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NECC 2009 Panel

Replied Dec. 19, 2008

Our Colleague Whose Home Was Destroyed by One of the California Fires

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Grant Wrangler

 

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Karen Henke commented on Steve Hargadon's event 'EduBloggerCon 2009 & Classroom 2.0 Meetup'June 16
I plan to be there in the morning.
Karen Henke is attending Steve Hargadon's eventJune 16
EduBloggerCon 2009 & Classroom 2.0 Meetup at Walter E. Washington Convention Center
June 27, 2009 from 8am to 11pm
The all-day "unconference" for educational bloggers and members of Classroom 2.0. This is a free event with the space donated by ISTE.org. More information at www.EduBloggerCon.com!
Larry Wilcox replied to Karen Henke's discussion 'Green Computing in Schools'June 10
There is also the computer sharing methodology. One that seems to be up and coming is Fiddlehead at www.myfiddlehead.com. They offer a 30 day trial after which you can return or pay. This is kind of a combination of Windows and Linux but on steroids.

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Hometown:
San Francisco, CA
School / Work Affiliation
Nimble Press/Grant Wrangler
About Me:
I founded Nimble Press in 1999 and like to work with both big companies and small organizations that make a difference in schools. I'm hoping that our little product, Grant Wrangler, will become one of those change agents. When I'm not reading and writing, I'm either dancing, cooking or gardening. And that's why I love San Francisco. I can do all those things in any season and any day of the week.
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http://www.longtaillearners.com
Website:
http://www.grantwrangler.com
We just added a grant headline feeder to Grant Wrangler. Now, any site can post our rotating headlines. They're updated every two weeks with the latest featured grants. It's a great way to add something dynamic to a web page. Check it out on Grant Wrangler: How To. We also did this for our blog headlines. You can see the rotating headlines in the right column of our home page Grant Wrangler. What do you think? Will this be helpful to people?

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Set the Data Free

I'm at the Web 2.0 Conference here in San Francisco, my second year attending. Last year felt very entrepreneurial and this year feels a little more serious and corporate. A lot of the products are starting to shift from a focus on the end user to enterprise deployments. Still no one from education here. Even though under 20 are the early adopters and most adventurous users of many of the technology, no one puts that together with what they do in school.

What are the trends this year?

Socia… Continue

Posted on April 24, 2008 at 3:37pm —

Karen Henke

Web 2.0 in Education International Points of View

In addition to the amazing speakers on the stage at the CoSN 7th Annual International Symposium, we had a fascinating discussion at my table. We had people from around the country and around the world, sharing our response to the speakers.

Presented with many examples of how Web 2.0 tools were changing teaching and learning around the globe, we kept hearing how the tools stopped short of widespread adoption. Most of the Web 2.0 tools such as facebook, myspace, blog… Continue

Posted on April 10, 2008 at 4:00pm —

Karen Henke

Barriers to Personalized Learning in Schools

At the CoSN conference in March 2008, I led a birds of a feather discussion about Long Tail Learning. Our discussion hit on trust, student privacy, and school district liability. We came up with a list of barriers/challenges:
# The classroom model of traditional education: 1 teacher, 25-30 students
# The Carnegie units system of measuring learning by time and place
# The ability for students to self identify
# The la… Continue

Posted on April 6, 2008 at 3:53pm —

Karen Henke

Disaster Planning and the Role of Technology

Last October, I contacted some friends in San Diego to find out how they were doing when the wild fires raged through the county. I learned that technology played a key role in the school district's ability to communicate with families and continue learning despite a county-wide evacuation.

I got to thinking about what role technology plays when the unexpected happens. I came up with 10 lessons learned in speaking with Bob Gravina of Poway Unified, Sheryl A… Continue

Posted on March 20, 2008 at 10:18am —

Karen Henke

Can We Increase the Wisdom of the Crowd?

One of the key principles of Web 2.0 is that through widespread collaboration and mass participation, the “wisdom of the crowds” emerges. Think Wikipedia’s self correcting
system.


Long before myspace, youtube, and Internet forums existed, people engaged in dialogue to expand understanding, test ideas and learn. From Socratic dialogue to the best classrooms of today, educatio


… Continue

Posted on July 30, 2007 at 5:17pm —

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At 9:55am on June 23, 2009, Barbara Bray said…
Hi Karen - yes, I'll be at Educonn on Saturday. I wouldn't miss it. So many wonderful people to connect with. It would be great to catch up with you. I plan to join COSN - been asked to present so thinking it's time for me to do that. I would love a copy of the compedieum. Thanks, Barbara
At 11:33pm on December 17, 2008, Colette Cassinelli said…
Any news on the NECC panel session? One of my proposals was accepted so I will be attending.
At 11:38am on August 6, 2008, james bosco said…
Yep, that is a very valuable piece of work. Jenkins and his group at MIT are doing some really excellent work. I have several conversations with him and he knows about our work and has been very supportive.
BTW, glad to see you resurrecting john dewey. While he could have used some of your editing in his writing his ideas with regard to the nature of education and schooling are as relavant today as they were back in the early part of the last century. Dewey was really done in by his disciple William Kilpatrick who was the popularizer and bastardizer of his ideas. While Dewey is considered by many as the father of progressive education it was really Dewey as glibly interpreted by Kilpatrick which really shaped the progressive school movement.

No one said my picture looks cute. Can I borrow your hat for my picture?? Might help!
At 9:43am on February 22, 2008, Laura Webber said…
Thanks! That hat of yours rocks!
At 5:40am on February 22, 2008, Laura Webber said…
Hi Karen,

I just subscribed to Grant Wrangler and added you as a friend. I am the grants coordinator for an new charter high school in Buffalo, NY and this looks like a great resource. Thanks!
 
 

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