Blog Juice for Educational Technology

There are many ways that we might take NECC to new dimensions through its wireless access to the World Wide Web, especially version two of this digital space. But perhaps the simplest and most potent way is by blogging the sessions that you attend. So here are some steps and pointers for blogging […]

I don't think this has been posted here yet. Jeff Rice, chair of C&W 2007, has created a trailer for next year's conference, which will be hosted by Wayne State U: http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/trailer_cw2.mov.

I wanted to double and triple check this before I blogged it, but it’s been confirmed from the very highest levels. NECC 2006, San Diego, will be wireless. All of the session rooms will be wireless with a hard wire Ethernet connection for presenters.
The NECC folks are also working with the San Diego […]

One month from now, I’ll be at NECC. Certainly the richest and deepest educational technology conference, probably in the world, NECC offers more to more people about new technologies in education than any other event, and it proves each year to be exhaustingly exhilarating experience — almost a high.
During most years the conference becomes […]

This paper reading at conferences has got to stop. Don’t read your paper at a conference. The next time you think, “Oh, I’ll just bring my paper and read it at the conference,” remember: Platypus Matt told you not to do it.

There are few things I fear more at a conference than getting stuck in a stuffy conference room and forced to endure one hour and fifteen minutes of paper reading delivered at a monotone (the word from which “monotonous” is derived–look it up). Yes, I know that this is entirely my fault. I could get up and leave, mumbling something about “dagnabbit paper readers” under my breath as I vacate the premise like Sonic the Hedgehog. I always end up sitting in the front, right in front of the, er, “speakers,” and would feel guiltier than OJ just standing up and walking out. You see, I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, even as my consciousness is sucked from my brain with a loud “spllggging” sound.

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I’ve been attending the eLIVE conference in Edinburgh. Well, I’ve actually been spending my eighteen-hour work days lately moving web sites to my new honkin’ dedicated server and programming. But, I’ve seen the conference, through “elive” tagged pictures in flickr, and through the bloggings of Will Richardson, Ian Mcintosh, David Muir, and John […]

There are several things that I like about formated RSS Aggregators. One is the ability to include a variety of media types on my aggregation page, including photos from flickr. My Aggregator (NetVibes) has a news page (news and news search feeds), education page (edubloggers and education news feeds), a tech page (self-expanatory), […]

There are several things that I like about formated RSS Aggregators. One is the ability to include a variety of media types on my aggregation page, including photos from flickr. My Aggregator (NetVibes) has a news page (news and news search feeds), education page (edubloggers and education news feeds), a tech page (self-expanatory), […]

My last session at the e-Learning Summit yesterday was Telling the New Story. I made it more of a workshop, with lots of discussion, and I’m discovering that this is not easy. Our stories are long and deep and philosophical, and these kinds of stories, though they are great implementation stories, will not […]

My last session at the e-Learning Summit yesterday was Telling the New Story. I made it more of a workshop, with lots of discussion, and I’m discovering that this is not easy. Our stories are long and deep and philosophical, and these kinds of stories, though they are great implementation stories, will not […]

I’m off today for Ausburg college and the 2006 Minnesota e-Learning Summit, in Minneapolis. I do not know very much about this conference. It’s organized by Minnesota Government Training Services, which appears to do a lot of professional development activities and not just in education.
I’ll be delivering the opening Keynote tomorrow on twenty-first […]

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I’ve not had the opportunity to hear Susan Patrick before. As someone said as I was setting up, she has a long and very distinguished history. Today she is speaking from her capacity as the President/CEO of the North American Council […]

I believe that I am going to enjoy a unique experience today. I’m speaking at the North Carolina Distance Learning Alliance conference in magnificent Asheville, North Carolina. I know a number of educators who will be hear, teachers and administrators who have dedicated a great deal of their time and formidable creativity to […]