Saturday, July 3rd, 2004
I've continued reading up on GIS and its potential educational uses. I've called around to all of the cities that the Hopkins School District serves and even Hennepin County to ask about getting access to their GIS data. All of the people I talked to seemed intrigued that the idea ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
I got together with Pete Misner Wednesday afternoon at Starbucks and talked about Moodle for a while. Pete gave a workshop earlier in the week where he demonstrated and taught the participants how to use Moodle and manage courses. Once again, it was great to be able to meet someone ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
I've been interested in portfolio assessment for a while so this session was a natural for me. The presenter, Brian McLaughlin, is a teacher who has been using digital portfolios with his students. He gave some background about digital portfolios, talked about why to use them, and listed some key ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2004
The flight was on time, uneventful, and I arrived for my first workshop session with five minutes to spare. Not bad.
The first session was called CARET: Research-based Decision Making for Educational Technology and was presented by Talbot Bielefeldt from ISTE and Ruthmary and John Cradler from ESS. Their project, CARET, ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2003
Technology Infusion: The New Art of Curriculum Development presented by Jim Hirsch from the Plano School District in Plano, TX.
Nothing looked too interesting during Session III so I spent the hour or so wandering through the vendor area. Not much swag to collect, but I picked up some literature on ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2003
We had our first substantial snowfall in Minnesota last night and today. I didn't schedule a session for this morning figuring that I'd be at church with my family. As it turned out, I was busy blowing snow with my new snowblower (a Simplicity model 960E) and my family had ...
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