I’m really glad I was able to get into Arturo Guajardo’s Teaching English Language Learners…is there an app for that? BYOL session. He’s opening with a YouTube video – Funny Surfer Dude – which illustrates his point that ALL students are AELLs – Academic English Language Learners. Big Ideas Teachers of ELLs should use tech [...]

Rushton Hurley – such a fun, outstanding presenter – one of California’s best – is starting Matching Teachers and Technology: Good Ideas, Common Mistakes by sharing Shorewood High School’s Lip Dub reverse order video. How   cool is that to involve a whole school in project?!  (And here’s a link to show how they put [...]

One of my all-time favorite conference speakers is Alan November, so I’m sitting in a huge ballroom right now, with hundreds of other educators, waiting to learn from his Empathy: The 21st Century Skill spotlight session. Key Points: Question: Where is that sense of urgency in American classrooms to connect children via the Internet? And [...]

I arrived at the Denver Convention Center too late for the Monday morning ISTE NECC 2010 sessions, due to a delayed flight out of NYC.  But the afternoon sessions made up for missing Will Richardson’s and David Warlick’s morning sessions. BYOL Session: Free and Easy Bibliography: Scaffolding Student Research with Zotero – Having heard NWP [...]

Just started looking through the newly released Common Core State Standards. I like the fact that technology is integrated through writing – across the curriculum, rather than as a separate subject. So what’s the downside of Common Core State Standards? I’ve read through Ben Boychuk’s  special to the Sac Bee and can see that: The [...]