TECA 2007 presentation by Will Richardson
He presented using a wiki and invited discussions and comments. If you are not subscribed to the Weblogg-ed blog, do it today! I know that some of our districts are blocking all blogs because of MySpace. I encourage districts to allow teachers to use www.bloglines.com as an aggregator to start [...]

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Janine and I met today to plan follow-up and support for “The Coolest Videoconference Training Ever”. We worked to create a spreadsheet of all the participants’ contact information and discussed how to teach our building coordinators how to manage these projects. This will be an amazing opportunity for our students and teachers.
One thing that is [...]

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This afternoon Janine Lim from BCISD in Michigan and I connected for a staff development session for K-2 teachers. We facilitated a connection between three of her schools and three of my schools here in Texas. Read all about The Coolest VC Training Ever…yes, she was BLOGGING while facilitating a training!
What I love about this [...]

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I had a brainstorm last year as I began conducting teacher training for how to use the videoconference units in there schools…I would always connect to a content provider so they could see the technology in action and also learn about the content.
It is a good idea to connect to provides, but if teachers are [...]

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