Jul 3rd, 2008
Lots of folks are reflecting on their NECC experiences. The reactions vary. Scott’s bullish, while Sheryl is not so sure. Also, towards the end of the conference, there were LOTS of tweets about brains hurting and brains shutting down. Ewan, using the work of Chris Craft, even wrote about this seeming cognitive overload. My guess [...]
Jul 1st, 2008
On the lighter side (figuratively, not at all literally)… I had some great eating experiences while in San Antonio for NECC. It all started Friday night when I told Scott McLeod that I was hoping that the hotel’s continental breakfast would involve my favorite flip-over self-serve waffle irons. Well, Saturday morning we learned that not [...]
Jun 30th, 2008
Something (perhaps some thingS) is (are) rubbing me the wrong way about NECC. I’ll reflect a bit more over time, but for today I want to write a bit about a related set of issues about which I am incredibly passionate. My ed. leadership professorial friends/colleagues and I joke about what we perceive as an [...]
Jun 29th, 2008
Hanging out at the blogger’s cafe this afternoon, and this is more what I expected from yesterday. Lots of people pecking away at their keyboards and chatting away. Jeff Utecht is live streaming in one direction, while people in the cafe are watching the feed of an area 5 feet away. People are chatting, tweeting, [...]
Jun 28th, 2008
Just sat through most of the “discussion” on filtering policies. Good/interesting discussion. My take: “Policies” vary across districts. Some have very stringent AUPs that go well beyond CIPA (for example). One participant spoke about a “mature” AUP that trusts kids and teachers to do the right thing. They treat “bad” sites like bad books or [...]