http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach A "teacher to go" blogs about teaching, technology, and education in general Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:53:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is from the Bloggers' Cafe at NECC in San Antonio. I know this sound facetious, but I am serious. I had two ideas for new types of NECC sessions for 2009, since several BYOL sessions have been "closed" due to fire safety regs. Clearly there is a real desire ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/07/01/necc-idea-game-show-sessions-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/ The NECC  session on Classroom 2.0: Exploring the Potential of Web 2.0 with backchat at http://www.chatzy.com/610230759294 presented a good philosophical and "historical perspective" on what web 2.0 is and what it means. The panel had some diverse comments and angles (wise crowd or homogeneous group?). I was left a thought to ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/30/web-20-why-is-it-important-and-further-musings-for-the-afternoon-at-necc/ Amanda Lenhart of PEW with data re internet use and teens 12-17. 66% households have Internet, 22 still on dial-up, 10% not online at home. SOe populations very different. What are they doing online? (lots of good) 94% research for school, 81% research info on entertainment info 58% have profile online, 77% of ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/30/internet-safety-town-hall-part-2/ I am live-blogging from this NECC session.  All spelling erros, especially fo things mentioned but not spelled out for us are due to the real time nature of this post. Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse is profiling "tween" use of digital gadgets and how they use them:  texting teens 13-24 >50 msg /week. ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/30/internet-safety-town-hall-at-necc/ For those of you who have never experienced NECC, especially teachers, picture Friday night HS football crowds, each with a laptop, sitting on everything available, including the floor.  The wireless has gone up and down four times in the past 20 minutes as I tried to start this entry. Just ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/30/blogging-at-necc/ The lightning has struck in San Antonio, and the sparks are flying. My presentation blog and hundreds of Ning discussions, blog posts, wikis, and web sites are ready to go for the weekend and next week. NECC is here. For those blogging the conference, the Spanning the Gap presentation has ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/26/wildfires-and-supermarket-sweep-in-san-antonio/ Pearson and CoSN published a video on YouTube and elsewhere: "Learning to Change/Changing to Learn," all about 21st Century learning and reimaging what education is.  I always have my suspicions about any commercial entity (especially one as HUGE as Pearson) publishing such a a video -- and the inevitable product launch ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/09/learning-is-brave-in-the-21st-century/ Some people pack bags or arrange for a kennel. I am fortunate enough to be preparing a presentation. See my musings about this process on the new (today) presentation blog. Please wish me luck! http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/06/05/getting-ready-for-necc/ I am following up on my previous post about TagUrIt, my mythical tool to pull all outside feedback and response into a single place for a learner to synthesize feedback received from all products and projects, no matter what the medium. Lifestream apparently does this. (I have a vague memory of reading about ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/05/28/the-web-20-tool-thats-already-there-sort-of/ I spent the morning sorting through old emails for pull-quotes to use on some promotional materials, and the process brought on a surge of reflection. I have been in this job since 2006 and have always kept a "teachers out there" folder within my email for messages that tell me ... http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2008/05/22/why-my-life-is-sorted-into-email-folders-a-teaching-idea/