Category: General

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 Papert and LOGO, this presentation is for you.

Since this video will likely go away soon, you might also explore a web site that attempt to promote some of the same ideas – Squeakland.Org.

Recommended site – Adobe Digital Kids Club. Learning and apply the skills of digital photography.

50 Ideas for using a digital camera in an elementary school.

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I collect lots of interesting web sites when I attend conferences. Some end up in our database and others I link from web pages.
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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 History Project is archiving oral histories provided by WWII vets. (I am focusing on history resources)

My favorite paper of the day – Karen Grove’s presentation on the role of cooperating teachers in mentoring teacher candidates. Great reference list if this happens to be your area of interest.

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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, The idea is familiarize educators with the potential of the handhelds.

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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. I do have a cool view from my window.

Maybe I will try to find a cup of coffee. Tomorrow is a new day.

Some NECC 2003 sessions will be webcast.

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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 my own benefit as for anyone else. I do appreciate the visits from those of you who were curious and especially those of you who bothered to come back.

The original post – a goals statement:

iv. to teach them this techne, should they desire to learn [it], without fee and written covenant, and to give a share both of rules and of lectures, and of all the rest of learning, to my sons and to the [sons]of him who has taught me and to the pupils who have both make a written contract and sworn by a medical convention but by no other. (from the Hippocratic oath – translated).
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/oath.htm

It is not time for NECC 2003. My next posts will originate from Seattle.

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