VanishingPoint

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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Well it didn’t take long for the conference to experience a really unfortunately difficult presentation.  The biggest disappointment was that the room was llllooooaadddeedddddd!  There was not even standing room left… in the beginning… I have never seen a presentation by this particular presenter before, and giving the benefit of the doubt, everything her presentation was [...]

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