Educating the Dragon

Just letting you are know I have just survived my third ‘blue screen of death’ this week. I really should let someone look at my machine….eh?

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IWBNet has been invited to take its IWB Conference to New Zealand on 24, 25 and 26 September 2009 in conjunction with the host school: Westlake Girls High School.

Imagine if you will, an expo centre dedicated t oiwb use. Every possible, conceivable flavour and variety; RF, IR, Bluetooth, hard board, soft touch, one touch, two touch, dualboard.

If I went to the iwbNet conference here’s what I would want to do.

Have each exhibitor bring along their top classroom practitioner and stand ready by their boards.

Round One : quick fire tool

“Ok, show me…. a spinning dice”

“Show me… a topographical map of NZ”

Show me…”

Round Two: The Activity

Create an activity about the planets that dremonstrates ‘drag and drop’

Create an activity for Te Reo that uses ordering.

Create an activity….

Round Three: Easiteach

This round would one of knowledge and skill for the teachers whose boards use the generic ‘Easiteach’ software.

Go….

Do you have ideas for rounds or questions to be included in rounds 1-3?

Now is your time to share…

I love it when I run a workshop and then get out of it as much as I put in…. I hope to blog further about the session later but I just wanted to share this video one of the attendees talked about.

This is what I was looking for.

Ze Frank and his little Tedtalk about the Web.

Its 19 minutes 42 seconds so find yourself a nice drink.. perhaps some crumble and custard.. sit back and take a load off for a few minutes. It’s Monday after all and you have the rest of the week to get all stressed out and worked up.

Enjoy.

As I wondered through the internet. Looking for something or other.. I forget what I came across Corey Vidal and inparticular this video of his.