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2008 National Educational Computing Conference also touts collaboration as a key to 21st-century learning

Anne Collier's collective thoughts on attending her first NECC and her immersive experience in Second Life for education.

These notes were taken on the Technology Policy workshop given by Dr. Larry Anderson at NECC and cite the top issues for which a policy must be developed. Other handouts are available at the NECC site , including a case study. [Scroll down to the bottom of the page].

At NECC, there are way too many places to be at the same time. If you happened to miss some of the sessions, here are the webcasts and video links

Short video of Internet Safety presentation at NECC 2008

Global Run is a community of students and teachers engaged in inter-national service-learning in support of the United Nations' Millennium Development goals. The Global Run pilot project addresses the many challenges teachers have in trying to "fit in" global awareness and character education into standards based curriculum.

Pokemon Learning League partnered with the Virginia Department of Education to educate students with their episode entitled, Internet Safety and You. Content is open to everyone in all 50 states. Quizzes assess student knowledge and there is also an opportunity to apply principles and practices.

Schools collaborating to engage student learners. A cutting edge innovative project that researches what can be done with eduction in virtual worlds. This teen grid collaboration project offers projects in different regions grouped by time zone.

Just as YouTube has changed the way we watch video and Wikipedia has changed the way we find information, Kiva.org - the world's first online person-to-person microlending platform - is changing the way we give back. Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in third world countries, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. There are many great classroom connections here for global citizenship, math, geography etc. Kiva also allows you to develop a social network with other contributors supporting the same entrepreneur.

The NECC Program features a broad spectrum of content focused on the standards, curriculum, best practices, and essential conditions for creating a 21st-Century learning environment for students.

Online social networking site for kids age 7 and younger. Connected with ownership of webkinz plush toy animals. Used in a classroom setting by Maria Knee, kindergarten teacher at Deerfield Community School in Deerfield, New Hampshire, who has been named this year's winner of the Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-Based PK-2 Education. The award is given by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) to recognize PK-2 educators who demonstrate vision and creativity in a project or program that effectively integrates technology in the classroom.

Preparing today's students to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens

Ypulse is a media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, founded in May of 2004 by journalist Anastasia Goodstein. It provides news, commentary and resources about commercial media for teens (teen magazines, websites), entertainment for teens (movies, video games, television, music, books), technology used by teens (cell phones, instant messaging, hardware and software), the news media's desire to attract teens (newspapers, cable news), marketing and advertising (targeting the teen market) and non-profit youth media (highlighting organizations' efforts at promoting youth voices in media and creating media by and for youth). Anastasia is also the author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing on Line.