VanishingPoint

The Illinois Educators Technology Conference (IETC) is coming soon.  I look forward to meeting some of you there.  I will be giving three presentations this year that I hope you will find interesting and attend:

Student Engagement in the Digital Age

Resources to Know and Love

Using Digital Notebooks for Research, Clarity, and Organization

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http://allthingsliteracy.com 
Live Blogged: Please pardon the incomplete thoughts, omissions, and or errors.
Kelly Doubek  and Anna Beard
How to evaluate software or tools by breaking them down to along literacy goals.
Reading to learn: Reading and writing across content area
Project CRISS, PowerUP, etc
What are your District’s current reading Initiatives? How is technology supporting reading initiatives?

Data Tools
Online Assessments
Student Practice and [...]

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I hope that everyone had a great day today.  It was nice to be back in the hunt for knowledge at the ICE Conference again.  For me today was an Administrator Academy on Collaboration and Networking Resources.  Overall, the session was not bad but it had great potential to move the conversations well beyond what [...]

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Update: Still working with SlideShare to get my presentation up there in a fashion that I like.  So., if the SlideShare below seems broken that is why.  I have begun putting ALL of the resources, and research links on my wiki at vanishingpoint.wiki.zoho.com so please feel free to review the material there. I will be [...]

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Start planning your conference sessions now! The best Part is that if you miss them… they will be available online… as they are all online Wait, you have not heard of the K12 Online Conference?
 The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from all educators from around the world who are interested in innovative ways Web [...]

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Announcing the second annual “K12 Online” conference for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week [...]

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I am sitting in Lewis’ Graduate Conference watching and participating in a number of sessions on everything from student performance, virtues of teachers, and school code revisions due to tragic disasters. while all are brief (yet powerful) presentations, only the first session made the connection to student learners. Now to be fair these sessions are [...]

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I am sitting in a web 2.0 presentation given By Tim Wilson. The presentation covered basic web 2.0 applications with some touches on how to integrate into a classroom. The content was presented well and with strong immersion of humor. The most impact for/ part of the presentation was Tim’s section on Challenges to implementing web [...]

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Chris Brown and Keith Mann ran through a host of host and I mean a plethora of open source web based applications that are free or almost free!
The most interesting point to the presentation was the focus on direct application to History, Science, Math, and English and how these apps could be used to impact [...]

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I am currently sitting in Wes Fryer’s session amazing session on Podcasting. While the session is on the topic of podcasting, Wes is really teaching about engaged learning and collaboration. Awesome!
The idea of bringing engaged learning and true authentic assessment to classrooms through podcasting is truly enriching. The audience is enthralled with Wes. Everyone is [...]

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