Miscellaneous, Travel
Sign in a store Downtown Disney… I’m not sure that’s what I thought a "bath bomb" was.
Travel
After a long day of conferencing at FETC, the crew decided to try the Rainforest Cafe at Downtown Disney. Miraculously, we didn’t have to wait at all for a table for nine of us. I decided that this is not a place for those with ADD. Every thirty minutes the lights dim, there is a … Read More “Disney Downtown” »
EdTech, Travel
The third concurrent session with David Warlick was the one I had been looking forward to for today’s sessions. His session was entitled "Harnessing the New Shape of Information." With a title like that, I figured it HAD to draw upon David Weinberger’s concepts. Weinberger’s keynote at NECC focused on the more theoretical aspects of … Read More “FETC – Day 1, Part 2” »
EdTech, Travel
So far I’ve been fairly impressed with all most of the sessions I attended. I got up early for the Eye-Opener session with Willard Daggart, which proved to be the least interested. Daggart’s presentation was full of bombast, and seemed bent on shock value, and I seriously doubted some of the numbers and statistics he … Read More “FETC – Day 1, part 1” »
EdTech, Travel
At NECC I commented on the vendor leeches – those that swoop in for the free goodies. This observation is about the FETC sessions themselves. I really like how technology has changed the face of conference session attendance. Back in my elementary teaching days, I attended a regional science conference in Charlotte. It was a … Read More “Snatch and Grab Sessions” »
EdTech, Travel
Man, there is some stiff competition at this conference. I thought my iPod, Palm with keyboard, Nikon S1 and duel phone combination would score beauceau points. Even with the goatee, I was outclassed by ponytails and black attire. Of course, the main problem with my gear is that it’s not the smallest, nor is it … Read More “Geekier Than Thou” »
EdTech, Travel
Traveling is tiring. Traveling with a large group can be even more daunting. Today I took eight of our school tech coordinators to the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC). The flight to Orlando was uneventful, and our hotel let us check in early. Lunch was leisurely, then we spent most of the rest of the … Read More “FETC 06 – Getting There” »
EdTech
It’s Tuesday, which means we had our regular principal/district staff meeting. It was full of the typical administrivia that tends to put me to sleep, until I heard the following phrase uttered… Could you send that to us in electronic form? This came from one of our least-technically inclined principals. It also occurred to me … Read More “Progress” »
Miscellaneous
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself At the earliest ending of winter,In March, a scrawny cry from outsideSeemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it,A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,In the early March wind. The sun was rising at six,No longer a battered panache above … Read More “At the earliest ending of winter” »
Rants
First, a bit of trivia about South Carolina Politics. Anyone can vote in the primaries. For example, you don’t have to be a registered Republican to vote in the Republican primaries, and likewise for the Democrat primaries. However, it is one or the other. If you vote in one party’s primary, you cannot vote in … Read More “Push Polls” »