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Wesley's Notes from NECC 2003 - June/July in Seattle, WA

• Mae Jamison - "Educating All Students to be Stewards of the Earth We Share"
• John Couch: Delivering Measurable Achievement (Apple VP for Education presentation)
• Discourse Software by ETS
• Ian Jukes: "Learning in the New Digital Landscape"
• Elliot Soloway: The Effects of Handheld Computers on Teaching and Learning
• Give Every Maine Seventh Grader an iBook? Are You Serious?
• David Warlick: "The Art of Being Digital: Learning and Literacy in the 21st Century"

"Supporting Distance Learning at Texas Tech: Our Story" (My presentation handout and referenced links)

Other Comments / Observations / Notes / Links:

• Flying Apollo 13 in 1970, 1/10th of a Meg of memory was in the computer running the Apollo command module computer!
• Apple Stuff
  • "If You Give a Kid an iBook" from ALI
  • Sample of kids doing alphabet book using their bodies to make the letters
  • Start small, do something in your classroom that helps you work better, not harder
  • Veteran Interviews, History Comes Alive, The Soldier train, Rex talking about passing fried chicken through the windows of the train from caring citizens in Newton, KS
  • Logic Audio software for education is $99, platinum version is >$1000, artists like Peter Gabriel and Herbie Hancock use it, need any MIDI keyboard, can use $399 audio input box for input/output (USB powered)
• Scholastic
  • Scholastic Reading Initiative looks like STAR test but it also matches kids to books to read - www.scholastic.com/sri and ReAch (Read Achieve) www.scholastic.com/ireach
  • tracks student progress, also have a Scholastic Management Suite (like AR testing) - 30 question bank, students by default get 10 at a time, questions are recycled (I don't think AR does this)
• GPS/GIS in the 6th Grade classroom - www.members.shaw.ca/bonefro/gps
• Saw a wonderful presentation on iMovie in the Kindergarten classroom: teacher used iPhoto and iMovie to take digital photos and movies throughout the year of activities, used iDVD to make an end-of-year DVD for all students in the class
• University of Missouri
  • ePortfolio guru: Kellye Crockett (crockettk@missouri.edu)
  • ShowMe The World Project: Telecomputing / sychronous videoconferencing with students in Singaport - http://showme.coe.missouri.edu

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