Dry Erase Planning

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This week I had the honor to make a presentation at ELI in San Antonio with 4 remarkable women: Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Laura Blankenship, Barbara Ganley and Martha Burtis…”The Fear 2.0 Dream Team Bloghers” as Brian Lamb reportedly referred to us later in the week.

Our topic was Fear…the fear that we as educators, technologists, individuals [...]

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In a few weeks, I will have the pleasure and the privilege of presenting at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), with 4 other women teachers/technologists. I am honored to be a part of this extraordinary group of women, thinkers, and troublemakers (heh heh). The conference title and theme is “Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing [...]

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Last summer, at the IALLT Biennial conference, when I described the addition of parakeets and finches in the set up of our language center, someone remarked “Of course! How brilliant! The Cocktail Party Effect!.”
I never knew that there was a name for this, nor that it had a page in Wikipedia. I [...]

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(foto courtesy of VCom3D)
Catching up on reading part 2: Read about this innovation in the paper last week and am intrigued… To address the US military’s critical shortage of translators in Iraq, VCom 3D out of Florida has been contracted to create a suite of tools for our soldiers in Iraq that, using a video [...]

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