NECC 09

I had the pleasure of virtually attending the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington D.C. last week, and met many amazing people with amazing ideas about how to best teach our children (and ourselves) using new technology. With breakout sessions like “Develop Deeper Understanding with Digital Primary Sources” and “Classroom Learning Stations: iPods, Palms, Laptops, Nintendo DS, and SMARTBoard” there was something for everyone. Being able to attend the conference without leaving my home was a true treat, and allowed many other people who could not attend to join in the learning about teaching and teaching about learning frenzy!

Using hash tags in Twitter allowed those of us to keep up with all that was going on whether actually attending #necc09 or #notatnecc09 (I was proud of myself for creating the “not at” tag!) If you plugged those tags into Twitterfall, then a world of information literally dropped (and continues to drop) into your hands.

My next few posts will include what I consider to be the highlights of the conference, and I will be including information from north Florida area folks who actually went to the conference!