Archive for 'ISTE MS-SIG' Category
“Getting Started with Teacher Professional Development in SL”
30 June 2008
Today, I facilitated a discussion entitled “Getting Started with Teacher Professional Development in Second Life” for the NECC Conference. This meeting was attended by face-to-face participants who dropped by the Second Life Playground at NECC as well as avatars at the ISTE Island in Second Life. I used a headset to talk in voice to […]
Maintaining Intellectual Freedom - ISTE Social 1-17-08
18 January 2008Last night, ISTE invited us back to continue Tuesday’s discussion about maintaining intellectual freedom. As we gathered around a virtual campfire, attendees took notecards from Tuesday’s event, new discussion questions, and a link to Doug’s website. Despite a sim restart about halfway through, we had an excellent conversation. Folks shared experiences about filtering in their […]
New ISTE SIG Pavillion in Second Life
8 November 2007Tonight, I attended the regular Thursday night social and campfire discussion meeting on the ISTE Island (www.iste.org) in Second Life. During the social, I began chatting with Kittygloom Cassady (in real life, Jennifer Ragan-Fore, Director of General Membership Programs at ISTE). She brought me over to the new SIG Pavillion which will soon be open. […]
ISTE Media Specialists Special Interest Group (SIGMS) Program
19 September 2007On September 18th, the ISTE Media Specials Special Interest Group (SIGMS), with the Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries & Information Services, hosted a program entitled “In Command! Teaching Kids and Teens to Build and Manage Their Own Information Spaces And…Learn to Manage Themselves in Those Spaces”. The program was co-presented by David Loertscher, a […]
2007 NECC Conference in Atlanta
24 June 2007For the next few days, I will be attending ISTE’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Georgia. As the incoming chair-elect of the Media Specialists SIG (SIGMS), I look forward to meeting many of SIGMS members. Also, I will meet many Second Life colleagues at various events - many of whom I have only […]
Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies Program - 6-12-07
10 June 2007Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into Educational Web Resources
Presented in the “Second Life” Virtual Reality Environment
The ISTE Media Specialists SIG sponsored a program, “Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into Educational Web Resources” in the virtual reality environment Second Life (www.secondlife.com). This online program took place on Tuesday, June 12th. It was highly successful, maxing out the sim to […]