Comments on: Learnin’ at BLC http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: neo.phyt.us » The excitement is palpable http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-28157 neo.phyt.us » The excitement is palpable Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:00:40 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-28157 [...] School supply lists are published, the floors are waxed and buffed to a high gloss and new teacher orientation starts Monday. It’s that time of year where my hopes and expectations are kicking into high gear and I have grand plans of ways to support the teachers with integrating technology into their classes. Will Richardson expressed a lot of what I feel with some of his thoughts on BLC. [...] [...] School supply lists are published, the floors are waxed and buffed to a high gloss and new teacher orientation starts Monday. It’s that time of year where my hopes and expectations are kicking into high gear and I have grand plans of ways to support the teachers with integrating technology into their classes. Will Richardson expressed a lot of what I feel with some of his thoughts on BLC. [...]

]]> By: Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27744 Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:19:35 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27744 [...] Ewan Mcintosh…Will Richardson called him rock star. He pretty much is. I just love the way in which he crystallizes complex ideas and makes them simple or least I’m able to ponder them a bit more. See Will’s example about his photography lesson. Ewan and I had a great conversation about the lack of myths in North American education. I hope he blogs about it if he hasn’t already. I certainly think that our curriculum and education systems are much more closely tied than that of US. [...] [...] Ewan Mcintosh…Will Richardson called him rock star. He pretty much is. I just love the way in which he crystallizes complex ideas and makes them simple or least I’m able to ponder them a bit more. See Will’s example about his photography lesson. Ewan and I had a great conversation about the lack of myths in North American education. I hope he blogs about it if he hasn’t already. I certainly think that our curriculum and education systems are much more closely tied than that of US. [...]

]]> By: Not So Distant Future » “Exuberant discovery” http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27620 Not So Distant Future » “Exuberant discovery” Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:46:55 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27620 [...] After reading several writers in my bloglines this morning, ideas are racing through my head and I feel like I am moving closer.   Thanks also to Doug Johnson’s post on exuberant discovery,  Ewan McIntosh’s insightful post about ingenuity, Will Richardson’s comments about passionate learning, and Mabry MS’s logo, [...] [...] After reading several writers in my bloglines this morning, ideas are racing through my head and I feel like I am moving closer.   Thanks also to Doug Johnson’s post on exuberant discovery,  Ewan McIntosh’s insightful post about ingenuity, Will Richardson’s comments about passionate learning, and Mabry MS’s logo, [...]

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27605 Ewan McIntosh Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:48:25 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27605 Just keep practising those shots, now! I had a hoot and have no shame in saying that I felt really sad when you all started to drift off Friday morning and midday. When I was on my own, though, on Friday afternoon I had Rosa, Miguel, Isaac and Consuelo come up to me and we just took it off from there. We went for a cracking dinner, oohed and ahhhed at the ridiculous queues for Harry Potter and then spent yesterday morning and afternoon on the canoe, having the best and cheapest lunch any of us have had and eating the hugest ice creams - how it fit into our tummies I'll never know. Marco said something that is typical Marco and typical sanfernandoesque, I think: amor. I think part of me "fell in love" with the connections to be made F2F, with the people I met again and for the first time. Sitting here in Iceland, not sure if it's 2.20am or 7.20 am, I'm feeling the same kind of melancholic pull that I last felt when I left my wife for longer than a week at a time. Amor. It's rare we can use words like that to describe our work. I'm just happy that I can, and sad that we can't all live in the same big house all the time. Or paddle that canoe. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/866810066/ I'll be there next year - see you then ;-) Just keep practising those shots, now! I had a hoot and have no shame in saying that I felt really sad when you all started to drift off Friday morning and midday. When I was on my own, though, on Friday afternoon I had Rosa, Miguel, Isaac and Consuelo come up to me and we just took it off from there. We went for a cracking dinner, oohed and ahhhed at the ridiculous queues for Harry Potter and then spent yesterday morning and afternoon on the canoe, having the best and cheapest lunch any of us have had and eating the hugest ice creams – how it fit into our tummies I’ll never know.

Marco said something that is typical Marco and typical sanfernandoesque, I think: amor. I think part of me “fell in love” with the connections to be made F2F, with the people I met again and for the first time. Sitting here in Iceland, not sure if it’s 2.20am or 7.20 am, I’m feeling the same kind of melancholic pull that I last felt when I left my wife for longer than a week at a time.

