A conversation about the Learning 2.008 Conference

While visiting with Ken Caroll at the Praxis Language studios before I left Shanghai, Ken and I sat down and just started talking about the conference. The format, who was attending and just had a conversation aroun… Continue

Posted by Jeff Utecht on June 25, 2008 at 1:48am — 2 Comments

It’s a good time to be teaching about Learning 2.0

It's hard to believe that these teachers have just begun their summer vacations!

I suspect that it has been traditionally believed that the last time you'd want to do staff development was May and early June, just after the school year is over (Northern Hemisphere). Teachers just aren't ready for it. The tests are behind them, the students are behind them, and vacation is just a f… Continue

Posted by David Warlick on June 17, 2008 at 6:25pm — No Comments

Help spread the word about Learning 2.008!

Ken Caroll of Praxis Language (and the famous ChinesePod.com) invited me out to their new studio here in Shanghai to record some sound bites for the Learning 2.008 conference. Ke… Continue

Posted by Jeff Utecht on June 11, 2008 at 7:18am — 1 Comment

Spanning the Centuries

It's really part of what education is about, spanning not only the intersecting aspects of life today, what we need about who we are, where we are, why we are, and what we do with all of it. But education is also about help children find their place in the when. As a former history teacher, I revel in telling the stories of our present made from our past. But today, I s… Continue

Posted by David Warlick on June 2, 2008 at 5:57am — No Comments

Conference Update and EduBloggerCon Shanghai

We had a great planning meeting last night looking at the latest numbers for the conference. Not a good sign when we have more presentations then people registered for the conference. :( I’m not to worried at this point, but then again I’m not the one in charge of the money. :) This is why there aren’t many educational conferences in September. The timing just isn’t good. Schools are just now really looking at finances for next year and many teachers are not sure what their PD funds will look l… Continue

Posted by Jeff Utecht on May 9, 2008 at 9:54am — 4 Comments

Learning 2.008

Yup .. I was right. I'm watching the 2.008 conference grow. Hope the venue is just as good, maybe bigger. Continue

Posted by David Navis on May 7, 2008 at 9:59am — No Comments

Shambles Newsletter : May 2008 now online (only 3 a year)

This is to confirm that the 18th termly "Shambles" Newsletter from The Education Project Asia is now available online - designed for International School Communities across S.E.Asia. It can be viewed online at http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/may2008 Topics this term include: - New on Shambles : Climate Change/Maths/Olympics/Sec Education - International Schools Island in Second Life (3D online virtual world) - Second Life Presentatio… Continue

Posted by Chris Smith on May 7, 2008 at 12:32am — No Comments

Hotel Information

Hotel registration is the responsibility of the registrant. We will provide shuttle service to hotels in the general vicinity of the host school, SCIS (http://www.scischina.org), the Hongqiao Campus. We have pre-determined hotels in close proximity for a range of pricing options from as little as US$36 to US$114. The recommended Learning 2.008 hotels for this year are: Broadway Plaza Hotel Shanghai:… Continue

Posted by Jeff Utecht on April 6, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Japan ASCD Try-It-On-Monday Workshop

Japan ASCD Try-It-On-Monday Workshop Technology for Teaching and Learning: Just-In-Time Tech April 26, 2008 – American School in Japan, Chofu Campus – 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. http://www.jascd.org/tioms/tioms.html Continue

Posted by Brian Lockwood on April 6, 2008 at 7:37am — No Comments

Open Letter to Vendors

Dear Vendors, In September, 2007, the East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (http://www.earcos.org) and the Association of China and Mongolia International Schools (http://www.acamis.org) organized our first Learning 2.0 conference for 400+ international educators (http://learning2cn.ning.com). Our conference featured a number of prominent speakers from the educational community, including Alan November, Will Richardson, Wesley Fryer, Jamie McKenzie, and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.   Our fe… Continue

Posted by Jeff Utecht on April 1, 2008 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

