The DEN LC invades BLC

(Please note, this is cross posted on the Wisconsin DEN Blog)
On Thursday of the DEN LC Symposium, we took a break from Bentley University and took a field trip via trolley to downtown Boston.  There, we attended the Building Learning Communities conference, put on by November Learning.  A couple of DEN STARS, Lee Kolbert and Teryl Magee were presenting [...]

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Unconference Conference

Wednesday of the DEN Leadership Council Symposium was scheduled to be an “Unconference.”  A what?  The night before, Steve Dembo asked the attendees to ask for topics of discussion that they thought would be interesting to learning more about.  Steve mentioned that those coming up and suggesting ideas would also be the people who would [...]

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The Excitement is Building

I can’t wait for ISTE.  I’ll be getting into Denver on Friday.  I’m sure for those of you going, you’re excited as well, but what specifically are you excited about?  For me, it’s a number of things.

Getting away.  I look at ISTE as a mini vacation.  I get to escape my current life of hauling [...]

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Wired Wednesday Webinar

Tonight I presented a session on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons for WEMTA’s Wired Wednesday webinar program.  Each month, WEMTA, our state technology organization, offers a free webinar for members.  In fall, I was asked to be one of the speakers and hesitantly accepted.  It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, it was more [...]

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Neat Opportunity

Early this week, I received a rather interesting email.  It started out, “I received your name from our author Angela Maiers who thought you might be interested in helping us.”   I read on to find that the person who contacted me happens to be the president and publisher of Eye on Education, a publisher [...]

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ICE, ICE, Baby! (Part 1)

I was fortunate enough to attend ICE last week.  I had never attended before, but heard a lot of about it from several members (Anne, Lori, and Smeech) of my PLN.  The drive was about two hours and I was able to work out one day of attendance, but due to some family conflicts, I [...]

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What is tech PD like for you?

I’ve been thinking about Professional Development lately, specifically, PD in the use of technology.  Perhaps it’s the buzz around EduCon, ICE, and WEMTA.  Perhaps it’s because I spent last weekend working with other Discovery Educators on Leadership Councils from a few states planning out some events for 2010.  Regardless, these thoughts have brought me back [...]

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Drinking the Google Koolaid

I like Google. Let me repeat that – I like Google. I use GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and a number of other Google products, but the recent Google Teacher Academy (GTA) in Washington D.C. has me thinking. By no means am I trying to bash Google. I just want to [...]

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