Rock Stars

I’m still amazed at the EdTech celebrities that I keep running into. Many of these are people I feel I know because I’ve read their blogs and heard their podcasts and seen their Twitter posts. Here, we have Maria Knee, Cheryl Oakes, Angela Meiers, Karl Fisch, Will Richardson,  Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Kathy Cassidy, Lisa Parisi, and [...]

Posted on June 30th, 2009 by John Schinker
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A New Perspective on Keynotes

Today, I learned that the ballroom is not necessarily the best place to see a keynote. If you’re in, say, the bloggers’ cafe, you see the keynote, you can talk during the boring parts, and interact with others in real time during the talk. Sure, you can do (some) of those things in the ballroom, [...]

Posted on June 28th, 2009 by John Schinker
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Pre-NECC Thoughts

In 2005, I attended the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Philadelphia. I had wanted to go for years, but it took a long time for the stars to align to get me there. I was impressed and overwhelmed. After attending our state educational technology conference each year, I thought I had a pretty good [...]

Posted on June 26th, 2009 by John Schinker
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Print is Dead

I used to sign up for free magazines. There were a lot of them — Technology & Learning,  Network World, Presentations, Electronic School, Computerworld. When I was teaching, I’d encourage my students to sign up for them too. I was never at a loss for something to read, and they did a great job of [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by John Schinker
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The Whole Me

As a graduate student, I was required to take a course called “Foundations of Modern Education.” It was probably the most demanding of the courses I took for that degree. One of the major themes of this course was the erosion of community, especially in America. Prior to the 1950′s, Americans lived in neighborhoods. They [...]

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by John Schinker
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