Here’s my last set of snippets from virtually attending NECC 09: A discussion on NECC Ning by Richard Hum on Finding Balance (Richard Hum of Kigluait Adventures) Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality by Carol Anne McGuire blogged by Wes Fryer (thanks Wes, great summary!!) This project sounds sooooo cool! Will Richardson’s commentary on the [...]
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This morning I found ISTE Vision and watched the debate while following the comments on Twitter. THAT was really fun! Lots of comments about change in instructional pedagogy whether online or in a physical location. I *think* it will be on ISTE Vision later so you can watch it if you missed it. Here are [...]
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As I catch up on Twitter and blogs & Virtual NECC this morning, a few snippets stand out: A tour of the Washington Memorials by Doug Johnson Imagine what tools could be on the web! Tons of tools, what to choose? The emphasis on educational networking or social learning from Doug Johnson Since I’m attending [...]
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CSD and Berrien RESA receive ComputerWorld Honors (if you didn’t hear about it already)…. You can read more about these awards online here.
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There are other ways that I’m planning to virtually follow what’s going on at NECC this year. Twitter I set up two searches in TweetDeck for following NECC. One search for NECC related things: “NECC OR NECC09 OR NECC2009″ Another for the SIGIVC hashtag: NECCIVC Also you may want to follow these people that I [...]
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This year I can’t attend NECC due to a family conflict, so I’ll be trying to catch a taste of the action online. I thought I’d start today with a list of IVC and videoconferencing related sessions that I could find on the schedule. H323 Videoconferencing (I think) June 27, 8:30 EST Students Designing Interactive [...]
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Here’s an interesting article on Skype in the Classroom in the School Library Journal. My question is, who is writing articles on H323 videoconferencing for this journal? They need to know about ASK!!
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Recently I’ve been learning about situated learning. Here are some thoughts connecting situated learning to Jazz. Lave and Wenger (1991) in their book Situated Learning describe learning within a situation, within a community, as situated learning. A key component of situated learning is “legitimate peripheral participation”, which means that newcomers to a world of knowledge [...]
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Just received the evaluation data from the June Jazz workshop last week. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. All 72 participants said they would recommend Jazz to another teacher. I thought one of the open-ended questions on the evaluation form would make a great Wordle. Please describe the most valuable experience you feel that you had [...]
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In Jazz this morning, as we were debriefing from the week, the middle school and high school people really wanted to do MysteryQuest in one class period. Their class periods are 55 or 60 minutes. We brainstormed how it could work: New Schedule 4 groups x 5 min presentations = 20 min. for group presentations [...]
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