Did Anyone Notice? NECC + Gay Pride
So, as I’m planning my schedule for the NECC, I just realized a huge conflict: NECC pre-conference events are on Pride weekend. How am I to watch the parade and hear the opening keynote?! A little...
View ArticleNECC Buzzword Bingo
So you’ve made your plans for seeing NECC this week. You’ve mapped out every workshop, lecture, poster, and Starbucks to visit while in Atlanta. But you’ve forgotten one thing: your bingo card. To...
View ArticleNETS Refresh Session at NECC
The first NETS for students standards were releasd in 1998, after 2 years of development. The new standards have been in the works for a year. Feedback has come from all 50 states and 22 countries. The...
View ArticleAlgebra and Geometry Model Lesson
This is one of the model lessons at NECC, set up as if a teacher were teaching a regular lesson to students. The central floor had room for 25 students equipped with laptops, a smart board, and a...
View ArticleOpen Source Mindmapping With FreeMind
Open source software is doing gangbusters! I’m sitting in a hands-on open source lab on mindmapping using a tool called FreeMind. There are about 50 people in here using recycled laptops provided...
View ArticleStop the Portscanning!
I’ve been portscanned every single time I’ve booted my laptop at NECC Monday morning. Oddly (grin), no portscanning happened on Saturday when I was at the Georgia World Congress Center for...
View ArticleRedesign Research with Social Bookmarking
Lucie deLaBruere from St. Albans City School in rural Vermont. 11:00am Tuesday. Lucie also contributes to Infinite Thinking Machine. Furl for research: it can export formatted Works Cited pages....
View ArticleWay Beyond WebQuests with Gary Stager
Session at NECC 2007 with Gary Stager of Pepperdine University called “Way Beyond WebQuests and Information” on Wednesday at 8:30am. “Information is the smallest piece of education.” “If your dominant...
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