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Archive for the ‘Conference’


Your Life with Comic Life Workshop

Check out my session at the Keystone Technology Integrator’s Summit on Comic Life.

Session Description:
Come and learn how to tell your story through comics! Using the program Comic Life ( available for Windows and Mac), participants will learn how to use the software and have the opportunity to create their own comic using all the features of this fantastic application.

Session Link:  http://kti2009.wikispaces.com/Comic_Life

Follow along on the live blog!

What I learned at NECC..

So, I have yet to really decompress and analyze all I learned at NECC, but I was asked to bring back some highlights to my graduate course tonight – Ethical Leadership and the Future. My task was to bring back some things that I gathered that relates to the course content. I thought it best to be short and sweet, so I created this short Google presentation to sum up, in a nutshell, what I got from NECC. Of course I have tons of resources, tools, links, and ideas to go through and organize, but this really is a “bigger picture” of what I took away from NECC. What do you think? Did you take away similar types of things?


Here Comes Learning!

Will Richardson & Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach at NECC

Bricks and Mortar Schools are Detrimental to the Future of Education

Tuesday’s NECC Keynote

All Technology Uses Are Not Equal: Seeking Higher Ground

Hammers and Nails: Building Leadership and Vision for the 21st Century

Malcolm Gladwell Keynote NECC 2009

CFF Apple Out of the Box Training

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At PETE & C – last session for me!

Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire: The Methods and Madness of Room 56

Keynote at PETE & C with Rafe Esquith.

A teacher for life, Rafe Esquith has taught hundreds of children to believe in themselves. Let him inspire you today with his presentation that includes life in and out of the classroom. Rafe includes stories about classroom management, Shakespeare in the classroom, problem solving, history, and rebelling against a system that loves to crush creative people. Discover why Forbes Magazine called him a “modern day Thoreau, who teaches the value of hard work, honest self-reflection, and the courage to go one’s own way.