ISTE Leadership Symposium

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Yesterday I had the chance to attend the ISTE Leadership Symposium. Lots of mucky mucks from DOE, RTechs, Higher Ed, Corporate types, school administrators, and even a few teachers.

...the symposium will encourage participants to establish a shared vision and overcome the barriers to ensure success in achieving global educational goals.

Helped them put some of the work product from the day up on a blog. http://necc.edweblogs.org/leadership.

Now I'm off to the convention center. Wireless all around , so should be able to post some sessions here and also on the weblog we have developed for the conference. Will Richardson will be posting to that site also. Should see him later today and of course at the Edublogger meeting.

Jon Udell Explains the RSS world...

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Jon Udell: My conversation with Mr. Safe

Like I said, this is simple stuff, and now there are lots of tools. One guy, to make a point about simplicity, wrote a blogging tool in 30 lines of Perl. So it's not about the format, and it's not about the tools. It's about a new way of communicating, one that's defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before.

Jon Udell explains RSS and some of the political debates about the format. I think the quote above is what resonates with me. Has since I first started publishing on the web from Buckman 9 years ago. It is the power to share the work of myself, and my students, with others. To make connections with people. It's about telling our story... The web and more specifically, weblogging tools, make this process open to just about anyone. As Jon states in his piece, that is what excites people about weblogs…

Edublogger Gathering at NECC

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Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Edublogger Gathering at NECC Just a reminder about the Edublogger Gathering at NECC. While I've seen a few posts refer to this as an Intel event, I want to clarify that this is an event for folks interested in weblogs in educations. While Intel and Clarity-Innovations have provided funds for the event to take place, they both are doing so to facilitate discussion and dialog. It is not a vendor event. We were just lucky enough to have them help with expenses. If anyone has any questions about the event, please feel free to contact me.

Georgia State University Preservice Teachers Using Weblogs

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Anne Davis points to a great quote by one of her students about the possibilites she sees for the use of weblogs in the classroom.
I particualarry like her comment about PowerPoint...! :-)

I am so excited about learning about blogs and how to use them in my classroom, particularly as I was not very familiar with them before now. Everything we discussed in class today seems universally applicable to most classroom situations. This is very refreshing because most people just say to use PowerPoint to meet county mandates about incorporating technology into the curriculum. As we have already established, I hate PowerPoint. I can't wait to apply ideas such as publishing students' work, communicating with parents, and communicating with other classes by using blogs into my own classroom. This is all very intriguing and I want to learn more.

Hydra...

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Hydra

Wouldn't it be great to edit the same document, live, in realtime, together with everyone in your group?

This collaborative note taking application was used extensively at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference. It can take advantage of Zero Configuration networking so even without an IP connection, participants can collaborate on note taking. I'll have a copy running on my laptop. If you are at NECC, and use Mac OS X, download a copy and see if you see me. We can trade notes... :-)

necc.edweblogs.org

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NECC 2003 - EdWeblogs.org I've been working on a collaborative weblog for use during the National Education Computing Conference taking place in Seattle next week. In addition to the weblog, there will also be a edublogger gathering. taking place Monday, June 30. Intel and Clarity Innovations have graciously provided funds to pay for a meeting room and for an internet connection to the room. I'm hoping for an environment similar to what I witnessed at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference that took place in April. People coming together, learning from each other, and sharing the good work they are doing.

As Will Richardson mentioned today, the great thing about events such as NECC is that you have an opportunity to connect with people who you admire and to learn from them. That is what I am anticipating to take place Monday night and throughout the conference. If you are in Seattle on Monday, be sure to look us up.