First-Timer’s First Day

July 1, 2008

I have endured the Monday assault of NECC, including packed sessions, sitting in chairs that are connected to each other, and an exhibit hall that is over “5 football fields” in size. The onslaught of so much marketing hype in a closed space can be overwhelming.

I feel sorta like I did after I was in a car wreck…a bit dazed, a bit sore, and slightly out of sync. (Remember, I work mainly in videoconferencing where we are in our offices with no windows and aren’t around large crowds at a time!)

So my question after looking at all the shiny, new tech is are…where do you start? Do you pick out a technology and then build a student project around it? Do you think about what your student and teacher needs are and then seek to find the right tool to assist with the task?

Now, I am heading out for day 2. We have our session at 2:00 about Curriculum Videoconferencing. My only other agenda today is to find a creative, innovative, original idea. Yesterday, I saw someone claiming that printing PowerPoint slides and making a book with them was innovative…that is not what I had in mind.

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