@raventech used to teach there, so these photos are mainly for him!
I go to a lot of conferences so I absolutely loved this idea of how to reuse those lanyards you receive. What a great idea. Turn them into kids shoelaces! Genius.
Wow, cool video on the real time web and Twitter. Saw this on the 140 Characters Conference live stream.
Agenda
K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
“Overcoming Barriers, Boundaries and Bad News”
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
October 1-2, 2010
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Atlanta, GADay 1: Friday, October 1, 2010
All Day GHC Conference Registration All Day Attend GHC Sessions & Attend Lunches 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ignite Talks – Ignite Talks are short presentations given by various presenters working on outreach to various communities interested in collaboration. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Town Hall Meeting: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Capacity: Engaging Stakeholders to Address Equity in K12 Computing 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Sponsor Night – This is a networking event to celebrate the conclusion of the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration. The event features dinner, music and entertainment. Day 2: Saturday, October 2, 2010
8:00 am – 9:00 am Workshop Registration & Networking Breakfast 9:00 am – 10:00 am Welcome & Keynote (TBA) 10:00 am – 10:15 am Break 10:15 am – 11:00 am Breakout Sessions I
Social Networking (TBA)Dot Diva: Changing the Image of Computing: Julie Benyo
An Update on the New AP CS Course: Chris Stephenson and Jan Cuny
An interdisciplinary Approach to Introducing Computing in Grades K-5: Kathleen Larson, Sarah Pennachio, Donna Russo
11:00 am – 11:15 am Break 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Breakout Sessions II (TBA)
Open Source: It’s All Out in the Open…But Where Do We Start: Anita Verno, Bill Madden, Leslie HawthornTeaching Programming is Easy with Alice: Steve Cooper
Teaching Computer Science with Toys: Robb Cutler
Modeling & Simulations: Betsy Frederick, Irene Lee
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Panel: Teacher Leadership & Advocacy as a Tool for Broadening Participation: Stephanie Hoeppner, Eugene Lemon, Daniel Moix 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Wrap-up 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Networking & Sponsor Activities
via gracehopper.org
This looks like a great program hosted by the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Get involved, people!
via publishspi.org
The Student Press Initiative is a wonderful-looking program which trains teachers on best practices for getting students to publish their work publicly. This looks like a perfect opportunity for any teachers that work with students on writing. How does publishing to the public change the way we write? Can it make it more real for students? Can they connect to a wider audience than their teacher? I would say yes to all of these points.
Please share this program with your teachers. It will take place on July 12-15 in New York City, at Teachers College, Columbia University (my alma mater!).
via thatcamp.org
THATCamp is a humanities and technology "unconference" at George Mason University near Washington, DC. It seems like a great opportunity to involve history and English teachers in. The applications, however, are due today, March 15, 2010. Even if you can't make this year's conference, keep it on your calendar for next year.
On a side note, have any of you attended before? Do you recommend it?
via flickr.com
I've been shooting a bit here at the conference, not as much as I might have liked. I could use some help tagging. I love tagging. Just got to a photo, and add some tags at the right. Remember if you want to put multiple words in a tag, to put them in quotes like this, "NCAIS Innovate Conference"
Let's crowdsource, people!
TEDxNYED used more than $100,000 of equipment (most of which we rented for ~$9,000) to record/broadcast live in HD. We are currently editing the videos which will be placed on TEDx's YouTube channel. @mjmontagne asked me via Twitter if we would share our AV setup, so I fired up Inspiration and made a quick visual. If you have questions, feel free to ask.
p.s. don't you love the cheesy clipart? I was clearly feeling inspired :)
Yesterday was the TEDxNYED conference. It was an incredible day filled with brilliant educators and equally brilliant speakers. We broadcast it live over the Internet and Livestream (our sponsor) reported to me today that we had over 20,000 views. I can barely comprehend that. Today, while I'm still fresh with memories, I want to try and reflect and deconstruct my experiences yesterday, and my experiences with TEDxNYED overall. In particular I hope to go back to my own tweets, go back some of the 2,871 tweets posted about #tedxnyed yesterday, to the Flickr stream, and to the blogosphere discussing TEDxNYED.
Some of my main goals for the reflection include:
- pulling out things that were really meaningful from the talks
- summarizing if and how TEDxNYED had a diversity problem (in the speaker set)
- lessons learned from organizing TEDxNYED
All this, after a perfect whole wheat everything bagel from Bergen Bagels, the best bagles in the world.
(the cool name badges created by Stacy Mar)
(binary apples designed by Lisa Chun)
(@ginab, CEO of Ning.com)
(@jlamontagne, our emcee, and TED fellow)
(@gsiemens, of Connectivism)