Across the last week, more than 18,000 educators, administrators and technologist from more than 61 countries flocked to Washington, DC to attend ISTE’s NECC (National Education Computing Conference) 2009. After four days (June 26th – July 1st) packed from morning to night with education technology insights, it is my sad duty to report that NECC [...]
NECC 2009 (the last NECC, since next year it will be ISTE 2010) was a fantastic conference for many reasons. For me, as in the past, the opportunities to have conversations with other educators striving to find new ways to engage students, connect professionally with peers, and utilize cutting edge digital tools to expand the [...]
We conduct a final closing interview with Civil War Sallie about her NECC 2009 experience.
ISTE CEO Don Knezek announces “League of Scientist” educational video game in collaberation with Tabula Digita.
We were live at the ‘Wired Administrators Engage Teachers: Improving Learning and Teaching’ session with Eric Soskil and Troy Todd.
If you miss out on our live-stream of the events happening at NECC 2009 you can still access everything that we present. Just go here to view all of our archived live feeds. We have separated our live-streams into easy to identify posts so that you can view them after they have happened.
If you haven’t heard about Google Wave, prepare to be blown away. I made the mistake of starting this movie at 10:30 last night thinking I’d probably just watch a few minutes and drift off to sleep. Little did I know I would be glued to my screen for the next 80 mins while I took [...]
THE WINNERS OF THE NECC 2009 PRESS PASSES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED!
In order to stimulate your minds and provide a concrete incentive to participate, ISTEconnects is offering 3 NECC 2009 press passes to the most engaging guest bloggers (sign-up to guest blog here). The authors of the 3 most popular posts will receive a press pass [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009 from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (ET)
Rocket Bar DC – 714 7th St. NW Washington, DC
It’s time to meet your fellow tweeps at the #NECC09 Tweet-up in Washington DC! If you haven’t been to a tweet-up before it’s really simple – just show up, grab a drink, meet your friends and makes [...]
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