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 [...]

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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 don’t [...]

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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 [...]

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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. The videos all say to [...]

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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 session with iJustine, Iboughtamac (Brent), [...]

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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 support them. He’s talking about [...]

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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 am today. First session iJustine.tv. [...]

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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.

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