Conference - Day 2

Wednesday, April 2

After quick breakfast, Chris O'neal started his sesion focusing on web 2.0. An opportunity for teachers to enhance the classroom and for the students to add meaningful technology experiences to their entire education process. Chirs shared some great resources on Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Netvibes, and shared collaborative opportunites to learn using Google Docs. He also shared about the ISTE NETS - 2.0 focusing on:

• Creativity and innovation
• Communication and collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical thinking, Problem Solving & decision-making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts

After the tea break, Chris Moderated the next session on developing School Leadership for using Technology. He looked at the policies, while Dr. Lynn Nolan Presented the national perspectives, and I brought in the school and administration perspective.

After lunch I moderated a Panel on Onto-One Computing. Half way through the presentation someone asked, "what is 1:1 ?". Sometimes we take it for granted and assume everyone is on the same page as we are. This conference brings people from a very broad spectrum. My co-presenters were Julie Lindsay, Head of Information Techology & E-Learning, Qatar Academy and Dr. Betsy Lowry, Director of Online Learning & distance Education, Johns Hopkins University. I started the conversation by posing the question: " How long before every student has a lpatop in your school?" and shared our vision for 1:1. Julie shared some great resources along with a presentation of one of her students with Acsus eeePC. (palce video Here)

I also passed around the eeePC I brought over, along with one of our XO laptops. Most had not seen either one. Betsy shared her expereince with 1:1 in Talbot County in Maryland. It was impressive.