5to Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática: SIECI 2008

CONVOCATORIA 5to Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática: SIECI 2008 en el contexto de la Séptima Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática: CISCI 2008 Del 29 de Junio al 2 de Julio de 2008, Orlando, Florida (EE.UU.) www.infocibernetica.org/sieci2008 Presidente Honorario: Freddy Malpica Presidentes: Andrés Tremante y Friedrich Welsch Presidentes Comité de Programa: Ángel Oropeza y José Vicente Carrasquero Presidente Comisión Organizadora: Belk… Continue

Posted by Neli Maria Mengalli on March 3, 2008 at 10:12am — No Comments

SuTree - a useful educational video resource

Hi all,

I'd like to introduce SuTree.com (http://www.sutree.com ) - the world's leading aggregator of instructional videos and a growing knowledge community. I thought it might be useful for the members of this community.

Feel free to visit SuTree, join the community, review it in your blogs, embed SuTree's widgets in your blog/site, send us any comments or suggestions...

Best,
Alya Ilyashenko
partner coordinator, SuTree.… Continue

Posted by SuTree on November 21, 2007 at 6:33pm — No Comments

Learning 2.0 Photo Presentation

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Posted by Chris Smith on October 14, 2007 at 4:16pm — 1 Comment

I enjoyed NINGing so much, that I made one for Thailand

http://intschtech.ning.com/

I enjoyed NINGing so much at learn2cn, that I made one for Thailand. Thai schools meet up three times a year - the next one is at NIST on 8th Oct. I offered Au Bon Pain breakfast and lunch, but you had to sig…

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Posted by Paul White on October 5, 2007 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Chris Jordan- His website is well worth the time!

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Posted by Rob Ferrin on October 4, 2007 at 3:52pm — No Comments

How ya like them apples?

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Posted by Rob Ferrin on October 4, 2007 at 2:55pm — No Comments

A Room with a Company View!

Introduction:

I wanted to write a company perspective on the Softease experiences in Shanghai and at the Learning 2.0 conference!

We have been involved with looking at international markets for our software for a number of years.. Plus, with our future developments biased towards the Web 2.0…

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Posted by Eugenie Morley on October 2, 2007 at 4:23pm — 2 Comments

Returning to Shanghai

The conference was so much fun and the city so entertaining, I have decided to return and run a two day seminar, that I am calling

NEW CENTURY RESEARCH

Check out http://fno.org/shanghai.html

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Posted by Jamie McKenzie on October 1, 2007 at 2:12am — No Comments

identity crash

------ This entry from the Urban Dictionary seemed very appropriate! -----

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September 30, 2007: identity crash

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=identity+crash&defid=2585949

Sudden and catastrophic collapse of an individual's ability to keep all the threads of his or her online identity straight when the individual joins one too many social networks.

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Posted by Jamie McKenzie on October 1, 2007 at 2:09am — No Comments

Do you see what I see?

Cross-posted from my blog at Thinking Allowed.

This post has been a long time coming.

For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by the ever-growing need for visual literacy in our off- and on-line worlds. This is not ground-breaking stuff…the sense/need for learners to gain visual literacy has been around for a while – even pre-Web.

People have been studying and manipulating how the eye moves over a page of text (see any speed reader…

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Posted by Dennis Harter on October 1, 2007 at 12:28am — No Comments

Shred the Internet

Asking students to annotate bibliography entries encourages them to shred the Internet to critically evaluate information sources. Applying some of Alan November's tips to the process has improved their abilities to critically evaluate information sources.
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Posted by Rhonda Carrier on September 30, 2007 at 6:11pm — No Comments

Digital Arts Menu for Multiple Intelligences Wiki: Please Contribute Your Favorites!

[Update: the wiki password is: welcome]

As promised in an earlier post tonight, I set up the staff development workshop wiki with pages dedicated to web 2.0 and other digital tools best suited to each of Gardner's eight multiple intelligences.

