This week Heidi and I will drive down to Orlando to attend the Florida Educational Technology Conference. My friend Jen Wagner has given me a list of wonderful people to meet and I am looking forward to a dose of inspiration. Since I am obsessed with the wiiMotes I will undoubtedly make it my goal to find someone who has experimented with the $50 whiteboards. I plan to get the vendor reaction to the wiiMote. I will also see if I can find an XO laptops demo as ours have yet to arrive, and I will look into some eLearning options such as Moodle. Who knows what else I might learn. Our seven hour drive will be packed with podcasts. I do my best listening on long drives. We return on Saturday and then Sunday I plan to connect with Jen who will be in Philly for EduCon! Can you say technology integration? My who week will be full of eating, sleeping and breathing technology. My only regret? Missing Women of Web 2 on Tuesday evening. Alas we will still be in the car.
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First time at the FETC
January 20, 2008Following XO Laptop News
January 2, 2008 I am very interested in learning how the XO is being used worldwide by children and teachers, and here at home in the USA. Here is a site promising to keep us informed, the One Laptop Per Child News. It’s very new but the posts appear to be informative and even fascinating. Read the post about ‘cow power’ in India. Very clever. Now if we could only connect all spin class bicycles to a similar device then perhaps we could produce our own green energy by the sweat of our brow. It never ceases to amaze me how much energy we Americans expend on exercise solely for personal improvement. If all of the New Years resolutions included producing green energy while working out it might motivate more people to continue throughout the year. Now that I’m way off topic, what if the cost of belonging to a gym was mitigated by the amount of energy you produced to reduce the electric bill? Just a thought.
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