Comments on: Which Four Conferences? /2008/which-four-conferences/ less helpful Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenn /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-116638 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:00:21 +0000 /?p=839#comment-116638 Dan,
After attending the NCTM conference in Salt Lake, I would say definitely include that!

Such a huge range of options to sit in, technology, projects, everything on every topic.

It is absolutely worth going to.

]]> By: ken /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-116358 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:51:35 +0000 /?p=839#comment-116358 conference? puh.

It’s all about the unconference now.

Welcome to 2008.

That’s what I was told a short time ago.

]]> By: Tim S. /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-116057 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:08:24 +0000 /?p=839#comment-116057 I’m a homer, so I gotta go with School 2.1 (Jan 2009) run by practialtheory’s (and fellow Philly resident) Chris Lehmann. 2.0 was fabulous, looking forward to more of the same next year.

I know I am suppose to have 3 more. I’m not a Edubuff enough to even know the names of 3 other ones.

2.) a conference with Alfie Kohn would be great.

3.) ????

4.) ????

]]> By: Kate /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115871 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:04:43 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115871 Hmm…David Jakes came to my school this year. I was….unimpressed. I had high hopes of learning something, but I think he had prepared for a much noobier audience. He almost fell out of his chair because I knew what “RSS” stood for. And he was like, there’s this awesome thing called….del.icio.us! Why does he get to go to China?

Anyway this summer I’m going balls out to the 60 credit column on the pay chart. I am most looking forward to this summer institute.

]]> By: jeffreygene /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115689 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:04:55 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115689 come across to shanghai next fall for Learning 2.008. probably going to be the best conference i know of in asia over the next school year.

http://learning2cn.ning.com/

downsides:
1. ~24 hours of travel one way
2. jet lag
3. the cost of a round-trip ticket ain’t cheap
4. and visas to get into china are like 75usd
5. chinese pollution is the equivalent of smoking a pack a day.

upsides:
1. i’ll be giving a workshop there. but don’t think any readers are the target audience for my “baby steps into the classroom: rss readers and blogs” preso.
2. some pretty awesome web2.0 folks are coming out to headline. the list is on that ning site.
3. observing firsthand the capitalist revolution in china. shanghai nightlife is crazynuts.
4. i’ll buy you a drink atop the tallest hotel in asia, the shanghai hilton. flickr search it, i swear it looks just like the death star. i always get scared that darth vader is going to throw me over the balcony.
5. i’ll find you some crazy awesome local chinese food. i read that shanghai is famous for its xiaolong bao, mmm.

folks, if dan won’t come across the pacific you oughta! the upsides apply to the first three people to comment on my site. even though i haven’t posted in a freakin month…

]]> By: Druin /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115601 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:32:58 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115601 This summer’s PD for me…

1) AP Statistics Reading – 9 days of being surrounded by 550 stat teachers from around the globe, 7 days of reading exams. Fascinating to visit with so many different teachers, both college and HS, textbook authors, etc.

2) AVID week-long workshop – Amazing PD. Mornings are spent with the WICR strategies in your content strand. Best practices in math for me, of course…. Then afternoons are spent with my site team discussing issues within our own school and community.

3) AP Summer Institute – another amazing PD opportunity. APSIs are week long workshops that are available for the AP courses and Pre-AP courses. I’ve always come away from these excited about the upcoming year.

]]> By: Kate /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115392 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:17:03 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115392 Maybe you should organize a conference. I’d go!

]]> By: Benjamin Baxter /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115388 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:06:02 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115388 Sorry about that. I went for the bonus points and forgot about the question.

]]> By: dan /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115385 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:03:55 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115385 Good tips, people, thanks. My presentation just got the nod at Asilomar so that one’s automatically frontlisted. Filmmaking in the classroom is local enough and close enough to my heart to look into.

(Thanks, everyone except for Benjamin, I mean. Those are hypothetical sessions, man. Gimme some conferences.)

]]> By: Angie /2008/which-four-conferences/#comment-115372 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:18:54 +0000 /?p=839#comment-115372 Definitely the ASCD National Conference (bonus-next year is in Orlando).

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