I hope you'll agree to two things:

1. This type of organi… Continue

Posted by Clay Burell on September 29, 2007 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Unlocking Teacher Creativity: An Approach to Staff Development?

[Cross-post from Beyond School]

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Posted by Clay Burell on September 29, 2007 at 4:19am — No Comments

Exploring Ning

I have been attempting to set up a private network on Ning; get to know the features, learn how to work with web 2.0. It is only a small family community, but I have some questions. I'll just start with the first though.

Why can't I size widgets? They do not seem to be fitting in properly, either trunkacted or over the box space? But I notice that the learning 2.0 page has the same weather widget I tried and it s compete on their page.

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Posted by Renee Stewart on September 27, 2007 at 11:57pm — No Comments

Making do with what is working

So 15 Dell PC's in a networked room, and two others in a separate art room. Two mother boards in each room have gone up. Others slowing down threaten to crash. The log in admin system has frozen passwords,..but still I demonstrate photoshop, and teach the near thirty kids in the room the illustrative uses for photoshop, turning photos to drawings, moving them into indesign etc. It feels like a war, in which you do your best knowing the equipment is going to hell. Because you are not 509 tech fun… Continue

Posted by judith loeber on September 27, 2007 at 4:58am — No Comments

"anti-Learning 2.0"?

It struck me as ironic that I am sitting here working through collaborative efforts, connecting with others, and exploring the implications and applications of Learning 2.0 while my students are (and have been) "chained" to their tables as we administer the annually imposed CTP IV standardized tests. These are scheduled in the fall during an already chopped up quarter (one week off for Chinese National Day and one week out of school for class trip to Beijing). Two periods a day for 5 days… Continue

Posted by Robert Hulse on September 26, 2007 at 2:47pm — No Comments

The power of the post.........Peace day turn to peace month and beyond!

Cross post from http://www.medagogy.edublogs.org

Big movements start with small steps.................

A simple conversation with Scott last week started like most conversations at ISB, passing each other in the hall. Scott just attended the LEARNING 2.0 and is eager to explore many of the ideas and tool he picked up there.

"Hey Justin! I'm looking to get…

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Posted by Justin Medved on September 26, 2007 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Overwhelmed with options

I used to work in Kazakhstan 10 years ago. There were only 3 types of bread available, a coarse common Russian bread, a Kazak Naan, and a heavy dark loaf. I remember the first holiday (after 2 years) when I went into a New Zealand supermarket. I was totally lost and overwhelmed by the choices in the bread isle. My mum had to come and drag me out after 40 minutes and still no bread chosen.

This is how I am feeling right now. Totally overwhelmed with the options and choices that are out…

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Posted by Renee Stewart on September 26, 2007 at 9:35am — 7 Comments

Overwhelmed with options

I used to work in Kazakhstan 10 years ago. There were only 3 types of bread available, a coarse common Russian bread, a Kazak Naan, and a heavy dark loaf. I remember the first holiday (after 2 years) when I went into a New Zealand supermarket. I was totally lost and overwhelmed by the choices in the bread isle. My mum had to come and drag me out after 40 minutes and still no bread chosen.

This is how I am feeling right now. Totally overwhelmed with the options and choices that are out…

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Posted by Renee Stewart on September 26, 2007 at 9:35am — No Comments

K12Online07- Tag You are it! 3 Reasons Blog Meme

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3 Reasons Meme

Time for a new blog meme to help us spread the word about the upcoming K12Online07 conference. Please share either three (3) reasons to participate based on your experience from last year or (if you didn't attend last year) three (3) things you hope to gain from the experience this year.…

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Posted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on September 26, 2007 at 3:48am — No Comments

Edublogger IQ Contest - Early Results, Plus a Shout-Out and Philosophical Closing

[Cross-posted from Beyond School]

Stephen Downes (top) trounced me (bottom) with a 98.98. He is King. (Nice new 'do, Stephen!)… Continue

Posted by Clay Burell on September 25, 2007 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Access the mind map "take away" from our discussion about the role of the Instructional Technologist as a leader for making the 2.0 shift in our schools.

