NECC09

The new ISTE NETS FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS have been unveiled here at NECC.

Quest Atlantis is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks from the Center for Research on Learning & Technology at Indiana University. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae.

Educators learned how to use technology to enhance learning experiences beyond the classroom as part of the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington.

National School Boards Association Education Technology Director Ann Flynn talks about balancing the need for technological innovations with the reality of running a school district.

Check out the commercials and curriculum ideas by Jamie McKenzie. Should be part of media literacy curriculum for all students.

Today at the National Educational Computing Conference, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and nGenera Corporation, led by Don Tapscott - chairman of its nGenera Insight thought leadership group and best-selling author of Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital - announced a partnership between their organizations, based on common interests in aligning the power of Web 2.0 with the enterprise needs of school districts and their communities.

Review of: SUP228 Best Practices in Fair Use for 21st-Century Educators\nRenee Hobbs, Temple University, Media Education Lab with Katie Donnelly, Kristin Hokanson, Michael RobbGrieco and Joyce Valenza\nSunday, 6/28/2009, 12:30pm-3:30pm WWCC 145 A

MYHOPE: Hysterical song about MySpace being shown at NECC09. Payback is a wonderful thing! Some key points made here about digital footprints.

Blog site provides links mentioned in the spotlight presentation by Chris Moersch, ED of LoTi Connection. Includes many research studies citations that could be valuable for anyone writing an EETT grant.

Playstation Gaming software from BigBrainz for multiplications being shown at NECC. Base version (without all the special effects) is available for free to teachers

Live blog of the keynote address with Malcolm Gladwell

COSN (The Consortium for School Networking Initiative) has a new Broadband Knowledge Center that highlights the issues of Broadband needs in the Schools.

Sup228 = Workshop wiki for Renee Hobbs, Temple University, Media Education Lab with Kristin Hokanson, Michael RobbGrieco and Joyce Valenza\n

Students using voicethread to discuss math problems.

Twitter stream graph of the conference

Streaming video site for NECC 09. Introducing ISTE's first-ever onsite communications network, the ISTEVision Network! Get daily and nightly news from all over the conference, feature stories, interviews, session and event simulcasts, 2009 video-on-demand sessions, ISTE Webinars, Second Life™ machinima clips, contest winners, and user-uploaded videos from our members and participants.