C., et al. (2006). The use of videoconferencing as a medium for collaboration of experiences and dialogue among graduate students: A case study from [...]
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In working on my literature review, I ran across a reference to this paper. Thankfully, it’s been shared online so you can read the whole article if you wish. Hanvey, R. (1977). An attainable global perspective. New York: The American Forum for Global Education. The paper suggests there are five interdisciplinary goals for global education: [...]
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Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th ed.). New York: Free Press. Quoted in this article: Rogers (1995) suggests that there are five factors related to the nature of innovations and their rate of adoption: relative advantage, the degree to which an innovation is perceived as better than the idea it supercedes; compatibility, the [...]
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Here’s an interesting article published in Feb/March. Did you read it? A Healthy Education Videoconferencing allows a Florida boy with an immune system deficiency to attend school for the first time. Kevin O’Connell is a typical third grader at Spring Hill Elementary. He jumps up from his chair and recites the Pledge of Allegiance with [...]
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