K12 online conference 2009 keynote

I will be joining educators worldwide at the k12 online conference 2009 over the next three weeks. No travel required, attendance flexible, learning inevitable. Join us, the schedule is posted here, however if you get there late, don’t worry, the presentations will be waiting for you.
The keynote below was published this morning and provided a great [...]

Feed me! My delicious PLN

I just added a new rss feed to my “all in one place” place.
It was one of those, why didn’t I do this sooner, slap head moments.
I got the idea after a brief exchange in a chatroom between Jackie Gerstein and Joyce Valenza on liveclass2.0 on Saturday. The topic of the day was diigo. Jackie mentioned how she often [...]

Virtual Conference Crashing via netvibes

Conference Crashing 101
Massachusetts Computer using educators annual conference takes place this week. To have one place to monitor, listen and watch what is going on I created a public page on netvibes that monitors the tags masscue and masscue09.

As soon as actual attendees post online via twitter, flickr, delicious, diigo, and blogs, it will feed to [...]

PLN brings questions, then delivers answers

It continues to amaze me how the learning network that I am immersed in seems to have a life of its own. This was the conversation it was having this weekend.
I was reading this brave post by Lisa Thumann “I just don’t like technology” about how to deal with a comment from a professional [...]

Free upcoming online professional development

Watching my twitter feed and email account, I have been saving up these notices about free upcoming online professional development and I am excited by how my calendar is so full of great opportunities to learn.
I thought it would be useful to consolidate them into one post and share it out. This is low-hanging fruit [...]

8 Delicious Did You Knows

Delicious is my social bookmarking site of choice. If you don’t have an account-get one here and if you don’t know what social bookmarking is, this video will explain.  This is for those who already use delicious and might want to learn more.
Did you know
1. You can backup your delicious account by exporting a html file of your bookmarks. [...]

The twitter effect-Educon21 in 5 tweets

If my children’s teachers and principal’s lived by these tweets. All would be well.
It’s never this simple, but it should be.

The Twitter Effect-weekend virtual conferencing @educon21

Virtually at educon21 over the weekend. The staff and students at SLA did a wonderful job. Parent volunteers too, I hear!It was easy to become part of the conference from afar as all the sessions were streamed using mogulus. With the visual, audio, chat and twitter all happening at once it was a cacophony for the edtech [...]

The Twitter Effect Day 11

Inauguration day.
A ”tweet call out” last week from coolcatteacher had me engaging with a classroom outside of my own school, outside of my own state. She was demonstrating twitter to her class and called for us to respond by replying to her and sharing where we were from and how we used twitter. Coolcatteacher (aka Vicki Davis) [...]

The Twitter Effect Day Ten

So today I answered a question for @spedteacher who wants to connect with his tribe.

I sent him to a twitter4teachers wiki.

I had added my twitter id a few weeks ago. I hope he finds some great people to connect and learn with. I am sure others will respond with good info too, so I [...]