Amor. It’s rare we can use words like that to describe our work. I’m just happy that I can, and sad that we can’t all live in the same big house all the time. Or paddle that canoe.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/866810066/

I’ll be there next year – see you then ;-)

]]> By: K Tabor http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27583 K Tabor Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:20:37 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27583 You say about Torres's students - "In a word, they were incredulous that teachers would come to an event like this and sit in long rows of chairs dutifully listening to whoever was in the front presenting. They talked about how people were coming up to them asking them for technical assistance, and how, in general, they were awestruck at how far ahead of everyone else they seemed to be. It was an amazing moment for me, to hear their reflections, because I found them so powerful. They just couldn’t understand it." What's not to understand? We want to do this stuff. We need equipment in our hands to try it out. We want to work hands on always, but... I guess that we understand the limitations of 600 people in attendance. While the discussions were always intertesting, I too grew tired of the marching rows of chairs and the powerpoint/keynote presentations - and my knees ached from sitting. I never sit that much in a day of teaching, and I would never ask my students to sit that much. But could you put a camera and a DigAudio recorder of some kind in everyone's hand? I have a cellphone that takes crappy pictures and no wireless internet connection for it- yet I can see how my students will use flickr. I would love to have a Chicago conference with laptops, video and digital cameras, ipods with microphones, server space, FinalCut, iMovie, Garageband and Audacity - the whole megillah - that might be feasable with 25 or 50 (reaching the edge of credulity) of us. But with 600? So we sat, and we listened, and we tried to imagine how it will feel with the tools in our hands. And we asked technical questions, not because we are "far behind" but because we just want to know if the work is possible with our old camcorders (because that is not what they had in their hands) and that is what we have to work with. I have come away from BLC with great ideas - now I still need to teach myself to do it. You say about Torres’s students – “In a word, they were incredulous that teachers would come to an event like this and sit in long rows of chairs dutifully listening to whoever was in the front presenting. They talked about how people were coming up to them asking them for technical assistance, and how, in general, they were awestruck at how far ahead of everyone else they seemed to be. It was an amazing moment for me, to hear their reflections, because I found them so powerful. They just couldn’t understand it.” What’s not to understand? We want to do this stuff. We need equipment in our hands to try it out. We want to work hands on always, but…

I guess that we understand the limitations of 600 people in attendance. While the discussions were always intertesting, I too grew tired of the marching rows of chairs and the powerpoint/keynote presentations – and my knees ached from sitting. I never sit that much in a day of teaching, and I would never ask my students to sit that much. But could you put a camera and a DigAudio recorder of some kind in everyone’s hand? I have a cellphone that takes crappy pictures and no wireless internet connection for it- yet I can see how my students will use flickr.

I would love to have a Chicago conference with laptops, video and digital cameras, ipods with microphones, server space, FinalCut, iMovie, Garageband and Audacity – the whole megillah – that might be feasable with 25 or 50 (reaching the edge of credulity) of us. But with 600? So we sat, and we listened, and we tried to imagine how it will feel with the tools in our hands. And we asked technical questions, not because we are “far behind” but because we just want to know if the work is possible with our old camcorders (because that is not what they had in their hands) and that is what we have to work with.

I have come away from BLC with great ideas – now I still need to teach myself to do it.

]]> By: David Jakes http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27554 David Jakes Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:51:31 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27554 Walked in my place after getting back from Boston, turned on the tv, went to the White Sox game, and guess what? Bottom of the 8th...and you could hear it. Ba ba ba! The week was great... Walked in my place after getting back from Boston, turned on the tv, went to the White Sox game, and guess what? Bottom of the 8th…and you could hear it. Ba ba ba!

The week was great…

]]> By: Jason Hando http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27552 Jason Hando Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:26:11 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27552 I wonder if this deep learning you undertook, 80% of your waking hours, can be replicated by the ordinary teacher or is it reserved for people privileged enough to travel to conferences and build a solid group of like-minded deep-thinking educators? If we could just replicate what you individually have gained from this experience, and make it possible on a mass scale, then we would have a revolution on our hands! And I know plenty of teachers that would soak it up like a sponge. I wonder if this deep learning you undertook, 80% of your waking hours, can be replicated by the ordinary teacher or is it reserved for people privileged enough to travel to conferences and build a solid group of like-minded deep-thinking educators?

If we could just replicate what you individually have gained from this experience, and make it possible on a mass scale, then we would have a revolution on our hands! And I know plenty of teachers that would soak it up like a sponge.

]]> By: Diane Hammond http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/comment-page-1/#comment-27544 Diane Hammond Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:51:38 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/learnin-at-blc/#comment-27544 Thank you so much from all of us who "also attended" this wonderful conference through the RSS feeds you and the other edubloggers threw out for us! I never really understood the power of tagging until NECC2007 but it has transformed the way I will take part in conferences (physical attendance aside) from now on. I had thought my brain might be wired in too linear a fashion to really "get" the backchannelling that has been taking place, but either it isn't or it's being re-wired through these experiences. So...where are "we" going next? Thank you so much from all of us who “also attended” this wonderful conference through the RSS feeds you and the other edubloggers threw out for us! I never really understood the power of tagging until NECC2007 but it has transformed the way I will take part in conferences (physical attendance aside) from now on. I had thought my brain might be wired in too linear a fashion to really “get” the backchannelling that has been taking place, but either it isn’t or it’s being re-wired through these experiences. So…where are “we” going next?

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