The pre-conference activities of EduCon 2.0 began Friday afternoon. It started with a tour of SLA, our hosts for this event. I was unable to attend as my flight was canceled and had to get another later in the day. I was able to catch up with everyone one at the Franklin Institute for the opening reception and IMAX movie. I met up with my roommate Lisa Durff (Edith Halderman –SL) whom I never met face to face to, I…
EduCon 2.0 is almost here. I am excited about this conference. I am looking forward to meeting people I only know on line face-to-face, the sessions, and watching the format of the conference unfold. Unlike any other conference I have attended I have been able to watch this one develop and grow. I and may others have followed the planning process on the wiki, blog posts and twitter. During the call for conversations people discussed what they would like to…
Note: I originally wrote this over the Christmas vacation and lost it. So I am trying to recreate it from my notes. Not quite as good as the original. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a wonderful time for multiple generations to sit around the table and share stories about the good old days. Around our table the conversations usually lean towards education and science. My parents were in high school during the mid 1940’s and we were talking about…
Out in my neck of the woods students have different options for attending high school. So my daughter and I have been visiting high schools and attending open houses. As I sit in the audience as a parent I tend to focus on different things then I would as a educator. But the questions put forward by parents at a recent open house really caught my ear as an educator, particularly as a tech educator. What type of technology do…
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I do not know about you but I come home from school now physically and mentally exhausted. I just have enough energy to hug my kids, feed them take out, and hit the hay. I know in a couple of weeks it becomes the usual busy. In three days I have not accomplished 1 thing on my ‘to do’ list. I have just been reacting to other peoples needs and wants. It seems many have forgotten the niceties of hello,…
Tim Stahmer of Assorted Stuff has written about an educational consultant. This consultant recommends that we need to recruit teachers from the top college graduates (Duh!). One of the countries he mentions that does this is South Korea. I used to live and work in Seoul. There are many ways to recruit top candidates, better pay, professional development opportunities, and prestige. The latter is a tough one. In Korea being a teacher is a highly respected profession, parents actually hope…