Day 2, and the Keynote speaker is Deneen Frazier Bowen. Her presentation is apparently called “The Natives Are Restless.” I can only assume at this point that she’ll be talking about the distinction between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants,” but from a slightly different angle. (Otherwise, she wouldn’t be the Keynote.) HA! She’s really doing …
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Waiting for Day 2 of MICCA
It’s the start of day 2 of MICCA, and the students are starting to roll in. That’s right, I said students. Yesterday they handed out some awards to teachers and administrators, but today the pre-keynote award ceremony is for students doing cool things with technology. In all honesty I think today’s awards are much more …
Session 4: Using NASA’s Online Problem-Based Learning Activities
Last session of the day, and believe it or not I’m not attending the one on unitedstreaming. It’s worth seeing, but I experienced the same session at the PETE&C conference a while back. With unitedstreaming out of the picture, it was almost a toss up as to which session I should see, but I finally …
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Session 3: Let’s Make Literacy Accessible for All!
I promised myself this morning that I wouldn’t attend any sessions that mentioned the words “PowerPoint, “Office,” or “Inspiration.” Not because the programs are bad, but because conferences like this are often beyond saturated with sessions that show how to use those programs. I want something more. So now I’m sitting here waiting for this …
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Lunch Musings
The last time I attended this conference was two years ago, and things have changed a lot since then. Most notable is the fact that MICCA is taking up a lot less real estate. Back then they took up three floors, with the sessions on the 2nd floor, administration, registration, souvenirs, etc. on the 1st …
Session 2: The 21st Century Art Room
Woohoo! The next session doesn’t hae any outlets, but it’s about art, education, and technology. This is right up my alley. :) It’s being presented by Aileen Pugliese-Castro, who is forward thinking enough to not have a handout, but rather put things online. She used a company called Original Works to do some fund raising …
Session 1: Making Better Readers with Digital Photography
Sally DeVincentis is a vendor, but she was a Special Education teacher for 25 years. With a background like that she’s got my interest. (This is why I love this WiFi connection. In less than a minute I looked up her business and linked in her website.) The key to this session seems to be …
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Before the 1st session
I’m at what will be my first session of the day: “Making Better Readers with Digital Photography.” Once again I’m in range of a strong WiFi signal, but this time it’s password protected so I’ll have to save this summary for later. As an added bonus I’m even close to a wall outlet! (No more …
MICCA Day 1 Keynote
Today’s Keynote is unusual for me. Rather than having just one person standing in front of a PowerPoint presentation we have several individuals (Linda Roberts, Senator Patrick J. Hogan, Dr. Karen B. Salmon, Jim Potter, and Sterlind S. Burke, Sr.) discussing “21st century skills.” They’re having some microphone problems, but it’s not too bad. Jim …
On my way to MICCA
I’m about to head over to the Baltimore Convention Center or day 1 of MICCA. I’m presenting on blogging, but not until tomorrow. Today I’m just going to see what I can see and blog about it. If they have wireless access I’ll post from there. If not, I’ll post when I get home. UPDATE: …