VanishingPoint

I want to thank everyone who attended and stayed for an additional 30 minutes AFTER the conference was actually over to participate in and work with me to get through the way to much information I prepared.  I could have rushed through the six topics, but we got to move through them at a pretty [...]

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Coming out of the IETC Conference in Springfield, IL. I have been doing some thinking about my personal practices and how I use the Microsoft Office suite.  I have to say that I LOVE Office 2007.  There are some truly amazing things that you can do so easily in 2007 some of which cannot even [...]

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Wow… I have to say I felt that this was a stunning session :0) (Even if I do say so myself as I was presenting).  I want to thank everyone who attended and participated.  I hope that each f you took something away from the session.  Now that said remember this was a DISCUSSION session, [...]

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Digital Notebooks for Research, Clarity, and OrganizationFirst off, I would like to thanks everyone who took the time to attend my session… It is always heartening as a presenter when you have folks who arrive for the first session of a conference (especially in late November). Additionally, Iwould like to apologize again for the technical [...]

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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 [...]

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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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