TIES Technology Conference 2013

I am excited to be presenting at the upcoming TIES Technology Conference December 16 and 17.

TPT Event - Is School Enough?: Engaged Learning in the 21st Century Classroom and Beyond

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On November 21, I will be attending the Is School Enough?: Engaged Learning in the 21st Century Classroom and Beyond event at the Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) Studios.

As a follow-up to the PBS documentary of the same title, this event will feature panel and audience discussion around the topic of allowing students to solve real-world problems and the value of engaging in projects outside of school.

TIES 2013 Fast Forward: Transforming Pedagogy with Technology

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I will be presenting at the TIES Technology Conference in mid December.  This year's theme is Fast Forward: Transforming Pedagogy with Technology.

I will be doing two presentations:
Personalized Professional Development and the iPad
Bridging the Digital Divide with a Racial Equity Lens

Presentation resources will be posted on the blog closer to the conference date.

EdCampMSP

Kudos to Osseo for organizing and hosting EdCampMSP tomorrow!

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Looking forward to chance to get together with instructional technology leaders, gurus, and advocates from other districts and finding out into what's happening their other places and tapping into their experiences and expertise.

EdCamp MSP

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Do you live in central Minnesota and want to get together with other educational colleagues and educational technology advocates to build a collaborative, constructivist unconference schedule?

Sign up for EdCampMSP hosted by Osseo on October 11.

Tapping Into The Experience Of ISTE Attendees

Crowdsourcing power

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ISTE conferences that I have attended.

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Seven Days Until ISTE 2013

 I found this handy free embeddable countdown timer for websites and blogs from timeanddate.com (http://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/freecountdown.html).  The countdown timer is also available as a website-based timer (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/create).

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The countdown to any date timer has an easy-to-use simple interface. Simply choose the countdown design, enter the timer title, select the date and time, and time zone of the event and click the Create Countdown button.  Simple as that!

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The website-based countdown to any date timer produces an easy-to-read countdown that stays active as long as you keep the webpage open.

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Timeanddate.com also offers a free online timer with a easy-to-use interface interface as well.  You can assign a name to the time, enter the amount of time, and select a sound to play when time runs out.

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The timer interface produced is easy to read and with the ability to create additional timer would enable a teacher to use this timer for station rotations without needing to reset and restart a timer.

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The third free online tool available at timeanddate.com is a stopwatch timer.

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The stopwatch timer even saves splits, which can be labeled onscreen. This could be handy if 

you want to time several students doing the same task and compare elapsed time or speed.

Overall, there are many handy tools available at this website for teachers to use in multiple ways in the classroom,  on a mobile device at their favorite sporting event, and maybe even to remind them of an anniversary or birthday coming up!