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OCCUE and the Joy of an Audience
Did a new presentation today “Beyond Cheating” at the Orange County CUE Tech Festival. I was really excited by the openness of the group to challenging assumptions (no one hurt me), and their ideas seemed to jive well with my own.
Here is the Prezi that I use with this workshop.
Tomorrow Is Another Day!
Let me start by wishing all a very happy new year with all the challenges, opportunities, and occasional solutions that make us love ed tech so much.
I am taking a break from my usual curmudgeonly outlook to be optimistic as we broach a new decade (please don’t insist that the new decade starts until 2011…we fought that war in 2000 and the 01’s lost).
Reading the many articles outlining the progress of the past ten years, I see a clear pattern of progress in the classroom and the world in general. In day to day battles with others and myself, it feels like nothing is happening, but looking at an arc of 10 years belies this perception. If nothing else we are asking the questions and challenging assumptions that were sacrosanct not ten years ago.
The world is changing, and time is on our side!
Happy New Year! Time to get moving!
Greetings from TELL ‘09
I was very happy to be asked to speak at the inaugural TELL (Technology, Education, Learning, Leading) Conference in Van Nuys CA. Over 100 educators from all over the Southland have gathered for talks on general topics and specific skills. As well as the live speakers (I am very happy to be a live speaker because I am much better IRL) the conference is offering a moderated webinar track of major speakers.
I have enjoyed my first presentation (Changing Platforms/Changing Paradigms, the foundation talk of this blog) and I am looking forward to the second this afternoon (To Tech as Jesus Did).
Great compliments to Barbara Barreda, principal of St. Elizabeth School, who planned and coordinated the conference and to the rest of the conference staff for running a first-rate conference. I hope that this will become a yearly event!
For those who attended my workshops, many thanks, and I welcome any comments here or sent directly to me.