E-mail me at davidcarp@yahoo to receive an invite to the mind map we created at www.mindmeister.com. We also started a mind map to discuss the new NETS and what they might look like in our classrooms. Learning 2.0 continues...
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Posted by David Carpenter on September 25, 2007 at 6:32pm — 2 Comments

Getting started with web 2.0 tools ...

Started several Web 2.0 activities for my students - hope something comes of it ... I know, a lot depends on how much energy I can get into the sites and then the kids will take off with them ... a del.icio.us site for my Year 8 ICT class so that as they study websites (for accuracy, reliability and bias) they can share their findings with the whole class even though we meet only once a week; a Wetpaint wiki for my Year 7 maths class; and a another wiki for my Year 9 ICT class who are studying f… Continue

Posted by Ross Polson on September 25, 2007 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Post Conference Reflection

I sit here waiting for Cyclone Wipha to come in and do what it has to do over the next couple of days here in Pudong, Shanghai. Time for me to relect on my experiences at the Learning 2.0 conference that I attended and to read up on the other comments from other attendees and colleagues who went.

I feel as though I have been living u

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Posted by David van de Klundert on September 25, 2007 at 4:26pm — No Comments

Screencast: "What is Blogging? Part 2: Using Technorati to Connect with Your Readers"

[Cross-posted from Beyond School.]

Back in August, I posted a screencast called… Continue

Posted by Clay Burell on September 24, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The World is Flat- Up Close and Personal

Would love to hear your thoughts on the three take aways I list in my most recent post on techLEARNING. The post is my reflections from a recent visit to Shanghai, China where I presented at the Learning 2.0 conference. http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/09/the_world_is_flat_up_close_and.php

Shanghai might surprise you- it sur…

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Posted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on September 24, 2007 at 4:15am — No Comments

Several New Posts about Shanghai, Learning 2.0 Conference and Teaching Abroad

Check out my blog for several new posts about my recent experience in Shanghai.

http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com
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Posted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on September 24, 2007 at 2:14am — No Comments

What's next? After the conference...

After an exciting weekend at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, I came back energized and ready to get started with Global Collaboration. Yesterday Kim (Cofino) and I had a meeting to discuss next steps. One of the projects we would like to begin with is a video introducing our school to other classes. This will give a meaningful context to the student's work. They will brainstorm their ideas, write the script, choose the photos and drawings to include, add video, etc. Since I teach second… Continue

Posted by Susan Souza on September 23, 2007 at 11:17am — No Comments

Creativity in Music and Drama - "Movie Sountracks"

I am just buzzing from Ken Robinson's video presentation and how I can apply this to my classroom!!

Students in my class General Music and Drama are into creating their own movie soundtracks. Originally I was going to use this as a short segway into learning piano keyboards and musicianship/theory unit, but we've (surprise, surprise!) been side tracked by the students' creativity!!

So, the unit is simple - "In groups of…

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Posted by Sally Oxenberry on September 21, 2007 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

Will's Post on Shanghai: Impressionism at Its Best

[Cross-posted from my Beyond School]

If… Continue

Posted by Clay Burell on September 19, 2007 at 4:16am — No Comments

Mashing Up Shakespeare: A Constructivism 2.0 Project for King Lear in Advanced Placement Literature

[Cross-posted from my Beyond School blog]

In one of the great ironies of my life, I'm probably the only HS teacher at KIS not to have a 1:1 classroom, since I teach only AP Lit for se… Continue

Posted by Clay Burell on September 19, 2007 at 1:23am — 1 Comment

20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0

[Cross posted from my blog, Always Learning]

