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PJ Haarsma & Frank Beddor discuss becoming authors at AETA

Date October 19, 2009

Today at Arizona English Teacher’s Association Frank Beddor, the author of The Looking Glass Wars, and PJ Haarsma, the author of The Softwire Series, are discussing their books in a keynote entitled “Something funny happened on the way to becoming an author”. The two men have been friends from before they became authors and told [...]

Arizona Education Technology Plan

Date May 2, 2009

Session: The New Arizona Education Technology Plan from Cathy Poplin, Deputy Associate Superintendent for Educational Technology, Arizona Department of Education. We’re reviewing the ADE recommendations, “Transforming Education: Enabling Learning for All Arizona Students, The AZ Long-Range Strategic Educational Technology Plan”, for long term tech use in AZ schools. This can be frustrating with schools who [...]

School 1958 v. 2008

Date December 7, 2008

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1958 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2008 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees [...]

Video Chat comes to Gmail: Skype, Watch out!

Date November 13, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Gmail Video Chat, originally uploaded by nooccar. Yesterday I received a message that Gmail now had video and audio chat. I immediately told everyone about it, and I was completely excited. [...]

Why Web 2.0 in education

Date November 2, 2008

PodCampAZ: Panel Discussion

Date November 2, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } podcampaz panel, originally uploaded by nooccar. For some reason my connection keeps dropping, hence the reason I am not Covering It Live. Sorry. Looks like this is gonna be a panel [...]

PodCampAZ: Austin Baker’s Social Media session

Date November 2, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_4767, originally uploaded by nooccar. In Austin Baker’s session about how Social Media can change our lives. He, like me, has a “real job” cause we have kids and need to [...]

PodCampAZ: iJustine.tv session

Date November 2, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_4758, originally uploaded by nooccar. Yesterday my friends all went to an “unconference” called PodCampAZ, but I really didn’t know what this was all about. I’m an idiot. So here I [...]

A Vision of Today’s Students

Date October 23, 2008

Michael Wesch spoke last year at MaricopaTech, and our visions of what “students” means mesh nicely. I, obviously, struggle on a smaller level what he struggles to accomplish on a grander level.