Middle School Matters

Say your school board wants to cut your pay, your state legislature wants to tax your health benefits by 3%, and your principal doesn’t want to spend money for you to attend a conference.  What do you do?  Attend an UnConference!  Edubloggercon is an unconference you can attend on the web.  Unlike Classroom 2.0 that has a preset agenda, UnConferences are an ad hoc gathering centered around the topics the attendees brainstorm in the opening session.  Best part?  You don’t have to be physically present to attend some of the sessions.  Some UnConferences will stream sessions out onto the web for remote viewers’ benefit.  Edubloggercon East is one such event coming up this Monday.  They’ve posted a Ustream link for Monday’s event and asked folks to watch for the #ebce10 hashtag on Twitter.  Or click here . . .

For those interested (and some do ask!) here’s a link to my notes from some of the sessions I attended this summer. Topics include: 10 Essential Tech Leadership Components, Virtual Schools, Interactive Digital Curricula, Remix: Blending Creative Content to Demonstrate Mastery of Classroom Content, Shakespeare Set Free – Digital Technology and the Teaching of the Bard, Information Literacy, Classroom 2.0 “Birds of a Feather Session, Distance Learning, Crap Detection, Using Google Apps in Education, Using Social Networking in World History, and Developing a World Class Assessment Piece.

Cover page with following table of contents can be found here: http://web.me.com/mcgirr/Summer_PD_Notes__ISTE__MiJEC____MSC_/index.html