Conference planning…bring your cigar

This post was originally published on the MACUL Conference Blog.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
By my estimates, the total number of miles walked by participants by the end of each MACUL conference equals 2.75 times the distance from the earth to the moon.  I mean, really, there’s a [...]

TechCamp 2009 is on the stove…

It’s been since September that I actually posted something besides a Weekly Web Wonder.  Somehow I just have a hard time getting the thoughts that work their way through my head out onto the screen.  C’est la vie…
In any case, I want to make sure to start giving coverage to this year’s TechCamp.  Last year [...]

New Workshops @ the Berrien RESA

Finally got around to getting some workshops scheduled for this fall.  You can see all technology workshops being offered at the Berrien RESA right here.
In October I’ll be leading a new class trying to cover some of the many, many web 2.0 tools that can easily be used by educators.  Connecting & Collaborating with Web [...]

TechCamp Reflections

It would be very wrong for me not to give a wrap-up of TechCamp, which has already slipped into the summer fog of memory even though it was only two weeks ago!  Thanks to the Michigan DEN blog for the gracious write-up.  (And thanks for the heads-up, Emma.)
From the evaluations I recieved, it sounds like [...]

Day of Preparation…

Whew!  What a day!  After another week off from work, I returned today for a get-everything-set-up-for-TechCamp marathon.  Now there are four wireless labs in the conference rooms at Berrien RESA and each piece is in place…well, I hope it’s in place.
I created a quick Introduction Video for participants to watch just before the first session.  [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: To the Limit

July has come and gone…I’ve stayed away from technology for quite a while now, but it’s time to move things along.  TechCamp is two and a half weeks away and I’m pleased to say that we’re booked solid with participants…filled to the gills.  That is so sweet…
We have even started a waiting list, which makes [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: Ben Rimes…will you Read, Please?

It’s not that I don’t think Ben Rimes isn’t going to read this post, but that Read, Please is the title of one of the two sessions he’ll be leading at TechCamp in August.  It’s great to have Ben at TechCamp…he’s a world-famous blogger as well as a local teacher and all-around super guy.  In [...]

TechCamp Starting Lineup…check out the schedule

With two months to go, the schedule for the first annual TechCamp is in place.  It seems a lot closer than two months since I’ll be off most of July, but it’s good to have the peices ready to fall together.  Rather than trying to fit everything in a narrow column, it would be best [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: From Toy to Tool with Liz Kolb

This is a sweet piece of information…TechCamp welcomes Liz Kolb on Wednesday, August 20.  Liz is an up and coming name in instructional technology whose focus is on using cell phones as tools in the classroom.  Here’s the description for her soon-to-be-available book, Toys to Tools.
Toys for Tools discuses how to enhance learning by using [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: Cindy Liscow is Telling Digital Stories

I’m really looking forward to Cindy Liscow’s session, Digital Storytelling. For one thing, Cindy, who teaches at South Haven’s L.C. Mohr High School, is a great teacher who is willing to try out what might be considered weird and wacky. She’s not afraid of a challenge.
Take this for example…this past spring she [...]