Yesterday I had the chance to attend the ISTE
Leadership Symposium. Lots of mucky mucks from DOE, RTechs, Higher Ed, Corporate types,
school administrators, and even a few teachers.

…the symposium will encourage participants to establish a shared vision
and overcome the barriers to ensure success in achieving global educational
goals.

Helped them put some of the work product from the day up on a blog. http://necc.edweblogs.org/leadership.

Now I’m off to the convention center. Wireless all around , so should be able
to post some sessions here and also on the weblog
we have developed for the conference. Will Richardson will be posting to that
site also. Should see him later today and of course at the Edublogger
meeting.

Last night I went to the Seattle Mariners game at Safeco
Field. Had a great time. It was my first time in Safeco and was very impressed.
A beautiful facility and it was a very nice night for baseball.

NECC 2003 Onsite Am about to head to the train station to catch my train for Seattle. Will see if I can post some images from the train…

Jon Udell: My conversation with Mr. Safe

Like I said, this is simple stuff, and now there are lots of tools. One guy, to make a point about simplicity, wrote a blogging tool in 30 lines of Perl. So it’s not about the format, and it’s not about the tools. It’s about a new way of communicating, one that’s defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before.

Jon Udell explains RSS and some of the political debates about the format. I think the quote above is what resonates with me. Has since I first started publishing on the web from Buckman 9 years ago. It is the power to share the work of myself, and my students, with others. To make connections with people. It’s about telling our story… The web and more specifically, weblogging tools, make this process open to just about anyone. As Jon states in his piece, that is what excites people about weblogs…

Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Edublogger Gathering at NECC Just a reminder about the Edublogger Gathering at NECC. While I’ve seen a few posts refer to this as an Intel event, I want to clarify that this is an event for folks interested in weblogs in educations. While Intel and Clarity-Innovations have provided funds for the event to take place, they both are doing so to facilitate discussion and dialog. It is not a vendor event. We were just lucky enough to have them help with expenses. If anyone has any questions about the event, please feel free to contact me.

Anne Davis points to a great quote by one of her
students about the possibilites she sees for the use of weblogs in the classroom.

I particualarry like her comment about PowerPoint…!

I am so excited about learning about blogs and
how to use them in my classroom, particularly as I was not very familiar with
them before now. Everything we discussed in class today seems universally
applicable to most classroom situations. This is very refreshing because most
people just say to use PowerPoint to meet county mandates about incorporating
technology into the curriculum. As we have already established, I hate PowerPoint.
I can’t wait to apply ideas such as publishing students’ work, communicating
with parents, and communicating with other classes by using blogs into my
own classroom. This is all very intriguing and I want to learn more.

Hydra

This collaborative note taking application was used extensively at O’Reilly’s
Emerging Technologies Conference. It can take advantage of
Zero Configuration networking so even without an IP connection, participants
can collaborate on note taking. I’ll have a copy running on my laptop. If you
are at NECC, and use Mac OS X, download a copy and see if you see me. We can trade notes…