Is your dance card filled?

While my ‘dance card’ isn’t necessarily filling up as others have posted on Twitter, I was pleased to receive notification that my presentation proposal was accepted for TCEA 2009. My presentation will be about using webcasting/live interactive videoconferencing with students to enrich learning. I have presented at TCEA on several occasions and it is always [...]

ISTE - 0, Podcasters/Vodcasters - 1

In case you hadn’t heard latest backlash and outrage by citizens of the edublogosphere and twitterverse amidst the many emails flying back and forth to ISTE and edubloggers’ posts, ISTE has retracted part of their new audio/video recording policy and is allowing podcasting/vodcasting and streaming of presenter sessions at NECC2008.
Miguel Guhlin shared on his blog [...]

NECC Takes Two Steps Backwards

In case you hadn’t heard, it seems that NECC/ISTE have taken two steps backwards by announcing the implementation of their new media coverage policy of presenter sessions. With a little over a week, ISTE recently announced that is limiting the sharing of presenter sessions unless attendees jumped through multiple hoops to get permission to share [...]

Edublogs as Instructional Tools

As I was reading Twitter and blog posts, I came across the blog from Jeff Felix who researched using blogs as an instructional tool in the classroom. The blog post that caught my attention is entitled, “The Study on Blogging Educators is Complete!”, and was created for the following reason:
“This blog is posted in order [...]

Another Blast to the Past

Speaking of blasts from the past, I recalled a Twitter tweet last night regarding the origin of Twitter. Twitter is one of my new pastimes and I have gleaned a great deal of new ed tech information the past few weeks that I directly attribute to reading Twitter posts.
Originating as Twittr, Twitter has evolved into [...]

A Blast to the Past

As I was reading some of the Twitter tweets from people I follow, I came across this post:

Click on the image to access the referred to website and make note of the date the article was written as shared by Digimom. Digimom authors a blog entitled, “Tech Chick Tips” thinks the article missed the mark. [...]

Tweet Tweet!

No, I am not quoting lyrics from the Rockin’ Robin song. I was referring to ‘tweets’ sent by the people I follow on Twitter. Initially I wasn’t that impressed with Twitter and didn’t keep up with it until I met Topher Ziers who is the author of the blog, “Muve Forward“. We started talking about [...]

You want fries with that?

One of my colleagues often asks, “You want fries with that?” when his employees ask a ridiculous question or request. Granted, the question is meant in jest but I understand why he answers a question with this question.
I was reading a post from Chris Lehmann’s blog, “Reasonable Actions for Unreasonable Times” that talked about the [...]