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June 2009 posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

EdWeek Live Chat Today!

I'm getting a bit nervous for a text-based chat for EdWeek! This event starts in a half hour and everyone is encouraged to jump into the conversation. Here's an embedded version of the chat in CoveritLive:

Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 07:48 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Education Week: Cutting-Edge Classroom Technology

Education Week: Cutting-Edge Classroom Technology.

On June 23rd, I'll be a guest on Education Week's live chat on cutting-edge classroom technology along with Eric Klopfer of MIT. EdWeek's Katie Ash will be moderating. Come join this CoverItLive session and add your two cents! Make sure you check out EdWeek's tech publication, Digital Directions, too.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 05:39 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Explore Google Search

Explore Google Search.

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Google has launched a new section on their web site focused on Search features. Brief videos explain several of Search's features, including how to efficiently find public data, sport scores, weather reports and stock quotes. Did you know that the Search box also can serve as a calculator, dictionary, unit converter and flight tracker, too? There's more on this web site including interviews with Google Search engineers and user search stories.

Whenever I do workshops, it always surprises me how many people don't know about Search features! This should help, so spread the word!

Posted by Lucy Gray on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 05:27 AM in Google | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Another Good Quote

This comes from research cited in Future Lab's Opening Education: Towards New Learning Networks. 
"If academic standards are to be raised in a sustainable way, and broader educational aspirations achieved, then educationists will have to see their role in creating social capital rather than just improving classroom practice."

George Otero and John West-Burnham
Educational Leadership and Social Capital

Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM in Innovation | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Futurelab - Resources - Publications, reports & articles - Opening Education reports - 2020 and beyond

Futurelab - Resources - Publications, reports & articles - Opening Education reports - 2020 and beyond.
I'm going through several FutureLab reports for a project at work, and I found a quote worth sharing in this document:


Why, then, should educators consider some of the current predictions of developments in digital technologies?

If educators are to shape the future of education) and not have it shaped for them by external technical developments) it is crucial that we engaged with developments in digital technologies at the earliest stages. We need to understand how best we might harness these changes. Without this early engagement we risk, as always being the Cinderella sector of the technology world - constantly receiving the hand-me-downs from the business, defence and leisure industries and then trying to repurpose them for educational goals. Withouth this early engagement, we also risk designing educational practies and approaches that will be rendered obsolte and anachronistic in the context of new human-technology capabilities."

Well put!

Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 02:38 PM in Innovation | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Seth's Blog: You Matter

Seth's Blog: You matter.


I've been enjoying a few entries from Seth Godin's blog including this post which reminds me of many of my Apple Distinguished Educators friends. It describes many of their attributes and I hope I evolve in this direction. 


For the past few years, I've really wrestled with whether or not my work or ideas matter; it's not particularly good for one's morale to think that you don't matter. I think the bottom line is to not expect validation from one's peers or colleagues and be happy if that does happen. However, I do think supervisors should always be mindful of this when looking at the big picture within in an organization. On a personal level, think about the last time you let someone know that their work, ideas, contributions etc. matter. Pay it foward!


For more worthwhile posts by Seth Godin, check out these other two that I appreciated recently:


Textbook Rant


Learning from the MBA Program



Posted by Lucy Gray on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM in ADE | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Expanding Your NECC 2009 Experience

 

Cross Posted at the Infinite Thinking Machine

View and edit NECC 2009 Washington, DC in a larger map. Please add your recommendations!

It's that time of year again... The International Society for Technology in Education will celebrate its 30th birthday in a few weeks by hosting the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington, D.C. For me, it's a particularly exciting time to be visiting our nation's capital in light of our new president and a renewed focus on improving education.

NECC 2009 promises to be professionally rejuvenating event for anyone interested in educational technology. It is a potentially overwhelming conference with nearly 13,000 attendees and approximately 500 vendors presenting their wares. For the record, educational technology has never been about the tools for me (although I do revel in the cool factor of many technologies), but about leveraging learning for kids. That said, I hope that educators from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests will attend for similar reasons. I would actually like to see the excitement about educational technology filter down more to those who aren't necessarily techie geeks like myself.

For the past few years, I've posted a blog entry highlighting a few tips and tricks for making the most of your NECC experience. Review my ideas for 2007 and for 2008; I still stand by that general advice. Pick an area of focus, spend time planning before you get to Washington with that theme in mind, and give yourself plenty of time to digest everything. Bring your laptop for taking notes and accessing additional content; I suspect more people will be using iPhones for this purpose, however. Finally, get connected with other educators through the plethora of events that are scheduled. For the second year, ISTE has an online community for conference conversation. Networking isn't just for job seekers or administrators anymore!

If you are not able to attend in person, you should be able to participate virtually as well. Some presenters may elect to post their materials online and to stream video feeds of their presentations. At Edubloggercon, an informal "unconference" to be held Saturday, June 27 as a precursor to NECC, many sessions will also be broadcast via tools such as Ustream. Finally, similar sessions called NECC Unplugged will be taking place in the Blogger's Café during the actual conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

In addition to all this, people will be blogging, posting pictures, and twittering away about conference happenings. You can find this stuff by searching various sources using tags (keyword labels) such as NECC, NECC2009, and NECC09. For instance, search Twitter using #NECC and you'll find a steady microblogging stream. I recommend searching Technorati for blog posts and Flickr for photos in a similar manner.

Finally, I like to make the most of any travel experience by doing a little research ahead of time. I usually do a cursory search in iTunes for content related to my destination that I can put on my iPod or iPhone. For instance, I purchased the audiobook of A Cricket in Times Square for my daughter when we traveled to New York City prior to NECC 2005. In 2006, I traveled to Europe with other Apple Distinguished Educators on a project and I brought along a Passport to Europe episode on Berlin and a No Reservations episode on Paris (this show isn't necessarily for kids, by the way). In addition to these items, there are tons of free podcasts available in iTunes if you do a search for your particular destination.

I've taken the liberty of putting together a few Washington DC related resources. I have not reviewed all of these; I just explored and plucked ones that look potentially interesting. If you have any additional recommendations, please add them to the comments. Enjoy and see you in DC. I'll be in the Google booth from time to time and presenting as part of Larry Anderson's Podcasting and Podcatching for the Absolute Beginner panel. Stop by and say hello!

Washington DC and NECC Resources

Lucy's NECC Calendar - Each year, I use the NECC conference planner to plot any sessions interesting to me. I'm focusing on math, science and interactive whiteboards this year.

Lucy's NECC '09 Map - Join this Google Map and add your info and recommendations.

NECC Ning - NECC's online community; attendees and virtual attendees are welcome to join.

GovFresh - one stop shopping for multimedia produced by the U.S. governent. Everything is aggregated in one place; web 2.0 at its finest!

Apps for your iPhone:

Podcasts:

TV Shows and Movies: YouTube Channels:

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 01:02 PM in Conferences, Google, Google Certified Teachers, Infinite Thinking Machine, NECC, NECC2009 | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 06, 2009 at 07:48 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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