Archive for category Ed Tech

Educational Change: Right Here, Right Now?

Right Here, Right Now: Twitter is revolutionizing education worldwide.
Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history
I sat in my eighth grade History class listening to Jesus Jones’ “Right Here, Right Now” blasting out of the teacher’s boombox. It was [...]

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Spreading “uPD” via #edchat… an Idea!

First of all, what the heck am I talking about? uPD? I’ve been using this term for a few months now when I refer to “unofficial Professional Development”. In other words professional development that I won’t get any compensation or credit for, but something that will help me. #edchat is [...]

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MathFest, anyone?

This summer has been a summer full of trying new things, so when I got invited to “MathFest 2009” in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago I excitedly said yes. I was invited by my younger sister Bronlyn, a second-year math professor at Utica College.  She had a hotel booked for a week – all [...]

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Proud to be… a Beltoid

What the heck is a Beltoid? …and what does it have to do with Educational Technology?
The year was 1999 and I was a junior in the Technology Education program at SUNY Oswego. I was in my second semester at that college and was one of the last students to register for classes. [...]

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Leadership Day 2009

The 8 things that I will do as an administrator to encourage and promote educational technology in my school:

I was a NECC Newbie

I really wanted to start my fresh new WordPress blog off with some mind-blowing stuff from my time at the NECC conference this year, but my mind is still going in so many directions I decided to choose one and go with it.
I was a NECC newbie this year – even more so than the [...]