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NECC 2007 – Sharing

What is it that prompts individuals to share resources they have had to invest a great deal of time and expertise to create? Today, I attended a session on the future of the book. While the general opinion appeared to be that the traditional book can no longer serve as the only source of information, [...]

Roger and HyperStudio Are Back

This is kind of interesting. We happened by the MacKiev booth near the end of the day and stumbled into a presentation by Roger Wagner. Roger was the original developer of HyperStudio. After he sold HyperStudio (the details of why are a little vague), HyperStudio kind of faded. At one point, development ceased. One of [...]

NECC07 – Be the blogger

It appears that blogs are still in. Will Richardson’s session (webblog-ed) was filled to capacity. Presentation originated from a room offering participants the opportunity to use refurbished old computers running a stripped down open source operating system without a harddrive. Folks looking for ways to contain costs and offer more equipment. Blogging about blogging (metablogging) [...]

NECC07 – Participate from afar

NECC (National Education Computing Conference) 2007 begins today. This has been one of the conferences I have attended consistently over the years. It is what I consider a K-12 educational practitioners conference and a great place for me to keep up on issues and practices. It also has possibly the best vendors area of any [...]