I spent the day in New Jersey. More specifically, I woke up before 6:30am on a Saturday (!) to head to the inaugural Tri-State Education Technology Conference (#TSETC) hosted by Eric Sheninger (@NMHS_Principal) at New Milford High School and sponsered by Schoology (@schoology). I will be forever grateful to Al Doyle (@aldoyle) for driving and Basil Kolani (@bkolani) for navigating while I complained from the back seat. We were all presenters at TSETC today, Al talked about Game Theory, and Basil and I co-presented on Grassroots Professional Development.
My PLN has grown exponentially over the last couple of years, and it was a pleasure to match a face to an avatar and/or reunite with EdCampPhilly organizers Mary Beth Hertz (@mbteach) and Rich Kiker (@rkiker), Eric Sheninger (@NMHS_Principal), Aaron Bellow (@adambellow), Tom Whitby (@TomWhitby) wearing the same Hawaiian shirt he were to Teacher Town Hall at Education Nation last weekend, Bill Stites (@wstites), fellow EdCampNYC organizers Deven Black (@spedteacher) and Katy Gartside (@nykat4), fellow TEDxNYED organizers Tammy McKenna (@tmck76) and Basil Kolani (@bkolani), NYCIST friend Al Doyle (@adoyle), Pamela Livingston (@plivings), Aaron Eyler (@Aaron_Eyler), Neal Taparia and Darshan Somasheker from EasyBib (@EasyBib), Mark Moran (@FindingDulcinea) from Sweet Search, Jim Lerman (who I worked with 10 years ago at The Dalton School, Dorothy Fox (@dee8906), Meg Wilson (@ipodsibilities) and many others I’m too tired to remember to list right now. While TSETC was not an UNconference, I treated it as such. I ignored the blank papers at four separate stations where people were expected to sign up for sessions. Instead, I popped in and out of rooms, greedily gathering as many useful resources and websites as I could. Here’s a bit of what I learned/shared as I walked around: Grassroots PD by me (@SpecialKRB) and Basil Kolani (@bkolani)- We spoke about our New York Consortium of Independent School Technologists (http://NYCIST.net) and how it’s tag-line is “Knowledge is in the group”
- Building your PLN can happen by following lists like the one Brendan Schneider (@schneiderb) created: http://www.edsocialmedia.com/2010/08/101-people-you-should-follow-on-twitter/
- Following the Twitter hashtags of various chats: #edchat #ntchat #engchat #scichat #spedchat #musedchat and so on…
- EdCamps are popping up all over – I’m helping to organize EdCampNYC on 12/4/10
- TEDx allows you to host an independently organized TED event using their name and format – I’m also on the organizing committee of TEDxNYED on 3/5/11
- Various Nings like the Independent School Educators Network http://isenet.ning.com/
Thinking Outside the Ban: Taking risks to prepare students for success Keynote speech by Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu)
Ten Web 2.0 Tools to Make Your Classroom Rock by Adam Bellow (@adambellow)
Teaching the 10 Steps to Better Web Research by Mark Moran (@findingdulcinea)
Game Design 2010 by Al Doyle (@aldoyle) aldoyle@dwight.edu
- Al’s Game Design Blog he uses with his class: http://gamedesign2010.blogspot.com
- Al’s wiki of Gaming resources: http://gaminginschool.wikispaces.com
- EdTech Now! Blog: http://edtechnow.blogspot.com
Appsolutely Accommodating: Meet the iPad by Meg Wilson (@ipodsibiities)
- Meg totally delivered a great presentation. She demo’d a bunch of awesome Apps that she’s written about on her blog including Proloquo2go, Signs4You, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, and Big Buttons. Her blog highlights all the technology integration projects she’s developed to accommodate all learners.
- Finally, Meg live-blogged TSETC here: http://www.ipodsibilities.com/iPodsibilities/iPodsibilities_Blog/Entries/2010/10/2_Tri-State_Education_Technology_Conference.html
- and here slides are here:
Transforming an Educational Experience with Social Media by Bill Stites (@wstites)
- The session was streamed and saved here: http://www.edsocialmedia.com/2010/10/edsocialmedia-at-tsetc/
- Slides here:
iGlobal Class rojects: Extending learning beyond the classroom by Shelly Terrell (@ShellTerrell) Skyping in from Germany!
Living and Learning with a Classroom set of iPads by Colleen McGuire (@mzmacky)
Clearly I was unable to be everywhere, but I saw these slides posted to Twitter from other presentations too:
Using MobileTechnology for Student Centered Learning by George Engel (@gbengel)
http://blogs.cellularlearning.org/?p=182
Digital Storytelling by Samantha Morra (@sammorra)
Will Online Learning Change Everything? by Cory Plough (@mrplough07)
Finally, I just want to re-share these free lessons incorporating Yolink, Sweet Search, EasyBib, and Creative Commons can be found below. I created the awesomely punny “License to Cull with Creative Commons”: http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/teachers.jsp
Thanks for the mention in the post. I have my slides posted here as well – http://www.slideshare.net/wstites/transforming-an-educational-experience-with…
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Hi, you can find my presentation for #tsetc on cell phone use at http://blogs.cellularlearning.org.
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@wstites @gbengel Thanks so much for adding your #TSETC resources! I updated my post to include them: http://post.ly/11RnG
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