TCEA 2007
Hidden in tiny conference room 13B, Gary Stager challenged the “quick and easy” notion that was prevalent throughout TCEA. Many vendors and sessions this year focus on using technology in a way that simply adds a tech gadget to the same pedagogy to minimize the technology. Many speakers will say “Technology does not matter”. [...]

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If you have never been to TCEA, it is the second largest educational technology conference in the nation and it is quite overwhelming. The program is 120 pages with sessions of many different lengths and it is represented in a confusing format.
This year there were several nationally known speakers that were not highlighted in any [...]

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I got to hear David Warlick Tuesday afternoon at the TCEA conference. He had a great message about how we define literacy now as information is being created in exponential amounts.

The keypoints that I take away from this session are the big shift in what it means to be literate.

Reading moves from merely reading text [...]

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TCEA 2007~ Connie Swiderski

Free Tool Megalist by Connie
I chose to come to this session to learn about more free tools. We use Moodle for collaboration in our JAZZ training, but had a challenge last year with our small groups that were meeting completely in the Moodle chat and had a terrible time collaborating and we [...]

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