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  1. just dropped off my son for a week at bayport scout camp in jamaica, va. . .hope the weather is good!
  2. plowing thru the 100's of emails in my inbox from being at NECC last week....
  3. @cybercie hi this is anita harris from sussex, va!
  4. #necc #necc09 is etherpad available as an app on the iphone?
  5. #necc #necc09 got to use etherpad again today...such a cool tool....thanks Kathy Schrock!
  6. #necc #necc09 questions asked were what is the main idea, what audience did it want 2 reach, & were the methods used 2 create it effective?
  7. #necc #necc09 Kathy Schrock also shared the responses to the video from the view of a student, parent, administrator, teacher and tech coord
  8. #necc #necc09 Kathy Schrock shared the robinhood school video on Engage Me
  9. #necc #necc09 and how to use media to inform and persuade to tell that story of 21st century learning
  10. #necc #necc09 ACT2 says we must move teachers beyond the role of facilitators 2 become collaborators in learning each and every day
  11. #necc #necc09 Why do Challenge Based Learning? It is all about the students. They drive it , create it, work it, publish it and just do it!
  12. #necc #necc09 students asked "How much homework do you have each night/ Answer was "We don't have homework. We work on our projects"
  13. #necc #necc09 kids come up with a solution with an action and then the assessment, then publish their samples and reflection
  14. #necc #necc09 Challenged Based Learning framework incl big idea, essential ?, the challenge, guiding ?'s, activities and resources on web
  15. #necc #necc09 Challenge Based Learning was all about immersing kids in deep content and solving something with a global consequence
  16. #necc #necc09 hard to manage because kids didn't have the technology to do it and took lots of time from teachers to create and implement
  17. #necc #necc09 last part of the project was called Challenged Based Learning and showed project-based learning is at the heart of it all
  18. #necc #necc09 what is the pedagogy and what changes in the classroom when you have these mobile devices? ACOT started this all in 85-97
  19. #necc #necc09 mobile devices offer opportunities to develop apps that allow students to come to school and not be shut down
  20. #necc #necc09 K-12 resources are available from 9 states on iTunesU - go Virginia - you ROCK!