Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Imagine my disappointment when I arrived in Atlanta the Friday BEFORE NECC began to attend the Edublogger Con and NECC, and Edublogs was experiencing major difficulties!! I did not blog any of the sessions I had wanted too. It really is okay though because I discovered much of my conference time was spent being “star-struck” [...]

“What’s New? What’s Coming” SCASA Summer Leadership Institute, June 17-22, 2007 Myrtle Beach, SC This post stems from a presentation I will be giving at the South Carolina Association of School Administrators Annual Summer Leadership Conference on Monday, June 18, 2007. My presentation titled “What’s New? What’s Happening? is designed to showcase blogs and podcasts [...]

Have you heard about this book, Everything is Miscellaneous? I read about it today on Teacher Librarian Ning, and they pointed to a video where the author does a one-hour presentation on the premise of the book. It’s really thought provoking, and really questions the organization of the library among other things. Best, its pretty [...]

In the news today–I saw references to it frequently in my aggregator from Fox, CNN, and MSNBC that state assessment programs are not all equal! All I  have to say is IT’S ABOUT TIME! For the longest our state has been pegged as uneducated and having students who continuously perform the lowest or next to [...]

Sorry Dave, I had just done exactly what you said NOT to do right before I read this: So what do you hope to learn at NECC? No need to list sessions from your Conference Planner — just share in your blogs, tagged with necc, necc07, or necc2007, why you’re going — what you hope [...]

Just in case you are curious, this is what I have tentatively planned for NECC 2007. I still have not totally committed so my planner is a mess of conflicts! Of course this may change multiple times BEFORE the actual conference gets here in just two and a half weeks. I have included thoughts or [...]

I have so much more time in the summer to read and enjoy stuff. Today stumbled across Gizmo! OMG you must check it out! Just the thought of what it could do! I am just going to point you to a sample I came across today. Thanks, Susan, for posting that.

If so, let me join your club.  But I read about LoudBlog on another blog I follow and they swear by its simpleness! Four clicks away to posting a podcast! Thanks Wes Fryer for a great post to this.  I can’t wait to try it out. I’ll have to return here to let you know.