2¢ Worth

I didn’t know what to expect from this presentation — antichrist; or thoughtful, well presented arguments. I couldn’t go along with many of the proclamations that he made, but I couldn’t disagree with most of his arguments. The anarchy isn’t going away, and there’s value in it. The key is helping students […]

Ethan Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, which has the goal of sending Western geek volunteers to the developing world where they help with technology. His latest creation is Global Voices, which seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation on-line — shining light on places and people other media often ignore. He is also […]

Live Blogged — so please forgive typos and awkward wording

Stephen Heppell at OLA

It took less time to get from Raleigh to Toronto than it took to get through the Toronto airport. I’m sure there’s a reason. Checked in to my room and now sitting in the InterContinental Ballroom for Stephen Heppell’s opening keynote […]

I am happily (ecstatically) home … for about 12 hours. Then off again for some more conferencing. But this one is going to be special. I’ll arrive in Toronto, for the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference 2008, just in time to see Stephen Heppell’s keynote. Microsoft calls Heppell, “Europe’s leading on-line […]

I’ve been on the go pretty solidly since I left the Educon 2.0 conference in Philadelphia yesterday.  I have to confess that I felt a bit odd, after engaging in idea building conversational sessions over the weekend, and then standing in front of several hundred classroom teachers in Long Island, and presenting about literacy.  It’s […]

We just finished the opening panel discussion, which included Will Richardson, Gary Stager, Joyce Valenza, Sylvia Martinez, David Jakes, Chris Lehmann, and it was brilliant. There were big questions and lots of short answers. But all together their short answers spoke volumes.
Right now, I’m in the social networking session, presided over Glenn Moses, […]

The picture to the right is the Internet on a bad day.  No worries.  The engineer is on his or her way up to reconnect it.  No need to get upset.  It’s not like I have a presentation to prepare for, because today I’m just learning — at the Educon 2.0. 
I’ve seen bits and […]

How refreshing.  A presentation about blogging that isn’t about blogs.  It’s about writing.  Quote:
“Learning to read and write is not learning how texts stick together, but how people stick together…” (Brandt 1990)
The presenter is Sara Kajder and she’s talking about telling a story.  She’s talking about the difference between having students start with images and […]

Live Blogged
Literacies for Learning in 3-D Virtual Worlds. This is a session that will focus mostly on Second Life, as the virtual world that most folks know about. Lynn Anderson-Inman, of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education, is talking about the central qualities of virtual worlds. She itemizing and describing…

immersive,
interactive, […]

TRLD (Technology, Reading, and Learning Diversity) is an incredible conference.  It’s small, but it is a community.  Many, if not more than half of the attendees of my sessions have been to this conference before, and very few of them are from California.  There is a fairly sizable contingent from Canada. 
Dr. Donald Leu kicked […]