Skip to content

Tag Archives: necc03

WebQuest Portal

Bernie Dodge presented about WebQuests at NECC. For the next few months you can view this session online.
This session was interesting to me for two reasons. First, it is always interesting to understand how someone associated with a process or product understands his/her own vision. When you are acquainted with ideas indirectly, you may [...]

Posted 17 July 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Last Day

Blogging NECC has caught on. I see that an organized group of contributors is creating NECC blogs so a link from here is warranted.
I have noticed there is not a lot of support here for “No Child Left Behind.” Perhaps this is a function of the sessions I select. I listed to Ferdi Serim this [...]

Posted 02 July 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Alan Kay Keynote

I like presenters who offer both big ideas and specific examples. If you have the time, connect to the archived video of Alan Kay’s keynote. You will have to wait a bit to view the archived version, but in a week or so try Minds TV. If you once were excited by the ideas of [...]

Posted 01 July 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Web Sites

I collect lots of interesting web sites when I attend conferences. Some end up in our database and others I link from web pages.
n
nAn exaple - Geek is Chic is a site focused on encouraging gender equity in experiences with technology.
Family Treasures is a site promoting a project based learning approach to learning history.
MINDS Oral [...]

Posted 30 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

NECC - Day 1

This was the first day of NECC - mostly seminars.

I did experiment with one new thing., Various NECC documents are available for beaming to your Palm. You approach one these devices.

Your Palm locks on and downloads both programs and documents. Now I can use my Palm to decide what I want to do tomorrow, [...]

Posted 29 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

It takes a long time to get from Grand Forks to Seattle. Go east to Minneapolis. Go west to Billings. Wait while plane tries to find Billings. Fly to Seattle. Even with a couple of time changes and leaving before 7 I did not arrive in time to take the shuttle to the convention center. [...]

Posted 28 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

NECC 2003

This is an anniversary of a sort. I started this blog as a short term demonstration based on NECC 2002 (note first entries). The idea was to chronicle some of the things I saw and learned at the conference. I later decided to continue keeping an online account of resources and ideas as much for [...]

Posted 25 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: