I am in Atlanta at the NECC 2007 . Currently, I have the pleasure of sitting in an Advanced Blogging workshop with David Warlick - Advanced Blogging or Sidebar Envy. I am excited about being in this workshop. I mean c’mon! I’m sitting in a workshop with David Warlick! How lucky can a geek girl get?
The workshop is not just about blogging, but about all the “things” that go with it. Hence the name, “sidebar envy.” Even better, the woman who actually coined the phrase “sidebar envy”, Sharon Peters, is sitting in the workshop as well.
Web 2.0 is something I’ve heard a lot about and of course using {who hasn’t?} for quite some time now. Now…I’m hearing a new term called “School 2.0″ The concept of building an entire school’s technology infrastructure around Web 2.0 concepts and applications sounds exciting. During the first hour of the workshop, Christopher Lehman of the Science Leadership Academy in Philly spoke. His entire school is a model school for this School 2.0 concept. Every course at SLA is set up in Moodle…Every student has a blog…Most teachers and the principal blog on a daily basis.
The primary thing I’d like to take away from this workshop is the ability to begin just one small aspect of this. I hope to gain some insights, tools, and strategies to bring aspects of all of this back to Spring Branch.
For a list of all the great sites gathered from this {and other} workshops, go to the EdTech’s bookmarks on del.icio.us.
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