Category Archives: Conferences
Web Guest to Nipissing’s Infusion Conference
On January 31st, 2009, I had the great opportunity of presenting at Nipissing University’s Pre-Service Teachers’ Infusion Conference. That’s really not newsworthy…except, I was in Sri Lanka and the conference was happening in North Bay, Ontario! Then, to make it … Continue reading
K12 Online Goes to Bed for another Year
The K12 Online Conference is over for another year but its archives and ensuing conversations can continue in perpetuity….That’s the nice thing about this online conference – not only is it free but the files, comment areas and this year … Continue reading
Technology Integrated Learning – the Elusive Tipping Point
Not counting chalk, blackboards, pens, etc. we’ve been sneaking learning technologies into the classroom for well over 25 years. Discouragingly, we have yet to reach the transformational point, where learning becomes a totally different beast, unrecognizable from the classrooms of … Continue reading
Can We Be More Discriminating in our PowerPoint Disdain?
Flip through about 10 slides from each of the following presentations: Exhibit #1: | View | Upload your own Exhibit #2: | View | Upload your own And Exhibit #3: | View | Upload your own Which one of the … Continue reading
K-12 Online Conference 2008 – Call for Proposals
It’s that time of year again, the K-12 Online Conference is starting to ramp up. Last year I was involved on the Help Desk and I enjoyed it so much I am hoping to help again this year. I’m also … Continue reading
K12 Online – Proof it’s a Connected World Out There
The K12 Online Conference is about to kick off it’s ‘official’ schedule after a week of pre-conference activities which started with David Warlick’s Pre-Conference Keynote and I guess you could say the pre-conference week is ending, aptly, with the Virtual … Continue reading
WebHuddle + Skype = Online Hands-On Workshop
On Saturday February 3rd, I presented a workshop for In.tech.gration 2007: Teach & Technology in the 21st Century, offered out of Nipissing University. On the website In.tech.gration 2007 is described as: “a technology in education conference for students enrolled in … Continue reading
To learn is to Multi-task
I usually try to ‘attend’ the CIDER sessions but I missed the December 2nd one “Instructional Design Research“, – I’m sorry I did, because I’d have personal experience with the disruptive loud ‘whispers in class’ coming out of the text … Continue reading
Back from Regina Conference
I’ve just arrived back to Ontario after attending “Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLt ) 2005: Transitions & Transformation“, May 1 – 3, 2005, sponsored by Campus Saskatchewan partners. This was a great conference for me because I was able to … Continue reading