Streaming Thoughts

It has taken quite awhile for me to really piece together my experience at NECC. I’ll be honest, I’ll still be piecing it together for sometime to come. I went into the conference expecting to meet new people and meet face to face with those I’ve connected with on-line over the past year [...]

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I often receive rolling eyes when I mention
conversations I’ve had with others. Well, NECC is here and a lot of
it is about conversation. Conversations in the halls of the conference
center, the Blogger’s Cafe, before, during and after concurrent
sessions or at dinner. Tonight’s conference kicked off well for
conversation with Brian Crosby, Bud [...]

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Keeping with helping the PR committee for the K12 Online Conference last year I must follow the lead of Bud the Teacher and Darren Karopatwa in sharing out the call for proposals for this year’s conference. As you may or may not know, this conference is on-going. A unique conference that keeps on [...]

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Upon returning from NECC in Atlanta last month, I have been resting up as well as tracking the online info regarding the conference. In doing so, I have been reflecting much more about my online presence. Over the past two years as an instructional technology specialist, my colleague and I have thought that [...]

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Back blogging from NECC…
My conference started at a mobile device panel discussion. Julie Lindsay shared a video one of her students created and posted on YouTube…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7CXcQhqRI]
Janice Kelly talked about how her students were using Palm IIIc handhelds. lashed the question to the group about whether anyone’s solving the mobile device access by seeking older, [...]

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This session was about how to implement handhelds in schools that have never thought of them before. Lynn Lair & Rob DeLilli from Wheelerville Union Free School a rural school in Upstate New York. Their introduction to handhelds was through the Magellan Foundation’s NY Talks Program several years ago.
They started with this question: [...]

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Wendy (my better half) and I had the chance to meet Tony Vincent prior to his keynote address at MAHC 2006 and chat about some tools to use for her classroom. Tony’s keynote was about the creative, crazy and cool ways to use handheld computers in classrooms.
Creative uses:

Contacts - create a category in [...]

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Karen Fasimpaur joined the MAHC early and filled in for a late presenter cancellation. Palm and PocketPC users converged to learn how using handheld computers can improve instruction and learning for K-12 students.
Karen suggested that teachers and technology leaders consider the outcomes of using handheld computers prior to committing to a purchase. Keep [...]

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Here at the Mid-Atlantic Handheld Conference with about 200 other handheld profiecient (or soon-to-be proficient teachers. Sounds like some have traveled from all over the Atlantic coast. There was also a core group of teachers from Texas. I am moblogging from a pre-conference session about “Emerging Technologies & Handheld Devices + Beam Party” [...]

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Well, in a few hours I will be going to Salisbury University to my first ever handheld conference. Gosh! It took me long enough. I will be listening and networking tomorrow and get a feel of where I am in the world of handhelds in education. I always enjoy conferences because [...]

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