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NECC Schedule

This day will largely be spent at Capitol Hill lobbying, so I will be “mobile”. Here is my feed:

My NECC Schedule

Below is my calendar for NECC 2009 | National Educational Computing Conference put on by ISTE which will be starting next week. I will begin my travels to Washington, D.C. on Thursday afternoon with a train ride down to the San Francisco Bay area to spend the night there  before leaving by plane for the Capitol.

I will be live blogging many of the events I attend. The blog will appear at http://inpractice.edublogs.org, but I will likely mirror it at http://mizmercer.edublogs.org and http://mercertraining.edublogs.org.

I will be spending most of Tuesday on Capitol Hill as part of a lobbying effort by ISTE. I will be communicating solely by cell phone that day, so you can follow me at http://twitter.com/alicemercer or http://www.plurk.com/mizmercer.

Other places to find me and my media:

• My Flickr stream

• My Page - NECC Ning

• My Microblog will have informal stuff and postings from my cell

Welcome! We’re going to use this post to “work on” during the session which is schedule at 9:00 a.m. PDT.

Embedding images is easy with a visual editor, but don’t let that code freak you out!

Photo credit: 177 of 365 - blind justice on Flickr

It was a fun session, and a great turnout (about 20) on Friday night (for me at least, lots of Aussies there for their Saturday a.m.). You can listen to the session at:

• EdublogsLive! Elluminate.com session on VoiceThread: a 21st Century K-W-L

My links for the session are at:

• Links  for “Voice Thread Preso 6/19/2009″ on Diigo

And in response to the question about rubrics for VoiceThread:

• rubric AND voicethread - Google Search

• VoiceThread Rubric (pdf)

• Digitally Speaking / Voicethread

• VoiceThreadRubric.pdf (application/pdf Object)

And here is info about pricing for educators. I may have misspoke because it looks like the Pro-educator account will put you in ed.voicethread.com which is not as “open” an environment as some educators would like:

• VoiceThread - Pricing - K-12

The following is a list of bookmarks to go along with my presentation on Edublogs Live! about VoiceThread. You can access this session on Elluminate at 7 p.m. PDT on Friday June 19. Hope I’ll see you there!

• 7 Things about VoiceThread pdf

• 7 Things You Should Know About VoiceThread | EDUCAUSE

• VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos

• Voicethread 4 Education » home

  Examples of VoiceThreads that others have made.

• VoiceThread - Digital Library - 3rd Grade Language Arts from Alice Mercer

  An example of a VoiceThread I did with students about Friendship that was included in the VoiceThread Library of Uses

• VoiceThread - Third Graders on Friendship

  The actual VoiceThread in my example

• VoiceThread - Digital Library

• Voicethread 4 Education » Classroom Partners

  Classes looking to collaborate on VoiceThreads

• Instructify » Blog Archive » Instructifeature: A K-W-L chart for the 21st century using VoiceThread

  An article explaining how I made the Third Graders Friendship video
  

• Making the case for VoiceThread and interactive digital storytelling » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
  The case one teacher in Oklahoma made with her district for using VoiceThread. She is keeping the VoiceThread private, which is one option. I usually choose comment moderation (which means I have to approve any comments that come in), instead of making it private.

• Thinking about simplicity in the context of professional development » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
  This is a post on simplicity in Professional Development that outlines the case for using VoiceThread as a professional development tool and a tool in the classroom.

The Edublogs Live! session I am doing on VoiceThread: A 21st Century K-W-L has been changed from Thursday 6/18 to Friday 6/19 at 7 p.m. PDT. Hope to see you then!