Posted in Blogging, Conferences on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve recently begun listening to some educational video posts on a site called, Ustream.tv
Today while working on a website for one of our art teachers, I listened to Will Richardson give a presentation on using Web 2.0 tools in education. He talked about what it means to teach our students for what lies ahead in [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education on Mar 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today’s keynote is being done by John Almarode on “Brain-Based Learning.” I’ve never live-blogged before, so here goes!
Enrichment–he is talking about how the brain changes with enrichment. Brain cells change, etc. etc.
–Has to be a contrasting purposeful environment. A lot of what we do in classrooms are “maintaining” rather than a contrasting positive purposeful environment. [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »
The Virginia Society for Technology in Education had their annual conference this past week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I was there for most all of it, and it was quite good. I remember my first VSTE Conference: I was blown away by the number of workshops offered, the “hands-on” sessions, [...]
