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Podcasts of many of the sessions at the Building Learning Communities conference have been released! If you couldn’t attend, you should definitely check them out. Heck, even if you did attend, this is your chance to get a second helping.
My personal favorites are Marco Torres’ opening keynote, Andy Hargreaves’ day 2 […]

I got here a little late, but I’m thrilled that Prensky is doing a presentation. If you haven’t heard of him, stop reading and go visit his site.
i’m not sure how he started, but right now he’s giving an overview of the Native/Immigrant theory. Those of us that didn’t grow up with the internet […]

I’ve never seen Joyce Valenza present, but many people have pointed her out to me this trip and said that she was worth seeing.
She lays down some ground rules at the beginning and one of them is that if you’re going to blog about her session, please ‘blog kindly’. So I’ll try to be […]

When he creates projects with his students, they use a system comprised of four P’s: Planning, producing, producing and Pheedback. Each P has a series of steps, and he has podcasts that outline every step of the way, designed by and for TEACHERS.

He introduced the presentation by sharing a video that students […]

Dr. Andy Hargraves is presenting the second keynote, titled Sustainable Learning Communities. Wow, he doesn’t pull any punches. His introduction was essentially a comparrison of the current American educational system versus the direction that the rest of the world is moving in. Every other major country in the world is moving away […]

Before I had to duck out, I caught the first 20 minutes of Jim Wenzloff and Chris Burnett’s presentation, Tales from the Clem. I’ve seen Jim present before and I know Chris well enough, but there’s always something new to learn.
Chris heard Will Richardson speak at BLC04 and after listening to him […]

As I mentioned in the last post, I ran into my usual problem and ran out of battery during the second session of the day. So, I had to resort to paper and pen. Thankfully I don’t work in the ’school of tomorrow’ and still had access to those ancient technologies! So […]

Aaahhh…. This feels good. Sitting in an auditorium, waiting for Marco Torres (the keynote speaker) to begin. Haven’t had the chance to do this for what seems like forever, despite having attended more conferences this year than the rest of my life combined. Ironically, just like always, i’m already stressing about battery […]

I’m kicking off the BLC06 conference over at the MIT Media Lab. After an early start spent fighting traffic caused by collapsing tunnels, we finally made our way over to MIT. The moment you walk through the doors, you know where you are. This place simply reeks of creativity. I won’t […]

Yikes, this is starting to become a habit again! This podcast recaps a few conversations that were scattered around NECC and the DEN National Leadership Conference. I’ve heard from many people that the most valuable part of the last few conferences they’ve attended have been the conversations that have occured with other attendee’s […]

One thing that I really enjoyed about the cruise was having the chance to sit down and chit chat with so many people from around the world in a very casual way. Of course, I wasn’t going to let an opportunity like that pass me by, so after my unwitting victims had a few […]

On the bus right now heading back to the hotel. I’m typing on my PPC so forgive the grammar and terse writing style.
This has been quite a learning adventure, and an international one at that. We just heard about the new bombings in London, and I’m trying to remember who […]

I don’t know what the name of the software is yet, but it definitely sounds interesting. It’s an online tool, Free and Open Source, that provides you with your own URL, 100mb of storage, public and private aspects, blogging, polling, links, chat, discussion, WYSIWYG web page creation, and more. Oh yeah, and it’s […]

Final keynote is Sowing hte Seeds for a more Creative Society by Mitchel Resnick. Started off by asking us to identify which of the three don’t belong: Television, Computers, Paintbrushes. Most people might say paintbrushes, but he’s saying that it should be televisions. People need to be using computers to express themselves […]

Unfortunately, today is the last day of the conference for my little posse. Last night was a great way to sort of cap things off. About 300 of us invaded the Star of Boston dinner cruise ship for an evening of schmoozing, drinking, schmoozing, dancing, and taking digital photos. A lot of […]