We all know that you only get out of a conference what you put in. So, I did my best to make the Learning 2.0 unconference sessions work for me by moderating 2 of the 3 sessions (during the third session I was totally wrapped up in Alan November’s amazing presentation on

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Posted by Kim Cofino on September 18, 2007 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Alan November and Gary Stager

Alan November Notes

More Alan November Notes

Notes on Gary Stager's Session

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Posted by Rhonda Carrier on September 18, 2007 at 9:07am — No Comments

Dylan 2.0

Marketing 2.0? Bob Dylan weighs in on the conference. Thanks to everyone for a great weekend!
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Posted by dsgran on September 17, 2007 at 8:50pm — 1 Comment

Energized and Inspired: Reflections from the Learning 2.0 Conference

[Cross posted from my blog, Always Learning]

What a weekend! I’ve barely been able to sleep since the Learning 2.0 Conference started because my brain has been in overdrive - just being around so many like-minded people in one place was absolutely the most inspiring experience I’ve had in years. Over the summer I was jealously following the tweets from

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Posted by Kim Cofino on September 17, 2007 at 6:40pm — No Comments

Second Life Session (Sunday Morning)

It's Monday lunchtime and I'm in Bangkok airport waiting for my connecting flight to Chiangmai and although it is only 24 hours since our 'happening' happened it already seems to be a world apart ..... unless, I guess, that world was Second Life.

Second Life was the last session I was involved in on Sunday and I couldn't have hoped for a better finish .... one that allowed us to connect and talk with a group of similar minded educators on another… Continue

Posted by Chris Smith on September 17, 2007 at 3:38pm — 2 Comments

Internet Speed in Shanghai

What Internet speeds do schools in Shanghai have?
Who is your service provider and what package are you using?
How do you manage it so you have an acceptable connection speed throughout the day?
Are there any bottlenecks?
What services do you have to avoid?
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Posted by Matt Seigal on September 17, 2007 at 10:15am — No Comments

I'm Still Amazed: My Learning 2.0 in Shanghai

Cross-posted from my Beyond School blog - VISIT, SAY HI, CONNECT! There were too many of us to get to know each other! You visit me and I'll visit you :)

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Posted by Clay Burell on September 17, 2007 at 4:31am — 1 Comment

Join the Global Education Collaborative Ning

Hi to everyone at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai! It sounds like you're participating in an amazing event!

I'm Lucy Gray and I just moved to a new job at the University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement after teaching for 7 years at an independent school also associated with the University of Chicago. Part of my new job involves coaching teachers and students at one charter school in anything ed tech related. The other part involves designing and implementing a te… Continue

Posted by Lucy Gray on September 16, 2007 at 11:12pm — 1 Comment

Draft Post for Shanghaiist: How many teachers does it take to turn on a computer?

I am about to submit a post to Shanghaiist.com, which is a local independent news and cultural blog that is part of the Gothamist network. Any feedback, additions or corrections are welcome.

We’ve just spent an entertaining and enlightening weekend at the Learning2cn education technology conference at Concordia International School in Jingqiao.
The topics covered included podcasts, wikis, cyberbullying a
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Posted by Matt Seigal on September 16, 2007 at 4:35pm — 1 Comment

Sal, computers and music education.....

Hey,
This is the first time I've managed to write a blog. I wonder if anyone will read it, I wonder if anyone's interested in it? I wonder if I'll get any responses.

The conference was great and i came away with loads of ideas and new techy things to try. I'm impressed how instant and fast people post things for others to read/share/comment on.

In teaching Middle School (grades 6 - 8) music, I ponder upon developing the whole child in education and continue to teach the art… Continue

Posted by Sally Oxenberry on September 16, 2007 at 2:30pm — 9 Comments

Twitter and Learn2cn

I got the impression that twitter was being used like announcements, rather than a conversation, so was wondering if learn2cn was following its followers? Continue

Posted by Nick Noakes on September 16, 2007 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Collaborative Projects Developed During Unconference Sessions Today!

Another great unconference session today!

Our group came up with tons of great ideas for collaborative projects for elementary. These ideas are only a starting point, please feel free to add anything you would like to start collaborating on in the replies:

The starting point:

Grade 5 Ideas:

Book Club / Literature Circle: Use Ning to share our thoughts on our reading - create literature circles with students from a variety of school… Continue

Posted by Kim Cofino on September 16, 2007 at 11:26am — No Comments

Virtual Film Festival

February 23, 2008
Upload student work and view/rate/comment online.
Contact rfriedericks@hkis.edu.hk for details.
A new-YouTube-like media server is being created at Hong Kong International School for this purpose.
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Posted by Richard Friedericks on September 16, 2007 at 11:25am — 1 Comment

questions

"stop answering questions" November
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Posted by Michael McGlade on September 16, 2007 at 11:14am — No Comments

Personal Learning Practice in a 2.0 World

Blogs

Cluster maps on blogs
Weblogg-ed (learning with the read/write web
Honesty is crucial and it can be difficult to articulate your thoughts
Blogging is a synthesis of ideas and enable us to receive feedback on our thoughts
As a result it is a tool for networking with others globally and receiving feedback from various perspectives

RSS

Daily curriculum

Del.icio.us

del.icio.us/willrich
Social bookma… Continue

Posted by Ian Gill on September 16, 2007 at 11:11am — No Comments

Unconference - online film festival

I've been looking for like minded people interested in student films and sharing ideas and resources about film in schools. After discussing this with different people during the unconference session and thanks to David Gran for starting the ball rolling, I thought I'd jump in at the deep end and set up an area using the great online site, Ning that I've learnt about at this conference. So here's the link http://filmmaking.ning.com/

If you're interested in film making in schools, go to… Continue

Posted by Andy Birch on September 16, 2007 at 11:09am — No Comments

New Literacy

www.shambles.net links to over 25,000 ICT sites! Lessons, International schools, administrative, software and more!

http://newliteracy.wikispaces.com/ Our Essential Question: How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century?

Will be adding more!

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Posted by techinteaching on September 16, 2007 at 11:08am — No Comments

Reflecting

Saskia--
Learning 2.0 was a really interesting conference, the unconference sessions especially. Manning the Twitter station was intimidating at first, but then I realised that it was actually a very simply put together. The wireless problem was something I had expected to happen, because there is no way that we could rely so heavily on technology and have nothing go wrong. But I think that the problem was solved efficiently and didn't ruin the conference, which was surprising.
I learned… Continue

Posted by Saskia Barker on September 16, 2007 at 10:57am — No Comments

The Last Post!!! Skype Success!!

Doug's session went really well.. Communicating with the UK - 3am for him; yet his presentation was great.. Informative, revealing and leaving us with some interesting thoughts...

He will be adding to his blog www.dougdickinson.co.uk/blog all the time.. You can find ALL the links from here and if you need help and guidance for how you can actually implement change in YOUR classroom - this is a great point of reference!

Thanks for…

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Posted by Eugenie Morley on September 16, 2007 at 10:42am — No Comments

Reflection on learning 2.0

I admire the enthusiasm of the teachers, especially with all this new technology. The unconference working is really impressive, had the session participants been our age, I think the sessions would have fallen apart. They were also reasonably easy to put together, it was much less complicated then I expected.
The range of knowledge from the participants was also amazing, some people didn't know what program was managing their wireless connections and others would open up their bios when the… Continue

Posted by Amelie de Haan on September 16, 2007 at 10:37am — No Comments

Notebooks and Necromancy

Just a little 22 sec vid with the Pogues...I am intrigued by everyone sitting around cradling Notebooks and Laptops, and only a little paper in sight (for those who still crave the scratch of pen on paper...even if it is a paper napkin or the reverse side of a business card Bernadette!). If anyon

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